Tgdn5/8 - Sweet Lou – Foiled Again entry morning line favorites in Roll With Joe

Sunday afternoon at Tioga Downs (post time 1:30pm) will feature the $184,000 Roll With Joe open pace and the $158,000 Artiscape open mare pace. In the Roll With Joe, the Ron Burke entry of Sweet Lou and Foiled Again have been installed as the 5-2 morning line favorites. The most noteworthy story line behind the powerful entry is that for the first time since the Burkes purchased Foiled Again, Yannick Gingras will be in the race, but will be sitting behind someone else. Gingras has opted to drive Sweet Lou in the Roll With Joe on Sunday at Tioga, leaving the driving duties on quadruple millionaire, Foiled Again, to Matt Kakaley. Kakaley is no stranger to the winner’s circle however, and captured the 2012 edition of the Roll With Joe with Clear Vision for Ron Burke over his stable mate Foiled Again.. Clear Vision however is not back to defend his title this year, but a field of ten, and quite possibly the best field of ten ever assembled at Tioga Downs will go to the post in race 8 on Sunday afternoon.  

Golden Receiver, who makes his way back to Tioga Downs where his racing career began under the care of Nina Simmonds of Binghamton, who still co-owns part of Golden Receiver. The 8-year old son of Village Jove-Royal Gold has been given the nod as 3-1 second choice after a disappointing 7^th place finish in last weeks TVG Free For All series. Usual pilot, Tim Tetrick, will do the driving for Mark Harder and one would highly doubt that early speed is not in the cards for Golden Receiver.

 Betterthancheddar and George Brennan will make their Tioga Downs’ debut on Sunday after the duo finished second in the Molson Pace at Western Fair. He has been listed as 5-1 on the morning line, but anyone who watched the Molson Pace last week will certainly be filtering some money his way. The pair was locked in the two hole in the Molson and never had any racing room in the stretch, but had plenty of horse left right through the wire. The 5-year old son of Bettor’s Delight – Lady Ashlee Ann won nine of eleven starts last year and $800,000 before being sidelined for the year in mid-September.

Race 8:

$184,000 Roll With Joe Open Pace

           PP                           HORSE                                  DRIVER                 TRAINER
1              5              Sweet Lou                                           Yannick Gingras                Ron Burke
1A           6              Foiled Again                                       Matt Kakaley                     Ron Burke
2              1              A Rocknroll Dance                            John Campbell                  Jim Mulinix
3              2              Golden Receiver                              Tim Tetrick                          Mark Harder
4              3              Betterthancheddar                         George Brennan              Casie Coleman
5              4              Rockincam                                          Brian Sears                          R Nifty Norman
6              7              Aracache Hanover                           Doug McNair                      Gregg McNair
7              8              Warrawee Needy                            Jody Jamieson                   Carl Jamieson
8              9              Sapphire City                                     Ron Pierce                          Paul Blumenfeld
9              10           Pet Rock                                              David Miller                        Virgil Morgan Jr.

 

A field of ten has also been assembled for the $158,000 Artiscape pace, but has been whittled down to just six betting interests. Ron Burke sends a quartet of the best pacing mares in the business, and also picks up Economy Terror as an entry mate due to the common ownership on Ginger And Fred.

The powerful five horse entry has been installed as the 8-5 morning line favorite with Blue Chip champion, Feeling You (Tyler Buter) marked as the 5-2 second choice.

Race 5:

$158,000 Artiscape Open Mare Pace

 

#             PP           ML          HORSE                                  DRIVER                 TRAINER

1              3              Bettor B Lucky                                   George Brennan              Ron Burke
1A           4              Ginger And Fred                               David Miller                        Ron Burke
1B           7              Rocklamation                                     Yannick Gingras                Ron Burke
1C           9              Economy Terror                                Jim Morrill Jr.                     Chris Oakes
1D           10           Camille                                                 Matt Kakaley                     Ron Burke
2              1              Feeling You                                         Tyler Buter                          Amber Buter
3              2              Big McDeal                                          Jody Jamieson                   Ben Wallace
4              5              Anndrovette                                      Tim Tetrick                          P J Fraley
5              6              Drop The Ball                                     Corey Callahan                  Ross Croghan
6              8              Royal Cee Cee N                               Ron Pierce                          Mark Harder

 

Also, on Sunday Tioga Downs will hold an auction for the game worn and autographed jerseys that the Binghamton Mets wore replicating Yannick Gingras’ driving colors with all proceeds going to pancreatic cancer research. Fans at the races on Sunday will also receive one free replica jersey t-shirt while supplies last.

Tioga Downs continues live racing action on Friday, June 7^th with a post time of 6:50pm, for more information on Tioga Downs please visit us online at www.tiogadowns.com.