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In Stakes Record 1:49.3 In Meadowlands Pace By Tom White
Real Desire captured the 25th renewal of the $1,009,000
Meadowlands Pace
by a neck over favored Bettor's Delight in a stakes record 1:49.3 Saturday
night at The Meadowlands.
Post time favorite Bettor's Delight and Mike Lachance
brushed to the lead
after an opening quarter in :26.4 and sprinted through middle fractions of
:541 and 1:22.1, but Real Desire, second choice at 2-1, was three-wide around
the final turn and closing ground down the long Meadowlands stretch.
At the wire it was Real Desire by a neck with Bettor's
Delight second .
Klingon Hanover was another length back in third. Winning driver John
Campbell won a record sixth Meadowlands Pace. Real Desire, a son of Life
Sign-Deadly Desire, scored his second win in six starts this season and his
first ever victory over Bettor's Delight. Last week Real Desire won his
elimination in 1:49.4. Real Desire's dam Deadly Desire died earlier this
spring at Brittany Farms.
The top three finishers are all eligible to the 56th Little
Brown Jug on
September 20 at the Delaware, Ohio County Fair.
The winner, trained by Blair Burgess, is owned by Brittany
Farms, Robert
Burgess, Perretti Farms and Karin Olsson-Burgess. The victory was Real
Desire's second in six starts this season and upped his career bankroll to
$1,020,368.
After the race Campbell said, "They left hard on the
inside and I thought
there was going to be a spot on the rail. I followed On The Attack as far as
I could and then had to go three-wide. I had to go three-wide earlier than I
would have liked. I wasn't sure I could catch Bettor's Delight, but I knew
he would go right to the wire."
"I was not sure he would win," said Burgess.
"Bettor's Delight is a
hard horse to go by. I wasn't sure until two steps before the wire."
"He raced beautifully," said Mike Lachance.
"I can't fault him on
anything. He raced his heart out all the way to the wire."
Real Desire paid $6.00, 2.60, 2.40. Bettor's Delight paid
$2.40 and 2.20
to place and Klingon Hanover was worth $2.60 to show.
Earlier on Saturday's card at The Meadowlands, Hawaiian
Cowby won the
$100,000 Meadowlands Pace Consolation in 1:50.1 over Ameripan Gigolo and Oaks
Enforcer. Quality Of Life captured the $75,000 Consolation in 1:51.1 in a
tight finish over Bagle Beach Boy and I've Got Life.
(Gen Sullivan of Harness Racing Communications contributed to this article.)
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