Case in point: Tracys Song. The 8 year old Astreos mare
scored her eighth consecutive victory at Monticello Raceway on Monday
afternoon, March 11th with Bruce Aldrich, Jr. at the controls.
With her usual front-running style, Tracys Song out-footed
her competition away from the gate from the six hole and grabbed command before
the quarter mile timer read :28.4.Then challenged on the outside, first
by Jkdiamondsnpearls ( Zeke Parker), and then by Skyway Hanover
(Austin Siegelman) , Tracys Song kept rebuffing each
confrontation and held on to a neck victory over Skyway Hanover in
a time of 1:57 which is the mare’s seasonal best clocking.
“She’s just a gritty mare who not only knows how to win, but
likes doing it,” driver Bruce Aldrich Jr. said of Tracys Song after their
victory. “The field closed in on her on the final turn but when she
straightened for home we opened up some daylight and needed every bit of it to
hold off Skyway Hanover. I kept urging her and she kept digging in.”
Now Tracy’s Song’s eight wins are just one behind season’s
leader Artstanding for most victories by a Harness horse in North America this
year.
Trained by Bob Lounsbury for owner Nancy Fugure, Tracys Song
paid $3.60 for win.
Earlier this year at the Mighty M Tracys Song was the
stalwart in the Mighty M’s Name Your Price Claiming Series winning each of her
divisions as well as the series finale. However, in those contests she
started out racing with a $4000 tag and finished the four-week
series as a $6000 claimer.
On March 11th Tracey’s Song raced with an $8000
claiming tag.
