;">Golden Receiver, who last visited the winner’s circle on May 11 at The Meadowlands in a leg of the TV FFA Series, found his way back to victory lane despite horrible weather conditions in Sunday’s Allerage Farms Open Pace Final.

 

In customary fashion, the eight-year-old son of Village Jove-Royal Gold sprinted the field through fractions of :28.1, :55.3 and 1:22.4 before being collared coming into the lane by Clear Vision. Golden Receiver dug down deep, however, and reclaimed the lead in deep stretch en route to posting the 1:50 decision. Clear Vision was next best and Sweet Lou rounded out the top three finishers.

 

Corey Callahan engineered the winning trip with the Mark Harder trainee, who won for the ninth time this year and for the 58th time in his career. Owned by the New York partnership of Our Horse Cents Stable of Clifton Park and Nina Simmonds of Binghamton, Golden Receiver increased his lifetime earnings to $1,948,968.