Racing News
Frank Coppola, Jr & Kelly's Noah
Frank Coppola, Jr. completed a sweep of the Saratoga Opens on Saturday night as the track’s leading driver finished up the “feature trifecta” with a victory in the $16,500 open pace. Coppola has become the regular reinsman for Kelly’s Noah and on Saturday piloted the pacing star to a last to first victory. The win was the second consecutive Saturday open win for the James Harvey owned and trained four year old and the sixth in the 2010 campaign in just twelve starts. The win put the Dream Away pacer over the $100,000 mark in earnings for the season. Reminic (Brian Cross) was second while Pembroke Blitz (Wally Hennessey) earned the show spot in the 1:53.4 open on Saturday night. Coppola drove the winner of the open for distaff pacers on Thursday night as he went wire to wire with Ubettorthink Think and followed it up with a win in the Friday open trot with perennial local trotting star Prime Interest.
Live racing completed its summer meet on Saturday night but will the Fall meet starts up this weekend with Friday night action starting the a wire-to-wire weekend of live racing. First post on Friday is 7:05pm.
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Mike Sardella
Photo: Dave Oxford