Tracys Song ran her current win streak to 11 when the 8 year
old Astreos mare scored a 2:01.4 triumph in the seventh race at Monticello
Raceway on Monday, April 1st . If this sounds redundant to you just
imagine how the drivers who have been chasing her over the past few months
feel.
With Bruce Aldrich, Jr. again at the lines, Tracys Song used
her patented front- end style to turn back seven others and extend her
track record for most consecutive wins by a mare.
“I can’t believe her,” Aldrich said referring to Tracys
Song. “How Bob (Lounsbury-her trainer) keeps her in top form week after week is
beyond me. I’m just glad he does and (I’m) glad he lets me driver her.”
After the race got started Dolly Little Angel and Pat Beeler
didn’t let Tracys Song take command until they passed the quarter in :29.3; a
move which he probably hoped would take the sting out of Tracys Girl.
After he let Aldrich and Tracys Song take the lead,
Beeler sat a two-hole journey and never moved until the top of the
lane. However, when he tried to rally his mare he found put just how
tough Tracys Song is as she dug in and wouldn’t let Dolly Little Angel, or third
place finisher, Get Ready To Rhumba (Zeke Parker) beat her.
Still racing with a $9,000 claiming tag Tracys Song extended
her lead in wins this year in North America, now two better than Lislea
Miles and Haroun Hanover’s nine.
The proud property of Nancy Fugere of Westbrookville, NY,
Tracys Song paid just $2.40 for win.
On the horizon for the pacing mare is the all-time
Monticello Raceway record of 15 consecutive wins set in 2010 by Northern
Chief and driver Mike Merton..
Asked if she has a shot at 15 in a row, trainer Bob
Lounsbury said; “I really don’t know but we’ll take it a week at a time. If she
stays sound she may, but week in and week out racing on the front end will
sooner or later take its toll.”
