Double Winners at Presque Isle and the Indiana Downs Spring meet comes to a close

Rockin’ Rockstar won for the 2nd time this year at Presque Isle tonight putting his earnings over $80,000 for the year and over $200,000 for his career. He absolutely loves this track. This was his sixth lifetime win with four of them at Presque Isle. He paid $11.20 which really surprised me. Congratulations to Ralph Piercy, Jack Danehy, Terry Ward, Barry Ward, Steve Yamaguchi, Kenneth Agronin and Mary Ann Barth.

Devil’s Prize broke her maiden tonight at Presque Isle running her first time out since the last week of May. We had wanted to run back at Churchill, but the maiden $50,000 never went the last month of the meet. We thought of going to Ellis Park for a maiden special race, but this purse was $13,000 more than the one at Ellis, so we thought we would try it and it all worked out great. Congratulations to Margaux Farm, Dr. Ken Gerson and Dr. Louis Hersh (also the breeder).

We wrapped up the Indiana Downs meet on Wednesday with 11 wins, 10 seconds, 10 thirds and 12 fourths. Total purse earnings were $393,330. We had a few seconds that should have been wins and would have pushed our earnings much higher; we’ll get ’em next time. Indiana racing now takes a two week break until opening day at Hoosier Park on August 2nd.