Delicious (7f Cantab Hall-Ipsara LB-Lemon Dra) easily took today’s Giant Diablo (200,000SEK to winner, 1649 meters autostart, 12 starters) at Solvalla for harness racing driver Orjan Kihlstrom. Daniel Reden trains the undefeated mare in 2016 (five straight) for Stall Zet.
She recorded career win 24 in 49 starts, now for 6,111,572SEK earned.
Patricia Hastrup (9f Great Challenger-Isabella Hastrup-Sugarcane Hanover) was second for Bjorn Goop and Georgie Mae (6f Valley Victor-Missymandarine-Malabar Man) was third with Johan Untersteiner driving.
Delicious left alertly from post one, settled on the pegs and then made a decisive move to the lead at the three-eighths pole. From there she was a good four lengths or more in the clear. Time was 1.09.8kr after quick steady fractions (1.09.5kr after 500 meters and 1.09.3kr at the 1000 mark).
Delicious win today starts the speculation of her, Nuncio and Bold Eagle in the 2017 Prix d’Amerique, now four months away.
Earlier in the program there was several US-bred/CAQ-sired and exported winners: Barbara L. Hanover (3f Explosive Matter-Box of Dreams-Dream Vacation), Pokeman As (4g Kadabra-Oblige As-Scarlet Knight) and Ioana Hanover (3f Muscle Hill-In Dreams-Dream Vacation).
Thomas H. Hicks