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Dover, DE---Apple Bottom Jeans, Use Your Noodle and Cougar Creek each won $20,000 divisions of the Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF) for 3-year-old filly pacers Tuesday (March 29) at Dover Downs.

 

KDK Standardbreds’ Apple Bottom Jeans, winner of both the Dover Downs and Harrington $100,000 DSBF finals raced off to another big start chalking up an impressive 1:53.3 victory in the first of two $20,000 first leg preliminaries for 3-year-old filly pacers. Montrell Teague steered the black daughter of Mr Apples-Scylla Hanover to her sixth career win in seven starts for trainer Kevin Switzer. Eternal Ring (Jonathan Roberts) was second best with Mortgage Bags (Eddie Dennis) third.

 

Use Your Noodle pulled a mild surprise in the second $20,000 test. The Artzina-Lo Gophobia brown filly defeated freshman defending champ Delle Donne (Callahan) in 1:53.3. The win was the first of the campaign for Use Your Noodle and fourth in her career with six seconds. Jim Morand drove the win for trainer Les Givens and owners Henry Faragalli III, Feeney, Johnson and Nanticoke Racing. Delle Donne, who had a perfect three-for-three wins going in, finished second. She’s Brilliant (Davis) was the show horse.

 

Vic Kirby drove Cougar Creek to victory in 1:53.4 in the third $20,000 DSBF filly pace. Trained by Jim King for his wife JoAnn Looney-King, the Dream Away-Fire One Up filly won easily besting Fiftyshadesofrusty (G. Dennis) and Motel Molly (Wolfenden).

 

The second leg DSBF events will be held next Tuesday.

 

Monday through Thursday racing begins at 4:30 p.m. Dover Downs is dark on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.