Peace Talks vaulted three-wide up the backstretch around failing cover and drew clear to a 3-1/4-length, 1:53.4 win — her second in as many starts this season — in Thursday’s (Feb. 19) co-featured $10,000 top-level distaff pace at Rosecroft Raceway.
Driver Jonathan Roberts reached the 5,000-win milestone of his career on Monday (Feb. 16) at Rosecroft Raceway when he teamed Freaky Feet Beast to a 12-1 upset in the night’s eighth race, a $7,500 conditioned claiming pace.
Sent off at 19-1, Phoenix Rising did the heaviest lifting in Thursday’s (Feb. 12) $9,000 distaff pacing feature at Rosecroft Raceway through a long first-over grind but ultimately shared top honors with 1-5 favorite Peace Talks, who fanned off live cover to force a dead heat.
Making the first start of his 4-year-old campaign, Lou’s Starr called the shots early and was geared down late for a measured 1:53.2 score in Monday’s (Feb. 2) $12,000 Open Handicap Pace at Rosecroft Raceway.
David Jarvis and Aaron Waxman’s Timestorm rallied to a 1:56.4 victory in the co-featured $9,000 top-level conditioned trot on Thursday (Jan. 22) at Rosecroft Raceway, capping a driving hat trick for Corey Braden.
Spring Blake made easy work of his seven rivals in Monday’s (Jan. 19) $12,000 Open Handicap Pace at Rosecroft Raceway, securing control of the terms early and evading pocket rival A Major Attitude for a 1:52.3 score in the opening-night feature — his fourth in a row against Rosecroft’s top pacers.
After being stretched out through a :26.2 first quarter and fending off a stern first-over challenge from Coaches Corner through the far turn, John Cancelliere’s Maximus Miki outlasted an inside challenge from pocket rival Nijinsky to seal a narrow 1:48.2 victory in the Grade 3 $125,000 Potomac Pace on Sunday (Nov. 2) at Rosecroft Raceway.
Three weeks after a disappointing seventh-place finish to Coach Stefanos in the Breeders Crown Open Pace, Abuckabett Hanover pounced from the pocket to collar Ruthless Hanover for a 1:47.4 victory in the $125,000 Potomac Pace Invitational on Sunday (Nov. 17) at Rosecroft Raceway.