Enavant surprises in Potomac
At 0h47, on November 15, 2021 • By ROSECROFT
Determination and Guy Corbeil’s Enavant, fourth in the $600,000 Breeders Crown last time out, went by the 1-2 favourite Allywag Hanover shortly after the opening quarter and never looked back, drawing away down the stretch to win Sunday evening’s (Nov. 14) sixth running of the $100,000 Potomac Pace at Rosecroft.
Driven by Daniel Dube, who won the 2017 Potomac Pace with Keystone Velocity while setting a track record, Enavant covered the mile in a lifetime best 1:48. Allywag Hanover finished second, Jacks Legend N third and Nandolo N was fourth.
Enavant, a five-year-old gelded son of Somebeachsomewhere trained by Luc Blais, was a length behind third-place Allywag Hanover in the Breeders Crown. He had previously finished second to Allywag Hanover in the Sept. 18 Gold Cup at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Enavant has won five of 14 starts this year and has finished in the top three in 11 of those 14 starts.
Dube said he had no plan going into the race.
“I make no plans,” he said. “I saw leaving I had to come first over so I took a shot. A good horse…they keep going. The last time he raced at the Meadowlands [in the Breeders Crown] he come back [:]25 at the end. He was flying home. We wanted to give him a shot tonight.”
Enavant went off 6-1 and returned $15.20.
