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Will Take Charge used a sustained first-over drive to overtake leader Crazy Wow around the final turn and held off favorite Marion Marauder in the stretch to win Sunday’s (May 27) $150,000 Maxie Lee Memorial Invitational for older trotters in a world-record-equaling 1:50.3 at Harrah’s Philadelphia...read on
3&4 OPEN T 1.609 m auto Purse: $150 000 ()
RACE 10 - Harrah`s Philadelphia - PA - May 27, 2022
Conditions: Maxie Lee Memorial Invitational (By Invitation Only) Detention Time 9:40 AM
Gait: Trot Purse: $150,000 Class: MaxLee Inv Distance: 1 Mile Track Cond: FAST | Sta | Häst | Kön | Kusk | Tränare | Rek | Intj | Far | Mor | Morfar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MARION MARAUDER | h5 | Scott Zeron | Paula Wellwood | 09,2 | 2 550 700 | MUSCLE HILL | SPELLBOUND HANOVER | DONERAIL |
| 2 | RUBBER DUCK | h6 | Joe Bongiorno | Jennifer Bongiorno | 09,2 | 505 401 | MUSCLE MASS | RINGSIDE ROSIE | SJ'S CAVIAR |
| 3 | I KNOW MY CHIP | v6 | Victor Kirby | Walter Haynes Jr | 09,7 | 700 279 | DEEP CHIP | MADELINE'S CROWN | PEGASUS SPUR |
| 4 | WILL TAKE CHARGE | v5 | Tim Tetrick | Jeffrey Gillis | 09,9 | 561 169 | KADABRA | CELEBRITY ANGEL | YANKEE GLIDE |
| 5 | CRAZY WOW | h6 | Yannick Gingras | Ron Burke | 09,1 | 2 259 968 | CRAZED | NO PAN NO GAIN | MR VIC |
| 6 | WARRAWEE ROO | h5 | Daniel Dube | Luc Blais | 10,6 | 385 382 | MAJESTIC SON | KAROON | YANKEE GLIDE |
| 7 | BROADWAY DONNA | s5 | David Miller | Jim Campbell | 09,1 | 1 286 573 | DONATO HANOVER | BROADWAY SCHOONER | BROADWAY HALL |
| 8 | TUONOBLU REX (IT) | h6 | Andy Miller | Julie Miller | 09,0 | 239 143 | CANTAB HALL | ETERNITY REX | LINDY LANE |
| AE1 | MELADY'S MONET | v9 | Brett Miller | Walter Carroll | 09,5 | 1 310 258 | REVENUE | KEYSTONE MELADY | KEYSTONE SMOTHERS |
HN Horse PP 1/4 1/2 3/4 Str Finish Actual LQ Odds
4 Will Take Charge 4 4/4H 2°/T 2°/H 1/H 1/1 1:50.3 27.4 2.70
1 Marion Marauder 1 5/6 6°/5H 4°/3 3/2 2/1 1:50.4 27.2 *0.70
5 Crazy Wow 5 1/1H 1/T 1/H 2/H 3/1H 1:50.4 28.0 7.20
6 Warrawee Roo 6 6°/6H 4°/3T 3/2 4/3H 4/5 1:51.3 28.2 10.20
3 I Know My Chip 3 3/3 5/4 5°/5 5/4H 5/6 1:51.4 28.0 18.10
7 Broadway Donna 7 8/9H 7°/9 7°°/5H 6/6H 6/9 1:52.2 28.3 30.40
8 Tuonoblu Rex 8 2/1H 3/2 6/5 7/18 7/26 1:55.4 32.0 28.00
2 Rubber Duck 2 7/7H 8/9H 8/16 X8X/DIS 8/DIS 44.80 | Time: | 26.4 | 54.4 | (28.0) | 1:22.4 | (28.0) | 1:50.3 | (27.4) |
1st Will Take Charge (5, G Kadabra - Celebrity Angel - Yankee Glide)
Registered Owner(s)/Lessee(s): Mac Nichol - ON
Breeder(s): Kentuckiana Farms Gen Par - KY
2nd Marion Marauder (5, H Muscle Hill - Spellbound Hanover - Donerail)
Registered Owner(s): Marion Wellwood - ON, Devin Keeling - ON
Breeder(s): William Mulligan - PA
3rd Crazy Wow (6, H Crazed - No Pan No Gain - Mr Vic)
Registered Owner(s): Our Horse Cents Stables - NY, Stable 45 - FL, J&T; Silva Stables, LLC - NY, Deo Volente Farms LLC - NJ
Breeder(s): Peter Pan Stables Inc - OH
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| Will Take Charge held off favorite Marion Marauder in the stretch to win Sunday’s $150,000 Maxie Lee Memorial Invitational for older trotters in a world-record-equaling 1:50.3. |
Will Take Charge used a sustained first-over drive to overtake leader Crazy Wow around the final turn and held off favorite Marion Marauder in the stretch to win Sunday’s (May 27) $150,000 Maxie Lee Memorial Invitational for older trotters in a world-record-equaling 1:50.3 at Harrah’s Philadelphia.
Marion Marauder finished second, one length back. Crazy Wow, the event’s defending champion, was third. The winning time equaled the world record for a gelded older trotter on a five-eighths-mile oval, set by Sevruga in 2013.
Will Take Charge, driven by Tim Tetrick, was in fourth place behind Crazy Wow, Tuonoblu Rex and I Know My Chip when the field hit the opening quarter in :26.4. Tetrick moved Will Take Charge to the outside prior to the halfway point, leading the outside flow with Warrawee Roo, Marion Marauder and Broadway Donna following his cover.
Crazy Wow remained in front at the half, in :54.4, and three-quarters, in 1:22.4, before yielding to Will Take Charge.
“I got away in a tough spot where I knew I was going to be first up,” Tetrick said. “If I’d just pushed a little harder I might have been in the two or three hole and then maybe moved back to the front. But my horse raced really good. When (Warrawee Roo) left I had to come kind of early, but I knew I’d kept Marion Marauder one horse back from me. My horse raced first up from the quarter-pole on in a record time, so it was pretty special.”
Will Take Charge, a son of Kadabra out of Celebrity Angel, is a 5-year-old gelding owned by Mac Nichol and trained by Jeff Gillis. The horse has won six of 11 races this year and earned $205,268.
Nichol purchased the horse in November. The gelding was previously trained by John Bax and was runner-up in the Ontario Sire Stakes championships at ages 2 and 3. For his career, Will Take Charge has won 18 of 61 races, going 9-for-15 with Gillis, and earned $636,169.
Will Take Charge made a splash with his seasonal stakes debut on May 5 by finishing second to defending Horse of the Year Hannelore Hanover in the Cutler Memorial at the Meadowlands. In his start prior to the Maxie Lee, the gelding made a four-wide move around the final turn at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono to complete a last-to-first rally after a few missteps at the beginning of the race.
“My horse coming into (the Maxie Lee) in his last two was awesome,” Tetrick said. “His last race at Pocono, horses just don’t do that. He did it with the ear plugs in, so I knew he was going to give me a good race today.”
Tetrick has won the Maxie Lee on five occasions. Will Take Charge paid $7.40 to win as the 5-2 second choice.
Earlier on the card, defending Horse of the Year Hannelore Hanover won a leg of the Great Northeast Open Series for trotters by three lengths over Sutton in a track-record-equaling 1:52.2. Yannick Gingras guided Hannelore Hanover, the 1-9 favorite, to victory for trainer Ron Burke. The winning time matched Buck I St Pat’s track record for older female trotters, set in 2008.
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