50 career wins for Bourbans Best

Bourbans Best paced home for his 50th career harness racing victory, winning the 2nd race at MGM Northfield Park on Tuesday (May 11). The 14-year-old veteran, with 444 career starts, also has 55 seconds and 57 third-place finishes.

Bourbans Best (Pro Bono Best – Mattachevitz – Matt’s Scooter) has career earnings of $295,028 with a lifetime mark of 1:52, taken at Northfield at age 12. The gelding’s richest win was for a purse of $14,000 in a Late Closing Series Final at Northfield in 2019. Bourbans Best is a well-traveled campaigner — his 444 starts have been spread across 12 different racing surfaces.

Bourbans Best started from post three in the evening’s $5,000 conditioned event. He let his competition carve-out fractions of :27 and :56.1, before pulling first-over and taking the lead nearing the 1:25.1 three-quarters and eventually besting his competition by two lengths in 1:54.3. He was favored in the race and paid $4.00 to win.

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Uriah Miller of Streetsboro, Ohio owns Bourbans Best. Trainer Sam Schillaci called upon Hunter Myers for the winning drive.

For full race results, click here.

by Ayers Ratliff, for MGM Northfield Park