The Meadows: Samosa looks to secure PASS Finals berth on Thursday

With a win and a second already in Pennsylvania Sire Stake competition, Samosa probably has already earned a berth in the $250,000 championship. But she'll look to secure that with a big showing in Thursday's $133,982 PASS at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows,

The stake for 3-year-old filly trotters, known as the Stenographer, will be contested over two divisions, races 1 and 4. Samosa goes from post 4, race 4, with Matt Kakaley up. The 12-race card also features a $40,000 PA Stallion Series event for sophomore filly trotters. First post is 12:45 PM.

Samosa began her PASS quest in awkward fashion, breaking stride in the opening leg at Harrah's Philadelphia. Scott McEneny, who trains the daughter of Cantab Hall-Kolachke and owns with her breeder, Fred Hertrich, says he went to school on that loss.

"She was wearing flip flops and I didn't know they wouldn't be good there," he said. "So I made the change."

The impact was evident in her very next race, a PASS leg at The Meadows, when she was fifth at the top of the lane and roared home to score in 1:54, her lifetime mark.

"When she came from so far back at The Meadows, I didn't think she would win, but she just exploded," McEneny said. "You can race her any way, though she's probably better off cover. She's good gaited, consistent, pretty honest and she tries."

Samosa is eligible for the rich Elegantimage at Woodbine Mohawk Park but none of the other lucrative late-season stakes.

"Sometimes we over-stake them, sometimes we under," said McEnemy.

-edited release (Evan Pattak for MSOA)