When Dover Downs hosts four divisions of the Matron series on Thursday evening, it will be a final opportunity for many 2-year-olds to shine before winter vacation. One of the standouts, When Dovescry, will be making her final start while for the pair from the Tom Cancelliere barn and perhaps others, they may or may not show up again later this month in the Fall Final Four at The Meadowlands. When Dovescry, a late-blooming daughter of Muscle Hill out of Cedar Dove, was a virtual unknown prior to showing up at the Red Mile and defeating The Ice Dutchess in the International Stallion Stake for trainer Rene Allard. She would follow that up with a Breeders Crown elimination win and a solid second-place finish behind super-filly Woodside Charm in the $600,000 2-Year-Old Filly Crown Trot final. “The plan all year was not to stake her early and go from August through the Matron,” said Allard, from the Harrisburg Sale on Monday. “I’m very happy with her and so much so that we bought her half-sister today out of the same dam (Cedarbluff Hanover - $160,000).” When Dovescry starts from post one as the 5-2 morning line favorite in her $177,800 Matron versus a solid enough group, but none that show her recent form. “With trotting fillies it is always a concern to have the rail, but she had it in the Breeders Crown final and she was good. Simon (Allard, driver) knows her and he’ll do a good job,” said Allard. The richest Matron of the night goes for $213,000 and features freshman colts and geldings. The field contains four Breeders Crown finalists and two more that raced in the eliminations. Trainer Tom Cancelliere has a pair in the group, one that made the final and one that just missed. Sugar Factory drew the better of the duo in post two with David Miller listed to drive. While he has a solid 9-2-4-1 record in 2018, it has been a long time between winner’s circle appearances and perhaps that has to with positioning according to Cancelliere. “He’s not a front-end horse and for some reason he wound up on the front in the Liberty Bell, both races in Kentucky and in the elimination of the Breeders Crown. That’s not his game. He is a horse that likes to come from behind,” said Cancelliere. “He’s a nice colt that does everything right, but he just looks for horses on the front end.” Love Me Some Lou is the second from Cancelliere and a horse the trainer can’t seem to catch a break with in a race. The son of Sweet Lou rallied nicely from a tough spot to finish third in the Breeders Crown but was impeded in each of his previous races. “He has hit everything on the track except for the starting car. He’s run into other horses multiple times, went over the top of horses that have broke in front of him. He is just a magnet for trouble,” said Cancelliere. “He raced very well and Corey (Callahan) gave him a tremendous drive in the Breeders Crown final.” The competitive group on Thursday includes morning line choice Semi Tough (5-2, Matt Kakaley), second choice Blood Money (7-2) and Breeders Crown elimination winner No Mas Amor (6-1, Tim Tetrick). While he was reluctant to choose, when pressed, Cancelliere leaned to Sugar Factory as having the advantage on Thursday on the five-eighths track. “I think Sugar Factory because he can make speed faster at the end of the mile and Love Me Some Lou is the kind of horse that likes to get out there and just keep coming,” said Cancelliere, who added that both horses would likely be done for the year after the Matron but that wasn’t set in stone. Also on the 13-race card is a $179,100 Matron for 2-year-old filly pacers featuring Breeders Crown finalists St Somewhere and Queen Of The Pride. The three Matrons go as races 6, 8 and 10. The colt and gelding trot division will race prior to the card as a non-betting event since it drew just four entrants. Post time for the early race is 4:15. The betting festivities begin 15 minutes later.