Walspea rides pocket to $183,650 G2 Steele Memorial triumphEAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — After falling just short of Yo Tillie in a Miss Versatility leg last week, Walspea (Walner) found enough to strike the front in deep stretch and also evade a pair of late pursuers en route to a lifetime-best 1:50.3 score in Saturday’s (Aug. 8) Grade 2 $183,650 Dr. John R. Steele Memorial, for trotting mares, at the Meadowlands. Lasting Dream made a brief push for second but leveled off cornering for home, enabling Gingras to find room to angle Walspea wide in upper stretch. Once Gingras fed her racetrack, the Trond Smedshammer trainee switched gears, engulfed Yo Tillie with a sixteenth to go, and had enough left late to evade an inside sprint from runner-up Tactical Moni (Dexter Dunn) by a neck. WALSPEA REPLAY<span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span><span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span><span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span>Woman Of Passion hooked to the grandstand side in mid-stretch from her three-hole ride to save third over Yo Tillie, who finished a beaten fourth. Now a nine-time winner, Walspea has earned $441,299 in her career for Purple Haze Stables and M3 Racing Stable, and she paid $4.80 to win.