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Enhance The Night Wins Snow Angel

December 14, 2006

Enhance The Night dug in and just hung on to win the $47,300 Snow Angel Final and complete a sweep of the three-week series for three-year-old pacing fillies on Thursday night at the Meadowlands. The daughter of Western Ideal extended her winning streak to four and posted her sixth win with three seconds and five thirds from 20 starts.

In the three-way photo finish, it was a nose back to Spanish Rosey and another neck to Heavenly Beauty in third. Enhance The Night, trained by Erv Miller, paced the sixth race mile in 1:52.3. Miller, who also trains the third-place finisher, Heavenly Beauty, won the 2005 Snow Angel with Vysoke Tatry.
"I wasn't really confident when I made the lead [at the half]," said winning driver Yannick Gingras. "I had to get after her to get there. Three weeks in a row, the front end isn't quite where she likes to be. That was the third week in the row, and it was pretty hard to get to the front. She showed she had a lot of class. She hung in there tough. At the top of the stretch, I was hoping for a check. But I got after her pretty good, and she just kept digging in."

Enhance The Night has now banked $120,327 for Perfect World Enterprises of Old Westbury, New York.

"There's no doubt [she could be an open mare]," Gingras noted. "The next couple of weeks we'll try to race her from the back and see how she reacts to that. There are a lot of Winter Series here, and she's eligible to a bunch of them."

Enhance The Night is eligible to a pair of three-week series for fillies and mares at the Meadowlands, the Night Styles with a $60,000 estimated final on March 7 and the Jersey Girls which offers a $70,000 estimated final on March 28.

$47,300 Snow Angel Final The Meadowlands Racetrack
HN-PP Horse                     Driver
3-2 Enhance The Night         Y Gingras
4-3 Spanish Rosey                David Miller
8-8 Heavenly Beauty             Patrick Berry
6-6 Ms Maggie                      Andy Miller
1-4 Fionavar Hanover            Dan Dube
9-9 Ima Sporty Lady             Mike Lachance
7-7 Rare Filly                        Steve Smith
5-5 Mysterious Dragon           Brian Sears
2-1 TJ's Molly May                 Ron Pierce
1A-10 Leavea Smile              Cat Manzi
27.2      55.1      1:24.1      1:52.3