'New' meet starts Monday at Fonner

For official record-keeping purposes, it’s a clean slate when Fonner resumes racing Monday. April 29 was the final day of Fonner’s regularly scheduled 2020 racing season.

The sixteen days scheduled to be run during May are a second meet that came about when Fonner made a request to the Nebraska Racing Commission to continue racing as a better option than attempting to shift racing in the state to Horsemen’s Park or Columbus.

Monday’s eight-race card starts, as usual, at 4 p.m. Central and is composed entirely of four-furlong sprints around one turn and six-furlong sprints around two.

The nominal feature is race 7, a nonwinners-of-two allowance race carded for six furlongs that drew a field of just eight. One of the eight is Cline Time, a two-race maiden who’s shown next to nothing in either of her starts, her presence notable mainly because her trainer, David Anderson, has a second entrant, D L’s Girl.

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Anderson presumably entered the apparently overmatched Cline Time to make sure the race made it onto the card, and D L’s Girl got to run, which leads one to assume she’s a live chance to win her second race from three career starts. D L’s Girl shot to the front in her second career start on April 13 and was drawing away late to post a one-race maiden victory.