Financier and Vote Yes for Love in dead heat at Laurel

Financier and Vote Yes for Love provided a thrilling finish to Wednesday's third race at Laurel Park, hitting the wire together in a dead heat.

Vote Yes for Love, who was winless in nine previous starts, appeared to be the winner of the $10,000 maiden claimer at the sixteenth pole, but Financier loomed on the outside and got a nose in front a few strides before the finish line.

Then it turned into a bob of heads with the duo crossing the line simultaneously.

Vote Yes for Love, a 3-year-old son of Not For Love trained by Yolonda King and ridden by Xavier Perez, paid $3.40 to win.

Financier paid $2.20 as the 7-10 betting favorite. The son of Pulpit is conditioned by Howard Wolfendale. Sheldon Russell was aboard the 3-year-old, who visited the winners' circle for the first time in his 13th career start.