This week will find the trotters and pacers in action on Friday (December 30) and Saturday night (December 31), with the Saturday New Year’s Eve card getting underway at 5 p.m.
Looking at Friday’s program, the featured trot is a $3,000 affair that finds Style Element bringing consistent resent form to the fray and getting the slightest of calls. The 5-year-old daughter of Broadway Hall and the Yankee Glide mare Now From Then is owned and trained by Bob Johnson with Lemoyne Svendsen once again handling the lines.
From her last four trips to the post, Style Element has come away with a win, two seconds and a third-place finish while doing all her work at this same level. The victory came on December 1, as she played the role of stalker for the half, came calling at mid-stretch and was up for the length tally as a 6-1 shot that evening.
In her most recent try, the Johnson performer finished with interest to dead-heat for the place money with the odds-on Thatsomebracciola, while 12-1 K D Amazin Spirit was taking bows at double digits following the mile.
Aston Boko should be a major player with a mistake-free mile for Marco Rios and pilot Rich Wojcio, while Betty Elizabeth is a multiple stakes-winner who is owned, trained and was bred by Lisa Wilson-Caposio with Tony Succarotte at the controls.
Rounding out the field are Eggwhite Inmy Beer; Chaxie; The Goose, to be handled by Scott Cisco; Carpathian Hooray with Jim Lackey; Exquisite Gem, who will have Dave Siegel guiding; Connie’s Lady with James Kennedy; and K D Nicol, who leaves from the second tier with Keith Willey.
