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Four Star Sisco Takes $225,480 Berry's Creek

Four Starz Sisco & driver Eric Ledford

May 7, 2005

Four Starz Sisco left little doubt that he was the best in the $225,480 Berry's Creek Final for three-year-old pacers, the sixth race on Saturday night at the Meadowlands. Four Starz Sisco floated to the lead at the quarter pole, and drew off to a two and a quarter-length victory over Pat's All Star for his fifth win in six lifetime starts. Michael's Marvel was third by four and a quarter lengths. The mile was timed in 1:50.3, a fifth of a second off the stakes record set by Vine Street in 1993.

"I felt he was the best in the race, and I was heading to the front and I'll stay there until they can beat him," said winning driver Eric Ledford, who also won the Berry's Creek in 2003 with 55-1 Artesian. "He's gone in 50 and the earplugs are still in him. I don't know how fast he can go. Right now, he can go with anybody."

Unraced at two, the son of The Panderosa had won his first four starts efforts of the 2004 but finished eighth in last week's Berry's Creek Prep on an off track. Trained by Dave Sabatelli, Four Starz Sisco was the third Berry's Creek finalist for Jeff Cohen and Mike Sudaley, who race as the Four Starzzzz Stables LLC of Glenwood, New Jersey. Both Four Starzzz Shark in 2001 and Four Starzzzz King in 2004 were runners up.

Four Starz Sisco has now banked $137,490 and will have the Provincial Cup on May 29 at Windsor Raceway and North America Cup on June 18 at Woodbine before returning to the $1 million Meadowlands Pace on July 16.