"Coming around the last turn I was worried about Yannick [Gingras] on my back [With My Man]," Abbatiello said, "but she kept trotting to the stretch."
Eiler, who owns and trains the daughter of Master Lavec, purchased Dontevenknowmymame last October. She has since earned $63,605 toward a career bankroll of $108,861. Her win column now totals 13 in 44 starts.
"She's a game mare," Eiler said. "She took a lot of air tonight, but she keeps coming."
Though a longtime horse owner, Eiler only obtained his trainer's license a little over a year ago upon the urging of his children. He finished the 2011 season with 14 wins and $173,507 from 126 starters.
Fella's Ella, a 75-1 shot, picked an opportune time for her first career win in the $38,000 White Ruffles final for 4-year-old pacing mares.
The Pacific Fella lass, steered by Steve Smith, split horses in the lane and got up in the nick of time to take the fifth-race co-feature by a head over Devine Filly in 1:55.3. She paid $157.40 to break her maiden in her eighth start. John Pyott trains the mare for his brother, Robert, of Millville, N.J.
