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Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012 Kentuckiana To Downsize...p2 Quigley, Stillings to Hall...p2 harnessracingupdate.com Big Night at Mohawk...p3 (732) 530-6678 Towers: Do Times Really [email protected] Matter?...p4 Chapter Seven Beaten by a Hot Shot Hot Shot Blue Chip won for just the third time this year By Bill Finley from 14 starts and had seemed outclassed against Chap- On paper, it looked pretty easy for Chapter Seven last ter Seven and Mister Herbie, but he came through when it night at Vernon Downs in the Credit Winner. He only had to mattered in the stretch. beat three horses and the second choice, Mister Herbie, “I just wanted to sit as long as possible,” Callahan said. was the same horse he had just whipped in the Nat Ray at “As soon as I felt Trond nudge off my back I moved my the Meadowlands. But the 1-2 horse and the horse did the favorite wasn’t good enough to rest. This horse has a lot of hold off Hot Shot Blue Chip trot to him. You don’t make (Revenue S) in the stretch drive $1 million not being able l to of the $200,000 race. trot a quarter in 26.” Hot Shot Blue Chip won by a Bred by Blue Chip Farms head over Chapter Seven. Arch and trained by Jonas Madness was third and Mister Czernyson, Hot Shot Blue Herbie checked in fourth and Chip paid $20. The win last. pushed his career earnings Driven by Jody Jamieson from over the $1 million mark, to the four post, Mister Herbie went $1,064,492. right to the lead, but Tim Tetrick Two races later on the Vernon card, Beatgoeson soon took matters into his own Hanover (Andover Hall) hands. Chapter Seven cleared captured the Muscle Hill for to the front after a quarter went trotting mares. Trond in 26.3 and was still in control Smedshammer, in town to through a half in 55.3. handle Arch Madness in the Approaching the far turn, Credit Winner, picked up the Corey Callahan made his move Hot Shot Blue Chip shocked Chapter Seven and two drive for trainer Nifty Nor- with Hot Shot Blue Chip and others in the Credit Winner at Vernon man. collared Chapter Seven at the Maybe Smedshammer should do this more often. top of the lane. From there to the wire, he was the better The even-money favorite Cedar Dove took control on the horse. backstretch, but had no response when the cavalry charge “He’s a funny horse,” trainer Linda Toscano said of Chap- began in the stretch. Beatgoeson Hanover came second ter Seven. “He does better when he’s chasing horses and over, wheeled out for the drive and got there to win by he has a target. Timmy was conscious of fact there was no three quarters of a length over huge long shot Four passing lane. So I think he was trying to keep the horse he Damsals. Cedar Dove faded to sixth. thought he had to beat (Mister Herbie) in the two hole. I “I’ll take ‘em any way I can get him,” Smedshammer said think he underestimated (Hot Shot Blue Chip) tonight. I of his unusual win as a catch driver. “It worked out good; it think that horse put in a huge, huge mile. was a perfect trip for me. She is a nice mare and got the “Sure, it is disappointing. If you put a target in front of him job done and got the job done a few times this year. For he will chase anything down. With the pressure of him being me to compare her to some other great mares would be who he is we had to race him differently, so he became the tough, would be unfair.” target. I didn’t give Tim any instructions. He’s the greatest Beatgoeson Hanover paid $15.80. In her prior start, she driver in North America right now, so I’m not going to say won a leg of the Miss Versatility Series at 24-1. anything ro him. He’ll beat himself up more than anyone I know after the fact. Sometimes you’re better off in a big field © Copyright Harness Racing Update. where strategy and pace come into play. It’s different in a This newspaper may not be reproduced in any form or by four-horse race. It turns into a sprint.” any means, electronic or mechanical, without prior written The time for the mile was 1:51.2 permission of the copyright owner, MB Publishing Inc. Mister Herbie stayed in the pocket throughout and, even Information as to the races, race results and earnings was though there were only four horses in the race, he never obtained from results charts published by the United States found racing room in what must have been a frustrating Trotting Association and utilized here with the permission of performance for his connections the copyright owner. HarnessRacingUpdate.com • 9/8/12 PAGE 2 of 14 Kentuckiana to Downsize, Sell Breeding Stock (Press