The races that day will mark the second stop along the
journey where the top eight point earners during the season will have the
right to compete in the $175,000 final in late September
Many of these good looking fillies on the Mighty M Wednesday
card raced in the NYSS or the Excelsior Series at Buffalo Raceway on July
8th.
A few already appear to be high quality trotters
and after Dayton Blue Chip’s easy victory at
Buffalo perhaps Ray Schnittker may have another Check Me Out
on his hands.
The daughter of Credit Winner-Down Goes Debbie used
the front end route to an easy 4-length triumph in a solid 2:01.2 clocking with
co-owner and trainer Schnittker at the controls. That victory came on the
heels of a 2:01.3 triumph in her only other start at Goshen’s
Historic Track on June 29.
But Daytona Blue Chip will have to start from the seven-hole
outside obvious second choice Order By Credit, who comes in to the fray off a
1:58.1 baby race victory at the Meadowlands on July 5th. Newest—and
most deserving—Hall of Famer Jimmy Takter will be in the sulky behind that
Credit Winner-Hostess off-spring. The two—and six others-- will lock horns in
the 12th race on the 14-race Wednesday card.
Other interesting fillies on the program that afternoon
include Lady Riviera and Fairly Legal. The former won a leg of the John
Simpson at the Meadowlands in 1:58 on June 28 and was second her
next start in the Reynolds a week later beaten just a half-length in
1:58.1. Hall of Famer Ron Pierce will be in the sulky behind the daughter of
Sand Vic-La Riviera Lindy in race number one. The latter- Fairly Legal- a
daughter of Conway Hall-Kindling brings with her a 204.4 three-length
victory she earned on Historic Track’s double oval on June 29. The
sport’s current leading female driver, Jacquie Ingrassia, will handle the
driving chores in race number four.
And in race eight, two good looking prospects, Bullville Ata
Girl and Crazy Grigio will go head to head. The former, a Malabar Man-Bullville
Forever filly is two-for-two lifetime with both wins in 2:04.3 over half mile
tracks. Jimmy Morrill, Jr. will drive when the filly starts from post
position seven. The latter, a gray daughter of Crazed-Musetta Hanover, was a
2:03.2 at Buffalo Raceway on July 8 in her first start for money. Stephane
Bouchard will be that filly’s pilot and they’ll leave from the four hole.
Director of Racing Eric Warner has a good undercard in three
Excelsior Series events where a few fillies in those races have already broken
their maidens. Pretty Crazy,,a daughter of Crazed-Pretty May Flowers, won
easily in 2:04.3 in her Excelsior Series split at Buffalo on July,8 and One
Sharp Chick, an Equinox Bi filly out of Lapponia won her Excelsior Series
trot also at Buffalo in 2:06. Jimmy Morrill, Jr. will drive both fillies;
Pretty Crazy in the sixth race and One Sharp Chick in the 14th.
Post time for the 14-race program is slated for 12:50pm.
