Photo of Foiled Again, courtesy of Paul White. The horse will be driven by Jim Morrill Jr. on Friday at Batavia Downs.
By Tim Bojarski, for Batavia Downs
The richest standardbred in the history of the sport of harness racing, the $7.59 million winner Foiled Again will be competing at Batavia Downs on Friday night (Sept. 21) as part of his farewell tour as he heads toward retirement at the end of the year.
Foiled Again has won a remarkable 103 races lifetime and comes into Batavia on a three-race win streak. He most recently won at the Greenville Fair in Ohio, the Windsor Fair in Maine and at Freehold Raceway in New Jersey. This past week he made an appearance at the Little Brown Jug in Delaware, Ohio, where he trained a mile in front of the crowd on Jugette Day in preparation for his race at Batavia.
The 14-year-old Foiled Again will compete in race eight at Batavia Downs which is an Open II event going for $10,000. The estimated post time for that race is 9 p.m. He is owned by Burke Racing, the Weaver Bruscemi partnership, and JJK Stables, is trained by Ron Burke and will be driven on Friday by Jim Morrill Jr.
Foiled Again has raced at Batavia Downs six times since 2009, winning five and finishing second once. His last appearance at Batavia was in October of last year when he won in 1:52.2 by two lengths.
Foiled Again is one of only two horses in history to receive three consecutive USHWA Dan Patch Awards for best older male pacer. In 2011 at the age of 7, Foiled Again was named Pacer of the Year and is the oldest horse ever to receive that honor.
In 2013, at the age of 9, he won the Breeders Crown Open Pace to become the oldest horse to win a Breeders Crown event. In addition to that victory, Foiled Again was the also the winner of innumerable stakes, including the Canadian Pacing Derby, Ben Franklin Pace, TVG Free For All Series Championship, George Morton Levy Memorial Pacing Series, Bobby Quillen Memorial, and Molson Pace.
