The 37-year-old driver came from third-over with the Equinox Bi gelding Playboy Buddy Rose to wrestle the lead away from Yuge and record a neck triumph in 1:54.2 in one of the co-features. The lightly-raced 8-year-old has a better than 25 percent win ratio lifetime (19-for-74) for trainer Linda Lambert and owner Lloyd Lambert.
First of the feature winners was the Majestic Son gelding Majestic Marvel, trained by Josh Green for Green Racing Inc. Dexter Dunn got away fourth, then was on the move late on the first turn with the winner, grabbing the lead at the three-eighths and then coming home in :57 to post a 1:55 triumph, 1-3/4 lengths ahead of pocket-sitting Turn The Paige.
In the first of the co-featured trots, the Holy Guacamolie sophomore trotting filly Current News, fresh off a second in her Maryland Sire Stakes final, posted a lifetime best of 1:56.3 for driver Tetrick, trainer Eli Scott Jr., and Bay Pond Racing Stable. Current News was away fourth, moved up to the pocket as two foes in front of her went offstride, came out to get the lead in the stretch, then just held off Zack’s Got The W, who cleared between horses very well late and was gaining well, by a neck.
Tetrick then went on to sweep the $14,000 events with the Yankee Glide sophomore gelding Oberto, quarter-moving to the lead and then winning by 2-1/4 lengths over pocketsitting Fiery Lady while taking a new mark of 1:56.4. Oberto now has a record of 5-2-2-1 in just over a month of being with trainer Scott DiDomenico and the ownership of Triple D Stables Inc. and JFE Enterprise.