Cannibal wins $350,000 Adios Pace for the Orchids at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows

Cannibal raced through the Lightning Lane to win by a head in the 57th edition of the $350,000 Delvin Miller Adios Pace for the Orchids on Saturday at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows.

Cannibal and driver Yannick Gingras finished in 1 minute, 49 seconds, edging Redwood Hanover and Seven Colors.

Race favorite It’s My Show, who set a world record 1:47.4 in his elimination last week, finished in fourth place.

“I liked the spot I got in early in the race, and I could see It’s My Show getting a little tired,” Gingras said in a news release. “But when I saw Palone’s horse (Seven Colors), I was a little worried that I wouldn’t get there in time. It’s actually exactly how I saw the race unfold. About once every hundred races, it does unfold the way you see it.”

It was the second Adios title for Gingras, who won in 2013 with Sunfire Blue Chip for trainer Jimmy Takter, a Hall of Famer and the father of Saturday’s winning conditioner, Nancy Takter.

Cannibal, a son of Sweet Lou-No More Losses, has won six of seven starts this year and has banked $365,978 for owner/breeder Diamond Creek Racing.

Nancy Takter completed a rare Adios Day double as her 3-year-old filly, Always B Naughty, took the $114,770 Quinton Patterson Adioo Volo, the companion feature to the Adios.

Ron Burke horses won five races on the 16-race program. Ronnie Wrenn Jr. notched three of those victories with the other two to Chris Page.

In the day’s Grand Circuit racing, Burke swept both divisions of the Mary Lib Miller for freshman filly pacers while Anthony MacDonald and trainer Tim Twaddle captured both splits of the James Maderino for sophomore colt and gelding trotters.