{"id":35142,"date":"2022-08-13T23:03:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T03:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/?p=35142"},"modified":"2022-08-13T23:03:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T03:03:44","slug":"genesee-county-my-money-honey-surfer-beach-take-batavia-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2022\/08\/13\/genesee-county-my-money-honey-surfer-beach-take-batavia-features\/","title":{"rendered":"GENESEE COUNTY\/My Money Honey, Surfer Beach take Batavia features"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"35143\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2022\/08\/13\/genesee-county-my-money-honey-surfer-beach-take-batavia-features\/my-money-honey\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/videonewsservice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/My-Money-Honey.jpg?fit=%2C&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"My-Money-Honey\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/videonewsservice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/My-Money-Honey.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/videonewsservice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/My-Money-Honey.jpg?w=900&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35143\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Tim Bojarski for Batavia Downs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Photos courtesy of Wendy J. Lowery)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Batavia, NY \u2014 Two Open paces totalling $27,500 in purses highlighted the card at Batavia Downs on Saturday night (Aug. 13) and both races provided exciting finishes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the $14,000 Open II Handicap, My Money Honey (Kyle Cummings) got away third behind Art Scene (Jim Morrill Jr.) and both sat the trip behind Next Big Thing (Keith Kash Jr.) while he set fractions of :28.2, :58 and 1:25.4 to three-quarters while amassing a comfortable two length lead heading into the final bend. In that turn, Flying Finn N (Shawn McDonough) and Stranger Things (Kevin Cummings) were moving on the outside and that left My Money Honey locked in fifth on the pegs at the top of the stretch. But as the passing lane opened up at the top of the stretch, Art Scene ducked into it and left just enough room for My Money Honey to get between him and the pylons and My Money Honey had the best foot to the line and won by a neck in 1:54.4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second win in a row and sixth of the year by My Money Honey ($19.60) pushed his 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">earnings to $60,734 for the benefit of his owner Kyle Cummings. Tammy Cummings trains the winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then in the $13,500 Open II Handicap, Surfer Beach (Jim Morrill Jr.) left from eighth and dropped in fourth while Daylight Rush (Dave McNeight III) went to the front and took the field to the half in :56.4. It was there that Surfer Beach was first out and rolling up towards the leader in turn three and he continued to cut into the lead heading to the three-quarter pole. By the time they came out of the far turn, Surfer Beach and Daylight Rush were next to each other and as both drivers rocked and knocked down the stretch, Surfer Beach got the advantage and held off a late charging Blue Spanx (Keith Kash Jr.) to win by a neck in 1:53.4.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" data-attachment-id=\"35144\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2022\/08\/13\/genesee-county-my-money-honey-surfer-beach-take-batavia-features\/surfer-beach\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/videonewsservice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Surfer-Beach-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1707\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Surfer-Beach\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/videonewsservice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Surfer-Beach-scaled.jpg?fit=900%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/videonewsservice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Surfer-Beach.jpg?resize=900%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/videonewsservice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Surfer-Beach-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/videonewsservice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Surfer-Beach-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/videonewsservice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Surfer-Beach-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/videonewsservice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Surfer-Beach-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/videonewsservice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Surfer-Beach-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/videonewsservice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Surfer-Beach-scaled.jpg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/videonewsservice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Surfer-Beach-scaled.jpg?w=1800&amp;ssl=1 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was the third win of the year for Surfer Beach ($4.80) who is owned by Vogel &amp; Wags Nags Stable and Team Rice Racing. Maria Rice was the winning trainer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several horsemen had big performances on Saturday. Driver Kevin Cummings had a natural hat trick in races two through four while Kyle Cummings also had a hat trick that included the longest paying horse of the night, Lanas Desire ($106.50). That horse was trained by Jim Clouser Jr. who had two conditioning wins and he was joined by Dave Russo and Darrin Monti.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When live racing resumes at Batavia Downs on Sunday (Aug. 14) there will be a $1,519 carryover in the Jackpot Super Hi-5 wager in race 11. Post time for the first race is 1:15 p.m. Free full past performance race programs for all live race days can be downloaded by visiting the track&#8217;s website at <a href=\"http:\/\/bataviadownsgaming.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bataviadownsgaming.com<\/a> and clicking the &#8220;Live Racing&#8221; tab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Bojarski for Batavia Downs (Photos courtesy of Wendy J. Lowery) Batavia, NY \u2014 Two Open paces totalling $27,500 in purses highlighted the card at Batavia Downs on Saturday night (Aug. 13) and both races provided exciting finishes. In the $14,000 Open II Handicap, My Money Honey (Kyle Cummings) \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2022\/08\/13\/genesee-county-my-money-honey-surfer-beach-take-batavia-features\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,23],"tags":[376],"class_list":["post-35142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-batavia","category-genesee-county","tag-batavia-downs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eTP4-98O","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":70454,"url":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2025\/12\/02\/genesee-county-cummings-chindano-eye-career-marks-at-batavia-downs-wednesday\/","url_meta":{"origin":35142,"position":0},"title":"GENESEE COUNTY\/Cummings, Chindano eye career marks at Batavia Downs Wednesday","author":"aka","date":"December 2, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"By Tim Bojarski, for Batavia Downs Gaming (Photos courtesy of Wendy J. 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