Yoda Queen and Alabama Hannah headlined a pair of $18,000 divisions comprising round two of the Niagara Pacing Series featured on the mid-December Friday evening card at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
The series is for three-year-old pacing fillies that were non-winners of $60,000 lifetime as of Oct. 31.
In the first of two divisions, Yoda Queen (pictured above) circled a short field to take a new lifetime mark of 1:53.4 with Andy Moore working out the winning trip for trainer/owner Jamie Doig.
Honey Love (Bob McClure) left from the inside post to establish the lead over the field that reduced to five with opening round winner Ladyterra scratched sick. She set fractions of :28, :57.2 and 1:25.4 with Yoda Queen advancing from the back during the third panel and drawing clear down the stretch for the two-length victory. Honey Love settled for second with Premier Delight (Doug McNair) rounding out the top three.
A fifth-place finisher in the first leg of the series, Yoda Queen was sent off as the 2-1 second choice here and paid $6.40 to win. After going winless in five freshman starts, the All Bets Off-J M Chicago filly has won nine of her 21 races this year, with Friday’s score her first over the Mohawk oval.
(Standardbred Canada)