release from Kentuckiana Farms) A reduction of the Kentuckiana Farms equine inventory will occur in November of this year at Harrisburg, Pa., as part of the annual Standardbred Horse Sales Company Mixed Sale. Kentuckiana will remain active in the business by maintain- ing a smaller, more select broodmare operation, and con- tinue its boarding and consignment/agency operations and its highly successful stallion operation, Kentuckiana Stallion Management. On the yearling sales side of its business, Kentuckiana will continue with its involvement in the Lexington Selected Sales Company, Forest City Yearling Sales and the Indiana Premier Yearling Sale. The farm's 2012 yearling crop is now available for inspec- tion at the farm by appointment. Quigley, Stillings, McKee, Heyden Newest Hall of Famers Robert (Bob) Quigley, the founding father of the dominant Meadowlands racetrack, from personnel to operating to racing philosophy, and Richard (Dick) Stillings, trainer and driver of many champion horses and contin- uing on as an excellent catch-driver, have been voted harness racing’s highest honor – membership in Har- ness Racing’s Living Hall of Fame. At the same time, Bob (Holly- wood) Heyden and Sam McKee, who took different paths but came together as the very best of today’s sulky communicators while both employed by The Meadowlands, New Hall of Famer have been voted into the Communi- Bob Quigley cators Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame voting is con- ducted by the U.S. Harness Writers Association (USHWA), with an independent accounting firm tallying and verifying the final results. The Living Hall of Famers are voted on by qualified USHWAns and by current members of the Living Hall of Fame, and the general membership of USHWA selects its peers for enshrinement in the Communicators Hall. The Trotting Leader Cantab Hall 2012’s Leading Money-Winning Sire 2-Year-Old Trotters: $1,438,154 2012’s Leading Money-Winning Sire 3-Year-Old Trotters: $3,371,333 2012’s Leading Money-Winning Sire All-Age Trotters: $6,426,812 And again this year, among the leading sires of 2:00 2-year-old trotters, behind only Donato Hanover. The proven sire of classics winners and millionaires also has the envious advantage of being eligible to the rich Pennsylvania Sire Stakes program. CLICK HERE for Cantab Hall's current leaders (USTA) Cantab Hall’s undefeated 2-year-old colt WHEELING N DEALIN 2,1:55 ($130,382), recent winner of the Champlain in stakes record time. Put His 2012 Yearlings at the Top of Your List! Phone (717) 637-8931 • Fax (717) 637-6766 hanoverpa.com • [email protected] GSI, LLC 2012 / Photos: Monica Thors, New Image Media HarnessRacingUpdate.com • 9/8/12 PAGE 3 of 14 Bob Quigley was already an experienced racing official stays healthy, I think we're in good shape." from years at Atlantic City Race Course when tapped by Market Share won't have an easy assignment Saturday. impresario Sonny Werblin to oversee the construction and He drew the nine post and will have to deal with a rejuve- early development of the revolutionary Meadowlands, a nated Little Brown Fox (Muscles Yankee), who will go one-mile track in the shadow of New York City which quickly from post one. After breaking stride in the elims for the became the world leader in harness racing while also con- Hambletonian, Little Brown Fox has won two of his last ducting quality thoroughbred racing. Quigley brought along three, including a win over this track a week earlier in the an unprecedented number of able “lieutenants” who now fill Simcoe. the highest managerial ranks of both standardbred and "He's been really on his game lately," driver Yannick thoroughbred racing, and his innovation and insight into the Gingras said of Little Brown Fox, who is trained by Jimmy mind of the customer set the tone for racetrack oversight for Takter. "Actually, he was very hot in the post parade last decades to come. week, which I'm sure affected his performance. I warmed Dick Stillings had long established himself as one of the him up myself because Jimmy (Takter) was away and he top horsemen at The Meadows (near Pittsburgh) when local tends to get hot in the warm up, so he asked me to, but he owner Roy Davis decided to use Stillings as his was very quite and calm. He's better than he showed last trainer/driver for a foray into Grand Circuit racing. Develop- week, there's no doubt about that." ing horses that often cost one-third to one-quarter what The first elim for the Canadian Trotting Classic didn't other, larger outfits were paying to try to attain success, come up as strong.