DOVER, Del.--- Overlooked Callmemza (Call-Me-Miz-A) enjoyed a perfect 2-hole trip en route to a 1:58.1 victory in the first of four $100,000 Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF) finals this week- the sophomore filly trot-on Monday, April 6 at Dover Downs. It was the headline event for winning driver Jonathan Roberts who had three wins.
Race favorite I Got Spunk (Corey Callahan) broke stride before the start and Penny Paratrooper (Ross Wolfenden) took command from post 1 with Roberts leaving to find an early spot behind the leader. Penny Paratrooper cut out the early fractions of :28.1 and :59.3 to the half with Roberts sittings second patiently. Reaching the three-quarters in 1:29, Eddie Davis Jr. pulled My Fire Cloud Too to quickly challenge for the lead and the front-trotting two raced around the final turn and for home. Roberts called on his homebred filly high in the stretch and streaked past the leaders and set a new race record of 1:58.1. My Fire Cloud Too was second. Silence Is Bliss closed for Tony Morgan to finish third in front of a tiring Penny Paratrooper.
“I had no special plan,” said Roberts. “I would see how the race enfolds.” The win was the Great George Two-Endorphan Annie bred by trainer Bib Roberts, Graham Grace and M&W stables. The trio own both the sire and the dam. She has now won six of 11 lifetime starts with three seconds and a third for a $160,221 lifetime bankroll. The name Callmemza was a creation of Jonathan’s wife.
In the $20,000 DSBF consolation, Corey Callahan took Scott Woogen’s Sign N Drive right to the front on the way to a lifetime mark of 1:59.3 for trainer Duane Wagner. The victory was the first this year for the CR Commando-Tybridge filly who also won the freshman consolation last November. She now has five career victories in nine races winning $83,900 in purses. Laurie Lin (Montrell Teague) was runner-up.
Roberts also drove Catalea Seelster, a daughter of Stonebridge-C’mon Mama Cass, to a 1:53.2 win in one of the two $17,000 4&5-Year-Old Mares Winners-Over paces, for trainer Trish Foulk and Foulk Stables. Megginspin (Allan Davis) and Annabeth (George Dennis) were second and third respectively.
The $17,500 division was won by Legacy Racing’s Empress Deo, with Jim Morand in the bike. It was the second win in-a-row and fourth in her last six outings for the Rocknroll Hanover-Little Miss Kay four-year-old.
Jonathan Roberts had three winners, Ross Wolfenden, Corey Callahan and trainer-owner Trish Foulk and Foulk Stables all had two wins,
This is the last week of the 2014-2015 Dover Downs season which features a $100,000 DSBF Final every day.
The top Delaware-sired three-year-old male trotters vie for $100,000 in the Tuesday DSBF Final.
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday post time is 4:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 9, closing day, will offer a ‘two-for-one’ special in the Winners Circle Restaurant. There is no charge for admission or for parking at Dover Downs. Harness and Thoroughbred Simulcasting opens daily at 12 Noon until 12 Midnight at Dover Downs Race and Sports Book in the Colonnade. There is no charge for parking or admission at Dover Downs.