The Meadows: Captain Cowgirl ropes a national season's record

Defending Pennsylvania champion Captain Cowgirl poured it on through a 55 3/5 back=half en route to a sparkling 1:49 3/5 victory in Saturday's $133,830 PA Sires Stake at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows. Sweet And Feisty captured the other division of the event for 3-year-old filly pacers, known as the Adios Betty.

Captain Cowgirl kicked off her sophomore campaign with a middling fourth-place finish in the PASS opening leg, but she was all business in the Adios Betty - even though winning driver Aaron Merriman altered his original intention to tuck.

"I was going to do that, but she felt so good I went on with her," Merriman said. "It's hard to slow horses down at this level when they’re stirred up."

The pace was just fine for the daughter of Captaintreacherous-Rideintothesunset, who not only set a lifetime mark, but she also turned in the fastest mile this season by a sophomore filly pacer on a five-eighths-mile track.

Jim King Jr. trains Captain Cowgirl, who now has banked $289,977 lifetime, for Jo Ann Looney-King and Kenneth Frieder.

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Sweet And Feisty entered the Adios Betty off a 1:50 4/5 triumph in a stallion series split, but owner/trainer Mitchell York said that wasn't the primary reason he promoted her to the sires stake.

"We thought she had that kind of talent from the very beginning," York said of the daughter of Sweet Lou-Fast And Fiesty. "But she ended up with two broken bones last year and couldn't race. We didn't know how she would come back."

When Ronnie Wrenn Jr. angled her off cover, Sweet And Feisty blew past pace-setter Lydeo and defeated her by a length in 1:52 3/5. Somesweetsomewhere completed the ticket.

York indicated his filly will race primarily in Pennsylvania this year.

--press release (MSOA)--