COLUMBUS, MN. – Party Hangover Two and Toatsmygoats were repeat winners in a pair of co-featured races at Running Aces on Saturday night (August 29); while a pair of hard-hitting condition horses sped to the quickest winning miles in seasonal-best performances.
Pary Hangover Two (trainer-driver Steve Wiseman) continued her total domination of the best pacing mares racing in Minnesota this summer winning for the seventh time in ten tries in the $9600 Distaff Open. Her 1:55.1 clocking bettered De Valeria (Tim Maier) and Bad Feeling (Dean Magee).
Toatsmygoats (Rick Magee) captured the $16,000 event for the best Minnesota-sired three-year-olds for the third consecutive time, topping Moonshinenmonkeys (Tim Maier) and Relentless Spirit (Luke Plano) in an identical 1:55.1 clocking. Trainer Dave Flinn has the sophomore son of Relentless Yankee in peak form with the $21,000 Minnesota State Championship race scheduled for September 12.
Outlawdangruswatrs (Tim Maier) upset the $7800 Open II male pacers with a 1:53.1 front-stepping score over stablemate Red Pine (Steve Wiseman) and Da Terror (Nick Roland). Sent off as the longest shot in the race at 21-1, the winner shaved two-fifths of a second off his best 2015 effort for trainer George Reider and returned $45.60 to his $2 to win backers.
Fastest mile of the night was recorded by Native's Revenge (Lemoyne Svendsen) who beat a full field of conditioned and optional claiming horses, chasing a $6600 purse, in 1:52.2. It was the eighth win in twenty tries this year for the Bob Johnson-trained five-year-old who is rapidly approaching the $100,000 earnings plateau.
Gregg Keidel