So Much More extends open streak to six

So Much More (Big Jim) won her sixth top-class harness racing event in a row as she again edged out Voelz Delight to capture the Fillies and Mares Open at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Friday (Oct. 7).

The mare gave up early position from the rail and took the four-hole early. Western Wish (Louis-Philippe Roy) cut the first quarter of :27 and half of :55. James MacDonald right-lined So Much More as the field entered the far turn, and the mare had made minimal progress by the three-quarter-mile mark in 1:23.

Western Wish took the field into the stretch but capitulated to So Much More in deep-stretch. The new leader’s work wasn’t finished, as Voelz Delight (Sylvain Filion) motored home, but she held off that rival by a neck to score in 1:50.2.

Western Wish held on for third.

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So Much More has won the last six open-level events she’s entered since Jul. 30, broken up by a two-start foray into the Milton Stakes elimination and final in mid-September. Don Beatson trains the six-year-old millionaire and co-owns her with Kenneth Beatson of Palgrave and Cole England of Exeter. The mare has won 53 of her 117 starts and has raked in $1,082,998 in purses.

Woodbine Mohawk Park will continue race on Saturday, Oct. 8 with an 11-race card beginning at 7:00 p.m. EDT.

For complete race results, click here.

by Nicholas Barnsdale, for Harnesslink