Dover: Odds-on favorites prevail in DSBF second round

Tobago Time ($3.40) vanquished first-round winners Cinder's Baby and Stealing Bases with a 1:56 score in her $20,000 second-round division of the Delaware Standardbred Breeders' Fund series for 3-year-old pacing fillies on Wednesday (Dec. 8) at Dover Downs, while fellow odds-on choice Littlebagoftricks ($2.80) captured the other split.

Tobago Time pressed forward out of post four in line to Allan Davis and strung Cinder's Baby (Ross Wolfenden) out through a 26 3/5 first quarter before yielding for a pocket ride. The daughter of Tobago Cays-Time Frame N drafted behind middle sectionals of 56 1/5 and 1:25 2/5, through which Cinder's Baby was significantly softened up by the first-over Stealing Bases (Victor Kirby). Davis angled Tobago Time to the open stretch, and she surged to the lead in the final sixteenth, edging 1 1/2 lengths clear of Cinder's Baby. Stealing Bases narrowly held third over the second-over Roses And Orchids.

Chuck Crissman Jr. trains Tobago Time for breeder David Hamm, who co-owns the eight-time winner with Glenn Phillips.

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The earlier division saw Littlebagoftricks and Dexter Dunn launch a first-over bid out of fourth with three-eighths to go, push clear of early pace-setter Seboomook Beauty (Corey Callahan) midway on the far turn, and evade a charge from runner-up Hey Hey Dbay (Kirby) - who chased the winner's cover through the far turn - by 2 3/4 lengths to win in 1:56 2/5. Trainer Josh Green shares ownership in the Roddy's Bags Again-Bit Of Trick filly, a winner in 10 of 16 career starts to date, with Rich Lombardo Racing LLC. Green Racing Inc. is the winning breeder.

First-round winners Cinder's Baby and Stealing Bases and second-round winners Tobago Time and Littlebagoftricks all earned berths to next Thursday's (Dec. 16) $100,000 DSBF final, as did Hey Hey Dbay, Roses And Orchids, Seboomook Beauty and It's Turtle Time.

Three-year-old pacing colts and geldings contest the second preliminary round of their DSBF series Thursday (Dec. 9), squaring off in races one, two and four on the 14-race card. First post is 4:30 p.m. EST.

--press release (DSBF)--