Meadowlands: Lady Chaos heads Toscano hat trick in qualifiers

Trainer Linda Toscano sent out three winners in qualifying action on Friday morning at the Meadowlands, headlined by last year's Breeders Crown 2-Year-Old Filly Trot champion Lady Chaos.

Driven by David Miller in the day's fourth qualifier, Lady Chaos finished strongly in the last eighth from the pocket and chased down leader Pub Crawl to win in 1:57 1/5. A daughter of Cantab Hall, Lady Chaos won six of 11 starts in 2020 and earned $565,321.

Toscano then teamed with driver Scott Zeron to win with a pair of daughters of Captaintreacherous in the tenth and 11th. Up first was Marsala Hanover, a 3-year-old who was a stakes winner in Pennsylvania and New Jersey as a rookie, as she edged clear inside the final eighth after going two-wide from the pocket to prevail in 1:56 3/5. After Marsala Hanover, Rocknificent, a 4-year-old who has banked $603,574 thus far, rallied powerfully in the stretch after sitting third to chase down pace-setter JK First Lady (Dexter Dunn) late in 1:50 3/5, the session's fastest clocking.

Undefeated 3-year-old Always B Miki colt Perfect Sting (D. Miller) won his second straight qualifier at the Meadowlands in the 12th, rallying by Pirate Hanover (Andrew McCarthy) from the two-hole to tally by a couple lengths in 1:52 3/5 for trainer Joe Holloway.

Miller also won the eighth qualifier with former Hambletonian Oaks winner When Dovescry from the two-hole in 1:56 4/5, topping a field that included Forbidden Trade (seventh), Ramona Hill (fourth), EL Ideal (sixth), and Amigo Volo (eighth), and the ninth with Ron Burke-trained Blue Diamond Eyes, a 3-year-old Captaintreacherous filly who won the Three Diamonds and the Pennsylvania and Kentucky Sire Stakes finals at 2, as she moved from second to first past the opening quarter and went on to a 1:56 decision.

Tony Alagna teamed up with Andrew McCarthy for a trio of victories, with McCarthy guiding 3-year-old Trixton filly Beltassima to a 1:56 1/5 score in the opener, 3-year-old stakes winner Abuckabett Hanover, a Betting Line colt, to a 1:52 4/5 win in the 13th, and 5-year-old Big Jim gelding Angers Bayama to a 1:51 1/5 decision on the engine in the finale.

Trainer-driver Ake Svanstedt also had a pair of 3-year-old colt trotters score wins, striking first with Johan Palema, a son of Bar Hopping, in 1:56, and then catching the eye in wire-to-wire fashion with Lindysmusclemania, by Muscle Hill, in 1:53 2/5.

The other winners during the qualifiers were:

3-year-old Father Patrick filly Thesunrisesagain (1:58 3/5, Joe Bongiorno/Jonas Czernyson)
3-year-old Muscle Hill colt Jula Muscle Pack (1:56 2/5, Tim Tetrick/Per Engblom)
3-year-old Trixton filly Aunt Irene (1:56 2/5, Dexter Dunn/Nancy Takter)