Lass Shot triples for Preferred victory

Lass Shot (Archangel) defeated her male harness racing rivals in the Preferred Trot at The Raceway at the Western Fair District on Wednesday (Mar. 27) to extend her winning streak to three.

Garrett Rooney oversaw a wire-to-wire trip as the mare cut fractions of :28.4, :58.3, and 1:27.4 on the lead. Little resistance came from her four opponents, and Lass Shot only had to hold off pocket-sitter Hot Fudge Sundae (Alfie Carroll) down the stretch to complete the win in 1:58. Hot Fudge Sundae was a length-and-three-quarters back in second with Andy Over (Ed Hensley) alongside him for third.

LASS SHOT REPLAY

Lass Shot has now racked up a quarter-century of wins  and $155,794 in earnings from 85 career starts. She has now won three straight, rising in class in the last two. Britt Kennedy owns and trains the homebred mare.

Also on the card, About A Boy (Dali, Travis Henry) won for the first time since 2021. In his first start for trainer Ashley Lendvoy, the gelding popped the pocket entering the backstretch and drove clear by a length-and-three-quarters to win in 1:59.1. The 10-year-old hadn’t won since June 2021 but missed the second half of the year and most of 2022 and 2023. Lendvoy and Dayna White now own the gelding, who has won 20 of 124 lifetime appearances and has banked $157,375.

ABOUT A BOY REPLAY

The Raceway at the Western Fair District will host racing next on Friday, Mar. 29. Post time on the 10-race card is 5:50 p.m. EDT.

For complete race results, click here.

by Nicholas Barnsdale, for Harnesslink