WILKES-BARRE, PA  — Fancy Filly, a winner of 10 of 12 starts in 2009 and more than $817,000 in purses, heads up a field of 19 top three-year-old pacing fillies that will be entered in three James M. Lynch Memorial Stake elimination races Saturday, May 29th at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs.
Top three finishers in each of the elimination races will move on to the $250,000 finals the following Saturday.
A Western Hanover filly, Fancy Filly won a $610,000 Breeders Crown race last October at Woodbine in Canada with Brian Sears in the sulky. Sears will be in the sulky this coming Saturday night for trainer George Teague Jr.
Fancy Filly won her only start of the 2010 season at the Meadows in a Pennsylvania Sire Stake race, stopping the timer in 1:53.3. She drew the one post for the Lynch elimination race.
All Heart Gal, a winner of six of 10 starts and more than $232,000 in purses, will be leaving the from the No. 2 post alongside Fancy Filly in Race 9 of the 16-race card. George Napolitano Jr., the track’s leading driver, will be piloting All Heart Gal for trainer Luis Porfilio.
Another horse to watch in this division is Ultimate Best, trained by Don Swick with Tony Morgan in the bike. This three-year-old Cambest filly drew the No. 3 post and earned more than $195,000 in 2010 with only one win, five seconds and a third-place finish.
Second division (Race 7) is probably the toughest of the three elimination races that will carry purses of $20,839. Included in this field is No. 1 Western Moonlight (Napolitano Jr.), No. 5 No Bad Luck (Sears) and No. 6 Feeling You (Jim Morrill Jr.)
Feeling You, a Cambest filly trained by George Berkner, was a $15,000 supplemental entry to the Lynch. Alan M. Kirschenbaum of Burbank, CA., owns Felling You and decided to put up the $15,000 after she had won four straight races, including sweeping the Wilkes-Barre Pace at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs in April and May.
In the Wilkes-Barre Pace, Feeling You won the $41,000 finale with a time of 1:51.2, coming the last quarter in 27.4.
No Bad Luck, a three-year-old Badlands Hanover filly, is also trained by Teague Jr. This filly has won five of six starts this year with one third-place finish. The latter was in the Wilkes-Barre Pace, some two and one-half lengths behind Feeling You. No Bad Luck didn’t race as a two-year-old.
Western Moonlight (Napolitano Jr.) will have the No. 1 post in the seventh race. This Western Hanover filly is trained by Jim Campbell and is coming off a 1:53 at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs May 21. Last season, Western Moonlight earned more than $329,000 and had a mark of 1:52.1 at the Meadowlands.
Opening division (Race 5) will have a field of six pacing fillies, including No. 4 Ruffle’s Kiss, trained and driven by local Joe Pavia Jr., and A And GS Princess, a three-year-old All-American Native filly trained by Mark Capone. A And GS Princess earned more than $131,000 last year with two wins and four seconds in 11 starts.
Ruffle’s Kiss has hit the board in all four of her starts in 2010, including her last start at the Meadowlands with a winning time of 1:52 with Sears in the bike.
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