Women Layer, Captain Albano win G2 McKee splitsEAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Women Layer ground out a first-over ascent and sprang a 17-1 upset with his 1:48.2 score in the $138,650 first division of the Grade 2 Sam McKee Memorial on Saturday (Aug. 8) at the Meadowlands while Captain Albano fought off a bevy of late pursuers for a 1:48.3 victory in the $139,900 second section of the annual event for open pacers. Women Layer, a four-time winner this year in Open company at Eldorado Scioto Downs, let the dust settle early from post 2 in line to David Miller. After putting away Captain Optimistic, Women Layer used :26.2 stretch speed to evade a host of high-priced late pursuers, prevailing by a diminishing head in a blanket photo finish. After being pressed to three-quarters in 1:21.4, Captain Albano dug deeper through the final furlong, driven out to withstand a swarm of challengers across the track and prevail by a neck. Now a 30-time winner, Captain Albano, a 5-year-old Captaintreacherous-Angelou entire, has earned $2,571,760 in his career.