By Tyler Stillings
Top level 3 year old fillies got their chance to shine with two divisions of the Mickey Burke Adio Volo. The first division saw the Martin Valentic, TG Stable and Bill Boyce’s Allegra Hanover grind out a long first over 1:50.2 effort. Sitting fifth till just before the half, the Papi Rob Hanover would move first up to engage the front runner Shes A Streaker in the middle of the last turn and half the lead mid stretch. Needing only to hold off the late rally of Ballast and Matt Kakaly for a lifetime best effort for Tyler George who trains the now 6 for 11 sophomore filly who Dunn said “was impressive to do it that way today, the hard way.”
The second division of the Mickey Burke Adio Volo saw Dexter Dunn use the same style trip, this time it was the Tim Twaddle trained Time Of The Season first over. “Scoring down and in the mile she felt fantastic and I’m glad that’s how she raced,” was how Dunn described the 3 year old Bettors Wish filly’s effort. Now 4 of 7 on the year, the victory in the $57,000 Grade 3 event pushes her seasonal earnings over $50,000 for owner/breeder Birnam Wood Farms of Florida.
From post seven, Tim Tetrick crafted a second over trip with Frantic Hanover into a 1:50.4 victory in their $69,000 division of the Tyler B stakes. “I love this horse,” Tetrick explained following his third win on the afternoon, “He doesn’t know how fast he is.” A $50,000 Harrisburg purchase for Burke Racing , Brad Grant, Knox Services and Weaver Bruscemi, the Ron Burke freshman colt pacer is undefeated in two lifetime starts both sire stake events.
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In his elimination last week for the Delvin Miller Adios, Prince Hal Hanover on the lead early and released Twisted Destiny well past the 3/8. From there the son of Captaintreacherous would get no closer than a half-length to elimination winner. This week’s final would set up nearly the same way except for one thing that made a difference, the fractions. Winning driver Todd McCarthy explained that “last weeks fractions were a little soft and set up a sprint, not my fellas style.” With more pace up front McCarthy said “I was pretty comfortable where we were and just kept rolling along,” on their way to a career best 1:48.1 head victory over the late closing Swingtown and Ronnie Wrenn Jr. Trained by Ian Moore Prince Hal Hanover was a $130,000 yearling purchase for Prince Hal Stable of Cambridge Ontario.
For Adios day, trainer Ron Burke had 5 winners and driver Ronnie Wrenn Jr had five wins putting them in familiar territory upon the daily standings. The same pair would take top honors for the week with Wrenn driving 16 winners and the Burke stable sending out 9 winners during Adios week 2025.