Spice It Up Lindy and Jim Meittinis established a new track
record for aged gelding trotters on Monday evening at Tioga Downs.
Leaving from
post position two in a scratched down field of five in the $16,500 open trot,
Meittinis wasted no time getting Spice It Up Lindy to the front. The duo
trotted by an opening quarter in 27.1 with Aruba Vacation (Fern Paquet Jr.)
setting in second.
Spice It Up Lindy kept the fractions honest despite the
short field by the half in 56.3 and three quarters in 1:24.3. Around the final
turn, Meittinis was receiving pressure from a first over Sand Top Gun (Howard
Parker) and asked Spice It Up Lindy for more.
The 9-year-old son of SJ's Caviar
– Spice World responded winning by open lengths in 1:53.1. Santo Zuzolo trains
Spice It Up Lindy who won for the fifth time in eight seasonal starts.
The mile of 1:53.1 erased the track record for aged gelding
trotters of 1:53.3 that he had previously held with Woody Woodrow and Aruba
Vacation.
Manningly (Mike Simons) closed late to be second, while Mosignor
Flan (Lewayne Miller) was third.
Tioga Downs continues live racing action on Friday, July 27
with a post time of 6:50 pm, for more information on Tioga Downs please visit
us on our website at www.tiogadowns.com.
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