CHESTER PA -- The Cantab Hall filly Whose Blues sat a pocket trip behind the favored Sherry Lyns Lady, then caught her rival up the inside to win her $63,462 section of the first prelim of the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes for three-year-old trotting fillies Wednesday afternoon at Harrah’s Philadelphia in a divisional track record time of 1:52.3.
Whose Blues and driver Daniel Dube pushed Sherry Lyns Lady past a :27.2 quarter, then yielded to sit the pocket as the leader hit the half in :55.3 and then had to dig in against outside pressure from second choice Creature Of Habit to the 1:24.3 three-quarters and beyond. Dube and his filly made it three to a drive, and after Sherry Lyns Lady got a little rough in the big fight home, Whose Blues could produce enough kick to defeat the chalk by a half-length, with Creature Of Habit the same margin behind while settling for third.
The 1:52.3 clocking was also an individual best for the winner, now 6-of-11 lifetime. Luc Blais trains the filly for the Determination ownership group.