Fifteen enter Grade One Adios Pace

Hollywood Casino at The Meadows announces that a total of 15 harness racing horses have entered this year’s Grade 1 Delvin Miller Adios Pace for the Orchids, presented by the Mickey Burke Family.  The entries include one $35,000 supplement.

Two elimination races will take place this Saturday, July 19, during the 12:45pm card.  They are set as races 9 and 10.

Among the 15 entries are some of the sport’s top three-year-olds, which have been competing in major stakes across North America.  The supplemental entry, Rick Wink, has rarely been seen outside of Ohio and will be making the move to a larger stage for trainer Ron Burke.  His supplemental entry fee will be added directly to the purse for final next Saturday, July 26.

The Burke Brigade leads the way with five of the 15 entries.  Joining Rick Wink are, alphabetically, Papi’s Rocket, Railroad Station, Sippinonsearoc and Swingtown.  Tony Alagna is the only other trainer with multiple Adios entrants, sending Fallout and Knockout Round. Fallout, the fourth place finisher in the Meadowlands Pace in New Jersey this past Saturday, is joined by two other top-4 finishers from that event – Prince Hal Hanover, who was placed second on Saturday, and Papi’s Pistol, the third place finisher.  Prince Hal Hanover is trained by Dr. Ian Moore, while Papi’s Pistol is from the Sam DePinto Stable.

The full fields for the Adios eliminations, with named drivers.  Final driver choices will be made Thursday morning.

RACE 9

1 – Rick Wink (Bit Of A Legend N), Chris Page for trainer Ron Burke

2 – Prince Hal Hanover (Captaintreacherous), Todd McCarthy for trainer Ian Moore

3 – Doncic (Sweet Lou), Dave Palone for trainer Brian Brown

4 – Lite Up The World (American Ideal), James Macdonald for trainer Anthony Beaton

5 – Twisted Destiny (Bettor’s Wish), Dexter Dunn for trainer Chris Ryder

6 – Knockout Round (Sweet Lou), Dave Palone for trainer Tony Alagna

7 – Papi’s Rocket (Papi Rob Hanover), Yannick Gingras for trainer Ron Burke

RACE 10

1 – Wedlock Blue Chip (Bettor’s Wish), David Miller for trainer Roland Mallar

2 – Railroad Station (Sweet Lou), Ronnie Wrenn Jr for trainer Ron Burke

3 – Papis Pistol (Papi Rob Hanover), David Miller for trainer Sam DePinto

4 – Makes Sense (Papi Rob Hanover), Dave Palone for trainer Robert Cleary

5 – Sippinonsearoc (Downbytheseaside), Yannick Gingras for trainer Ron Burke

6 – Swingtown (Downbytheseaside) , Ronnie Wrenn Jr for trainer Ron Burke

7 – Fallout (Captaintreacherous), Tim Tetrick for trainer Tony Alagna

8 – Glowing Lou (Sweet Lou), Jordan Stratton for trainer Cory Stratton

The top 4 finishers from each elimination will advance to the final, along with the fifth place finisher with the highest career earnings according to US Trotting Association records.

This Saturday’s card will also feature two divisions of the Roy Davis Pace, a Grand Circuit stake for two-year-old pacing colts that often provides a preview of the following year’s Adios.

POST TIME CHANGE FOR JULY 26

Hollywood Casino at The Meadows also announces a post time change for the Saturday, July 26 Adios Final card, to 11:30am.  FOX will be broadcasting the Grade 1 Adios live as part of their “FOX Saratoga Saturday” show, which runs from 3-6pm Eastern.  The Adios Final will be race 15 on The Meadows’ card that day, with a post time of approximately 4:45pm.  In order to accommodate the full card, the decision was made to move post time for the first race of the day to 11:30am.

For complete race entries, click here: US Trotting entries.

by Jeff Zidek, for The Meadows