Standardbred Canada
After reeling off wins in the Milstein Memorial and the last PASS preliminary, STAY HUNGRY colt SEVEN COLORS delivered a powerful punch in the $252,000 championship for three-year-old male pacers, defeating Pepsi North America Cup winner Its My Show in 1:48.1 and tying his own divisional track record, which he shares with A Rocknroll Dance.
Driver Dexter Dunn took a three-hole tuck with SEVEN COLORS to stalk Linda Toscano stablemates Its My Show (Scott Zeron) and Fulton (Andy McCarthy) through a :27 first quarter before brushing to control with a lap to go. Following a :54.3 half, Seven Colors was forced to pick up the pace on the backstretch by the first-over Ken Hanover (David Miller), who emerged from fourth and pushed a 1:21.4 three-quarters before working to within three-quarters of a length of the lead midway on the final turn. The STAY HUNGRY – Rainbowinthedark colt shrugged off his outside rival easily, edging away in upper stretch with :26.2 closing speed and winning by 1-3/4 lengths while well in hand. Its My Show protected second off his pocket ride while Fulton finished third, another three lengths behind.
“He’s a good horse; he’s on top of his game,” said Dunn. “I asked him coming off the top of the straight and the last eighth he was good. He was doing it pretty comfortably.”
Now three-for-three for his current connections — owner/trainer Andrew Harris and co-owners William Pollock and Bruce Areman — SEVEN COLORS has won eight of 20 races in his career and has banked just shy of $500,000. He paid $3.80 to win.
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The $50,000 PASS consolation for this division was won by Brue Hanover (Stay Hungry) by a neck over Just Bet It All with Bugaboo Lou finishing third. Yannick Gingras drove the Ron Burke trainee who is owned by Brad Grant. He paid $2.80 as the favorite.
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