Captain Albano headlines eliminations for Delvin Miller Adios Pace for the Orchids

A total of 15 contenders, including Captain Albano, the Dan Patch Award Winner for 2-year-old male pacers as well as Pennsylvania’s champion, will enter Saturday’s pair of eliminations for the Delvin Miller Adios Pace for the Orchids at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows.

The elimination heats, both of which will pay out 25,000 to the winner, are races eight and nine of the overall 15-race program.

The first four finishers in each eliminations, along with the fifth-place finisher with the higher lifetime earnings, return on Adios Day, Saturday, July 27 for the $350,000 final.

Connections for the elimination winners will be able to pick their post positions for the final. A random draw will determine the other post positions.

Captain Albano earned $445,680 at age 2 and took a mark of 1:49.2 in the Arlene Siegel Memorial at The Red Mile last September in Lexington, Ky.

This year, he finished fourth in the North America Cup final and ninth after a trip in the final of the Meadowlands Pace last Saturday.

Well-known trainers Ron Burke and Travis Alexander will have three Adios contenders apiece in the field of 15.

Burke sends out Outer Banks (race 8, post 4, driver Ronnie Wrenn, Jr.), Booming Economy (race 9, post 4, David Miller) and Noblesville (race 9, post 6, Wrenn).

Alexander will be represented by Sweet Beach Life (race 8, post 1, Matt Kakaley), Huntingforchrome (race 8, post 4, James MacDonald) and Courtship (race 9, pace 8, Kakaley).

The Adios eliminations card Saturday also features a pair of stakes for freshman colt and gelding pacers: a $192,108 Pennsylvania Sires Stake and a $120,000 PA Stallion Series event.

The first post is 12:45 p.m.

On Adios Day July 27, the final of the Pace for the Orchids anchors a program that features six Grand Circuit stakes.