Woodbine Mohawk Park: Dip Me Hanover best in Peaceful Way final

Dip Me Hanover came into the Peaceful Way Stakes at Woodbine Mohawk Park as a maiden, but she won her elimination last week and then the C$405,000 final for rookie trotting fillies on Saturday night in 1:55 2/5.

Hello Tomorrow (Yannick Gingras) left hard from post nine and cleared Panem (Dexter Dunn) for the front passing the 28 2/5 first quarter, with Dip Me Hanover (David Miller) away third. Hello Tomorrow would continue to lead to the 57 4/5 half and 1:26 2/5 three-quarters, with Dip Me Hanover left first-over at three-quarters when Panem came out briefly and then went back to the pylons.

In the stretch Dip Me Hanover edged by Hello Tomorrow and reported home with the win by a length. P L Notsonice (Renaldo Morales) rallied for third, followed by Panem and Sheer Energy (Louis-Philippe Roy).

"She's put in two big efforts both weeks there coming first-up. Coming first-up on Hello Tomorrow, that was a big challenge, and she stood up to it," said Miller. "Linda (Toscano) had her really sharp, and she just raced great.

"I got to race her a few times - once at Harrah's Philadelphia and once at Pocono. Both times out of a hole and off the back. She would trot right through the wire. She was acting like if she ever got a good spot, she could probably get it done."

Toscano trains Dip Me Hanover, a daughter of Donato Hanover, for her Camelot Stable Inc., along with Dreamville Stable, and Randi Farms LLC. She has banked C$237,016 to go with her two victories, and she paid $4.90 to win as the 7-5 favorite.

Dip Me Hanover was a $52,000 buy at the Standardbred Horse Sale and continued what her dam Dancing For Money started between Toscano and co-owner Paula Wellwood (Dreamville Stable).

"It started with her mom, they trained her and sent her down to me, so when we went to look at yearlings I said to Paula 'what do you want to do with this filly?' She said 'I want to own her, but I don't want to train her.' I said 'well, I can handle that part of it,' and that's how we wound up buying her," said Toscano. "She's a Donato, and she was a little high-strung, so we spent a lot of time kind of getting her quiet and taking her back. She's been just waiting for a good post, and it came along last week, and David took it from there.

"She's not going to go to Lexington. We're going to give her a little bit of a break, and then she's eligible to everything else at the end."