Atlanta post world record
At 0h02, on October 11, 2021 • By THE RED MILE
Speed came to shine on the closing card of the Grand Circuit meet at The Red Mile Sunday (Oct. 10), with the “fast” track producing world record from Atlanta in the Allerage events.
Driver Yannick Gingras poised champion mare Atlanta to attack her competition off the final turn, and the 6-year-old Chapter Seven mare responded with a fierce stretch kick to a world-record 1:49 mile in the $81,000 What The Hill Allerage Farms Mare Trot, sponsored by the What The Hill Syndicate and Hickory Lane Farm.
Atlanta landed in fourth to a :27.3 first quarter set by Felicityshagwell S, who maintained her speed to the half in :54.3 as the lone 3-year-old Altar lost stride from the pocket. When Dovescry mounted a first-over bid to the final turn, carrying Atlanta on her back, and ranged to take a narrow lead to three-quarters in 1:22.1. Atlanta then capitalized off the covered trip into the straightaway, coasting under slight high lines but all under wraps to hit the line 3-3/4 lengths better than When Dovescry. Hypnotic AM closed for third and Felicityshagwell S held fourth.
The 1:49 mile beats the world record for older trotting mares of 1:49.2 set by Atlanta’s stablemate, Hannelore Hanover, in 2017. It also matches the all-age world record for mares set in 2019 by 4-year-old Manchego, who recently retired from a career worth over $3 million.
