Stash The Cookies pockets another Preferred

Stash The Cookies (Sunfire Blue Chip) turned in a second consecutive winning harness racing effort in the Fillies and Mares Preferred at Century Downs on Friday (Jul. 15).

She emerged from the centre of a three-horse vanguard fighting for the lead and headed her six rivals to the quarter mile marker in :27. The six-year-old strolled to the half in :56.3 for trainer/driver Logan Gillis and made a backstretch dash to open up by three lengths as she hit three-quarters in 1:24.1.

Favourite Betcha Baby (J. Brandon Campbell) chased the leader to the line, but Stash The Cookies proved a length-and-a-quarter the best in 1:53.1. Past Affair (David Kelly) also made headway but could not improve on her third-place positioning.

The winner returned $9.80.

STASH THE COOKIES REPLAY

Stash The Cookies has now won two straight Fillies and Mares Preferreds at Century Downs. Derek Gilbert of Brandon acquired the 2019 Gord and Illa Rumpel Memorial winner in June. The win lifted her earnings to $179,979 and her win total to 16 in 60 lifetime starts.

Kelly won four of the day’s seven races.

This will be the first week of Century Downs’s new Friday-Saturday schedule. The track hosts its first back-to-back Saturday card on Jun. 16. Racing will begin at 2:15 p.m. MDT.

For complete race results, click here.

by Nicholas Barnsdale, for Harnesslink