Dropping in class to the Fillies & Mares Preferred 2 level, Style For A Mile led all the way to win the Friday, March 22 feature on a snowy spring evening at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
The outsiders showed early gate speed in the $32,000 third race with Style For A Mile and driver Doug McNair crossing in front of Western Wish (Tyler Jones) in the first turn amid a :27 opening quarter. Style For A Mile continued to lead the field of a half dozen distaffers into a headwind down the backstretch past the half in :56.4 and on to three-quarters in 1:27.1. Down the stretch, Western Wish sought racing room up the inside while Wildcat Star (Trevor Henry) rallied off the cover of a parked-from-the-start Ms Quick Sand (Austin Sorrie), but Style For A Mile held off her rivals on both sides, winning by a half-length in 1:54.2 over the snow covered track. Western Wish settled for second and Wildcat Star finished third.
Style For A Mile paid $6.50 to win as the 2-1 second choice to favoured So Much More (James MacDonald), who got shuffled to the back of the pack heading to the final turn.
Richard Moreau trains the five-year-old Captaintreacherous-Injeanous Style mare for Brad Grant of Milton, Ont. and the Florida-based Odds On Racing. Style For A Mile, who is now two-for-six this year, has won a quarter of her 60 lifetime starts while earning $325,510 in purses.
A reminder of the upcoming break in the racing schedule that Woodbine Mohawk Park will be closed from Monday, March 24 to Friday, March 29, with training and racing resuming on Saturday, March 30. There will be an early post time on Saturday evening of 6:10 p.m.
To view Friday's harness racing results, click the following link: Friday Results - Woodbine Mohawk Park.
(Standardbred Canada)