Dover: Favorites rule in Tuesday's DSBF prelims

Deborah Warnick's homebred Royal Beep Beep ($2.20) solidified himself as a likely favorite in next week's Delaware Standardbred Breeders' Fund (DSBF) series final for 2-year-old male trotters with a decisive 1:59 3/5 score in the first of two $20,000 second round preliminary events on Tuesday (Nov. 14) at Bally's Dover.

In line to Tim Tetrick, Royal Beep Beep won a three-horse battle to the first turn, pushing through from the pole position to seat LG's Bluestone (Art Stafford Jr.) in the pocket through a 29 2/5 first quarter. The Yankee Royalty-Beep Beep Bye Bye gelding traveled uncontested through middle splits of 59 2/5 and 1:29 4/5 before gradually extending his margin of victory over LG's Bluestone to three lengths. Its Oliver Now (Corey Callahan) finished third.

After sweeping both of his preliminary divisions, Royal Beep Beep has won four of eight career starts for trainer Jason Skinner and has earned $61,368.

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LG's Jaxon ($2.80) and driver Jim Morand also prevailed at odds-on, controlling fractions of 29 2/5 and 1:00 before parrying a challenge from Pretty Two (Carlo Poliseno) at three-quarters in 1:29 2/5 and edging clear to win by 2 1/2 lengths in 1:59 2/5. First round winner Trout Master (Pat Berry) finished third.

Now a four-time winner in six starts, LG's Jaxon has earned $91,000 for Teresa Givens' Nanticoke Racing. Les Givens trains the Rolls Blue Chip-Miss Jocelyn gelding.

In addition to two-time preliminary winner Royal Beep Beep and single-leg winners LG's Jaxon and Trout Master, the following horses have qualified for the $110,000 DSBF series final, to be held next Tuesday (Nov. 21): LG's Bluestone, Pretty Two, Its Oliver Now, Pulsator and Workslikeacharm.

--press release (DSBF)--