At the Post: Victor Laszlo takes the day at Suffolk

Patricia Moseley’s Victor Laszlo rolled to a dominant victory in the $25,000 Last Dance Stakes last Saturday at Suffolk Downs, winning the race for the third consecutive year.Trained by George Saccardo with regular rider Tammi Piermarini in the irons, the six-year-old homebred son of Victory Gallop settled out of the gate and rated behind the front-running Grady. He set sights on that rival approaching the far turn and dueled briefly before putting him away and drawing off to win by 12 1/2 lengths, completing a mile and seventy yards in 1:43.”I want to thank Mrs. Moseley, George Saccardo and everyone involved in his everyday care,” said Piermarini, a recent inductee into the New England Hall of Fame. “He is just a really nice horse. I’m just the pilot, he has cruise control. We finished really strong to hopefully set him up for his next race against open company.”Victor Laszlo, champion New England-bred last year, returned $2.80, 2.80 and 2.10. I’m Kwik paid 6.20 and 4.60 while Thepresidentallion returned $14.00.uLast Monday at Suffolk Downs, longtime Suffolk Downs handicapper and Senior Director of Communications Jessica Paquette made her announcing debut when regular announcer T.D. Thornton was stuck in traffic due to the tornado that hit Revere.Paquette became the first woman in the 79-year history of the racetrack to call a race when she called Worth the Worry’s victory in the opener for trainer Wayne Marcoux and jockey Luis Garcia.uWesley Ward sent out Sweet Shirley Mae, third in the 2012 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Sprint, to win Wednesday’s featured allowance race at Suffolk Downs.Ridden by Edgard Zayas, the four- year-old daughter of Broken Vow broke alertly and rated well off the front-running Clara Lives Strong. She began to make her move approaching the turn and accelerated sharply in the middle of the track to out kick a fast-closing Darn Proud and prevail by 1 3/4 lengths, completing about seven and a half furlongs in 1:35 1/5.As a juvenile, she was second in the Grade 1 Spinaway Stakes before finishing third in the Breeder’ Cup Juvenile Sprint. Owned by Ice Wine Stable, she improved her record to two wins from fifteen starts.Sweet Shirley Mae returned $3.20, 2.60 and 2.60. Clara Lives Strong paid $4.60 and 4.20 while Darn Proud paid $4.40.uToday at Suffolk Downs, a loaded field of ten will take to the turf in the featured race, a $20,000 allowance/optional claiming race to be run at about a mile and seventy yards.Headlining the field is Perfect Joiski, 5-2 on the morning line for trainer Kevin McCarthy. A two-time New England champion turf horse, the six-year-old gelding exits a runner-up effort following back to back turf victories. Roimes Chirinos will be aboard the son of Perfect Soul.Post time for the nine-race card is 12:45 p.m. Material from racing sources and wire services was used for this report.