Sway Me Over won the second race at Mountaineer on Sunday, November 1, in her first career start and paid $252.20 for a $2 win ticket. No other horse in the 10-runner field was making a debut, and she went off at 125.10-1, the longest odds on the board.
The race was a $15,000 maiden claimer for fillies and mares aged three to six, run at five furlongs over a firm turf course for a $13,500 purse. Fourteen horses were entered and four scratched. Blue Ice went off the 2-1 favorite, with Have a Happy and Mika's Way the next two choices.
The official chart from Daily Racing Form has Sway Me Over breaking seventh from post 1 under Bailey Weatherly and running fifth at each of the first two calls. She swung four wide in the upper stretch, sat fourth at the stretch call and drew away in the final strides to win by 2½ lengths. Can't Argue That, at 6.40-1, held second by 2¼ lengths over Have a Happy, who had trailed early and rallied five wide.
Gorda finished fourth, and Blue Ice was fifth without mounting a bid. Chizzy, the early leader, was still in front at the stretch call but finished last of 10. Mary McGee was second at the stretch call and faded to seventh, while Mika's Way pressed the pace through the turn and ended up eighth. The final time was 57.14 seconds, after fractions of 21.73 and 45.40.
Sway Me Over also returned $64.60 to place and $24.80 to show. The $2 perfecta of Sway Me Over and Can't Argue That (1-7) paid $1,521.80, and adding Have a Happy for the $1 trifecta (1-7-3) paid $2,016.60. With Gorda fourth, the 10-cent superfecta (1-7-3-2) paid $9,515.60, and the $2 daily double paid $943.80, combining Sway Me Over with race 1 winner Gamay.
In Turf Archive's results, no winner at a North American track paid more on November 1; the next-largest price was $93.60, for Christy My Love at Laurel Park. Turf Archive's results begin on March 13, and no larger win payoff at any track appears in them since, with Saberfight's $229.80 at Fair Grounds on that first day the closest. At Mountaineer, where Turf Archive's records start on April 12 and cover 791 races, the previous high was $113.80, paid by Ninety Two on June 29.
Weatherly had 45 wins from 419 mounts in 2026 before the race, according to Equibase's standings. Sway Me Over's trainer, Marion Cuttino, had two wins from 51 starts this year by Equibase's count. John O'Meara bred Sway Me Over in Kentucky and owns her; the filly, foaled in May 2022, is a dark bay or brown daughter of Protonico out of the Temple City mare Sway My Way.
Five of her nine rivals were 3-year-olds. Under the race conditions Sway Me Over carried 124 pounds as a 4-year-old, four more than the 3-year-olds' 120, and the chart lists no claim from the race.