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Miss May Bell was all alone at the finish of her 1:55.2 win Thursday at Running Aces. Nicole Major photo.<\/p>\nColumbus, MN \u2013 The Thursday night (Aug. 14) harness racing program at Running Aces featured Minnesota-sired sophomore pacing action as well as the distaff Open Handicap pace.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Miss May Bell (Karpathian Kid) delivered a breathtaking performance in the final three-eighths of a mile to win by more than nine lengths in the $17,000 filly \u2018A\u2019 pace in 1:55.2 for her fifth win in seven career starts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Miss May Bell was all alone at the finish of her 1:55.2 win Thursday at Running Aces. Nicole Major photo.<\/p>\n
Driver Brady Jenson floated her away in fifth early and sat patiently through early fractions of :27.2 and :57.1 before making an eye-opening move down the backside that put them on top at the 1:26.2 three-quarters.\u00a0<\/p>\n
From there Miss May Bell ($3.40) drew away with every stride giving her rivals no chance. Skooch\u2019s Valentine (Dean Magee) was the best of the rest and Wisco Half Pint (Luke Plano) checked home in third.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The winner is owned by her breeder, Merlin Van Otterloo, and is trained by Brett Ballinger.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Swinging On By (Karpathian Kid) returned to his winning ways in the $17,000 colts \u2018A\u2019 pace, turning in a gate-to-wire effort in 1:55.2 for his fourth tally of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dean Magee sent him right to the front and they dictated the terms with ease throughout and held to the wire for a three-quarter length score over a fast-closing Wind Me Up Blue (Scott Cisco) with longshot Easy Money Maker (Brian Detgen) getting home in third.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Swinging On By ($5) is owned and trained by Brett Ballinger and also owned by Darren Taylor.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Twist Little Girl N (Mooney Svendsen, $5) recorded her fourth seasonal win in the $15,500 Mares Open Handicap pace, fighting gamely to the wire to hold off a big late challenge by Scorecard Dandy (Dean Magee) by a head in 1:52.1 while Deja Vu Babyboo (Plano) was home third.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The winner is owned by Dave Dobbelmann and Cathy Dessert and is trained by Edwin Quevedo.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Yellowstone Kid (Karpathian Kid) captured the $8,500 sophomore \u2018B\u2019 pace in 1:57.1 over Easy Investment and Summer Scandal. Billy Mann was in the bike for owner Ken Stauffer and trainer Justin Anfinson. The win mutuel was $6.40.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brady Jenson led the program with four driving wins and a training double. Billy Mann drove two winners and trainers Brett Ballinger and Edwin Quevedo both had doubles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Live racing returns to Running Aces on Sunday night (Aug. 17) and will feature the $30,000 Steve Wiseman Memorial Trot with first post set for 6 p.m. (CDT).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Columbus, MN \u2013 The Thursday night (Aug. 14) harness racing program at Running Aces featured Minnesota-sired sophomore pacing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-69309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}