Enhance Yourcalm N splashes his way to victory

Plainville, MA — It was a dark and stormy Monday afternoon (Oct. 30) at Plainridge Park and the weather left the harness racing track with off-going. But despite the less than favorable conditions, Enhance Yourcalm N (Majestic Son) maintained his composure to win the $25,000 Open Handicap trotting feature.

Big Box Hanover (Drew Campbell) left sharply and took a brief, early lead. That’s because Enhance Yourcalm N (Kevin Switzer Jr.) made an early call on the outside and took control of the race at the :28 quarter. Positions remained unchanged into turn two when Sonny’s Moni (Bruce Ranger) came first-over with Chapheart (Nick Graffam) on his back.

These top three trotted in close quarters up the backstretch, around the last turn and into the stretch where Chapheart passed Sonny’s Moni and took dead aim at Enhance Yourcalm N. The two battled hard to the line but Enhance Yourcalm N held his ground and hung on by a neck in 1:55.1.

It was the ninth win of the year for Enhance Yourcalm N ($4.40) who is owned by his trainer Mark Eaton, in partnership with Robert Griffin.

ENCHANCE YOURCALM N REPLAY

One race later in the $22,500 upper-conditioned trot, the track’s winningest horse of the year to this point – French bred Echo De Meautis Fr (Ganymede) – won his 11th race of the meet with a very gutsy effort.

Echo De Meautis Fr (Bruce Ranger) left from post eight and trotted loose on the lead to the half before Sidd Finch (Jay Randall) made his way towards the front on the outside. Sidd Finch closed to within one-half length of Echo De Meautis Fr at three-quarters and by the top of the stretch had a slim lead.

Sidd Finch was almost one-half length clear in deep stretch when Echo De Meautis Fr dug deep and roared back to retake the lead just before the wire and win by three-quarters of a length in 1:57.

Echo De Meautis Fr ($5.00) has now made $147,046 this year on the strength of his voluminous number of wins. Archie Mc Neil owns the Melissa Beckwith-trained gelding.

ECHO DE MEAUTIS FR REPLAY

Bruce Ranger and Nick Graffam had two driving wins each while 10 different trainers won one race apiece.

Live racing will resume at Plainridge Park on Friday (Oct. 30) at 2 p.m.

For complete race results, click here: US Trotting Results

by Tim Bojarski, for the Standardbred Owners of Massachusetts