DOVER, Del.— Apple Bottom Jean, Use Your Noodle and Seboomook Up-Town lead three $20,000 division of the Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF) Two-Year-Old Filly pace and the top trotters meet in the $20,000 Open on the regular card on Wednesday, Nov. 18 at Dover Downs. First post is 4:30 p.m.
Two of the three DSBF prelims open the program. In the first half of the daily double, KDK Standardbred's Apple Bottom Jean, winner of the $100,000 Harrington Final last month, with Montrell Teague at the controls, Bobby Glassmeyer's Eternal Rings drew the rail handled by Jonathan Roberts and JoAnn King's Cougar Creek, with Vic Kirby in the bike are the major factors in the first $20,000 DSBF division.
Use Your Noodle (Jim Morand) is program favorite kin the second DSBF section.
Sharon White, Louie Pagliaroni and Legacy Racing's She's Brilliant (Allan Davis), Mortgage Bags (George Dennis) and Carter Racing's Fiftyshadesofrusty (Callahan) battle it out in a competitive second $20,000 edition.
In the third $20,000 DSBF prelim, Garnet O'Marrow's Seboomook Up-Town (Allan Davis), second in last month's $100,000 DSBF Final at Harrington and owner-trainer Bobby Glassmeyer's Eternal Ring (Jonathan Roberts), Jeff and Dave Clark's Calledforapurpose, (Frank Milby) are leading contenders.
In the $20,000 Open trot feature, Rodger Plante drove Walter Callam's Spunky Jack to a mild upset victory in last week's edition. Mike Casalino's Tough Mac (Callahan) Tim Tetrick and trainer Jim King's Powerful Charger (Kirby), and Prayer Session, claimed for $25,000 after a win last Wednesday are always major rivals in this class.
Monday through Thursday post time is 4:30 p.m. There is no live racing Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
Marv Bachrad