MAYA PATEL HANOVER knows that the shortest distance between two points is straight.  Using that formula the daughter of CAPTAIN COREY enjoyed a wire-to-wire triumph at Harrah’s Philadelphia on July 23 in a $13,500 conditioned trot.

Driver Johnathan Ahle sent his charge to the front with a :29.1 opening panel, maintained her pacesetting position through a :58.3 and 1:27 middle half, to storm home in :28.2. by 2-3/4 lengths.

Tripping the timer in 1:55.2f it was the third seasonal score for the Ake Svanstedt-trained and co-owned sophomore distaff trotter.  Also co-owned by Brittany Farms, she was bred by Hanover Shoe Farms.  (Grace Zimmers photo)