The 8 year old daughter of Astreos, won for the 14th
consecutive time at Monticello Raceway last Monday (April 29) but she was hard
pressed to do it, barely staving off a hard challenge to win by a head over a
racetrack softened by rain.
“She (Tracys Song) got the job done but she came out of the
race a little sore,” trainer Bob Lounsbury acknowledged. “We decided to skip a
week and we turned her out in the fresh green grass.
“The first time we did that (turned her out) she came
storming back. Even though she’s already got 15 hard races under her belt
hopefully the rest will do her good and she’ll be her old
self in her next start.”
If Tracys Song wins her next start here she’ll equal the
Monticello Raceway track record of 15 wins in a row set in 2010 by
Northern Chief and driver Mike Merton.
Although Tracys Song wasn’t on the Mighty M program of
Monday, May 6th , trainer Bob Lounsbury managed to
have two winners from the five horses he started that afternoon.
Bruce Aldrich, Jr. does all the driving for Lounsbury and he
was in the sulky behind Jinni’s Fantasy ($4.70) when she won in 1:58.4
and Aldrich reined trotter Miley Jo ($3.60) to a 2:00.3 triumph. Irwin Kaplan
owns the former and Stan Indig owns the latter.
“We could have had an even better day with a little
luck,”Lounsbury added. “One of my trotters Civil Cause, a 1-2
favorite, jumped it off and another, JMdancingshannon , who also was an
odds-on favorite, choked down. The other pacer we sent out , NF Beach
Candy was beaten a nose( in a 1:58.4 mile).”
However Aldrich got his third winner on the program when he
guided Al Annunziata’s trotter Distinct victory to a 2:01.4 victory.
Now with 186 seasonal driving victories Bruce Aldrich, Jr.
ranks eighth in races won on the North American leaderboard. He’s currently
doing double-duty, racing at both Monticello and Saratoga Raceways.
