Dover, DE --- Matt Kakaley became the youngest driver to win 2,000 career races when he reached the milestone at Dover Downs on Monday (Feb. 13).
It did not take Kakaley long to become, at age 23, the youngest driver in harness history to win 2,000 races. Kakaley, handling Howard Taylor’s We The People, won the first race of the day in a time of 1:53. The former record holder, Tim Tetrick, was 24 when he won his 2,000th race.
Ron Pierce drove Ise The By Boy to his first victory in the $30,000 Preferred Handicap. After scoring in a Winners Over two weeks ago and an Open last Monday, Ise The By Boy picked up a lifetime record 1:50.3 in besting Mainland Key N, driven by Tim Tetrick, and fast finishing Delivered From Zin, with Corey Callahan. Eric Ell conditions the Mach Three-Price Lee Fiesta gelding for Ken Wood, Bill Dittmar and Steve Iaquinta.
After racing on the outside from after the half, Nova Artist chopped down front-pacing Cams Art (Tim Tetrick) in the closing strides en route to a 1:50.1 triumph in the $30,000 Delaware Special Handicap. Nova Artist is an all Davis family 5-year-old by Real Artist-Avon Elegant Osborne, owned by Eddie and Kathy Davis, trained and driven by their sons, Martin and Allan Davis. The 1:50.1 clocking equals Nova Artist’s career best. Catchmecullen A (Tim Curtin) finished third.
In the $23,000 Open Pace, meet leading driver Corey Callahan steered Louie Paglierani’s Lou’s Bad Yankee to victory in 1:51.1, win number three in his last four and five of his last seven outings. The Badlands Hanover-Yankee Vista gelding was chased home by Samandar (Tim Tetrick) and Fancyfreeshark (Jon Roberts), second and third, respectively.
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