Best of Jenna takes mares open

The Tuesday night May 23 Running Aces harness racing card featured the $10,000 Mares Open Pace, with a talented field of 7 distaffers squaring off.

The talk of the tote board was Best of Jenna, and with good reason, the 5 year old by Jenna’s Beach Boy did not disappoint her backers as she posted a one length score from post 5 in her 2017 debut. Driver Rick Magee floated her quickly from the middle of the gate to the pocket early, then brushed to the lead past the 28.1 quarter, and it was smooth sailing through the remaining fractions of 57.0 and 1:25.4. Best of Jenna had plenty left in the tank and kicked home in 28.1 to stop the timer in 1:54 for her 9th lifetime win. She is owned by Dr. Ken and Jana Lee Rucker.

Mikeleh, an 8 year old pacing mare by Western Ideal posted a dazzling gate-to-wire romp (1:54.1) in a $6,000 conditioned event with driver Luke Plano aboard for trainer George Reider and Owners Little Bapa LLC. Tonight’s 7 ½ length tally was the 20th lifetime win for Mikeleh, who has now bankrolled more than $328,000 lifetime.

Steve Wiseman remained white-hot on the Tuesday night card, adding another driving triple to his Grand Slam on Sunday and his natural hat-trick on opening night. Wiseman has jumped out to a nice early lead in the drivers race with just 3 nights completed. Tonight he scored in the opener with Listentoherheart ($8.20) then picked up a mid-card win with One Chief ($8.00) and nabbed the finale with the favorite Gravelsinmytravel ($3.40)

Live Racing returns to Running Aces this coming Saturday, May 27 with a first post of 6:00 pm CDT with a carryover in the .20 cent Jackpot pick 5 of $1,177.11

By Darin Gagne, Running Aces Track Announcer