Harrington, DE--Ben Stafford and Winbak Farm’s Badlands Jenna ($2.40, Ben Stafford Jr.) and Joann Looney-King’s Sarah Barracuda ($68, Tony Morgan) won their respective $20,000 Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF) divisional eliminations for 3-year-old pacing fillies Tuesday (June 21) at Harrington Raceway.
Badlands Jenna, a daughter of Badlands Hanover, continued her dominance of the DSBF fillies with a 1:56.1 triumph over Winsmith Jess and What Rusty. It was her 15th win in 20 career starts for trainer Ben Stafford.
Meanwhile, 1-to-9 favorite Perec crossed the wire first in her division but was placed second for interference approaching three-quarters, giving the win to Sarah Barracuda. Perec (Corey Callahan) made a brief rough gaited stint that impeded the progress of pocket-sitter Sarah Barracuda momentarily, and caused the disqualification.
Perec was placed second, while Stash the Cash was third. ‘Sarah’ is a daughter of Three Olives and is trained by Jim King Jr.
In the overnight feature, KSJ Stable’s Perfect M Forever (Corey Callahan) captured the $18,600 Mares Open. In 1:53. It was her second straight win for trainer Josh Green.
Driver Ross Wolfenden had four winners on the program.