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Don't Be Shut Out! FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2019 ©2019 HORSEMAN PUBLISHING CO., LEXINGTON, KY USA • FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION CALL (859) 276-4026 Atlanta Comes Marching Into International Trot DON’T BE SHUT OUT! Driver Yannick Gingras is hoping 3 is his lucky number on Saturday afternoon at Yonkers Raceway. As in Gingras will be starting from post 3 with Atlanta in the $1 million Yonkers International Trot, in drive number 3 in the 1 ¼-mile race against some of the best horses on the planet. CHAMPIONS CENTER, SPRINGFIELD, OH Atlanta is also the 3-1 morning-line favorite in the contest, scheduled as Race 7 on the card “I think she is that gets underway at 1 p.m. (EDT). NOVEMBER 19-20-21, 2019 ready. We have Gingras drove Hannelore a good post Hanover to a seventh-place finish BLACK TYPE SESSION - TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19 and she’ll give in the 2016 Yonkers International Mixed sale entries will close a good account and after sitting out the next year, around OCTOBER 12 (or when full). of herself.” he returned in 2018 to finish fourth –Yannick Gingras with Ariana G. Enter online now at www.bloodedhorse.com “I can’t say that I was happier with one or the other coming into the race before,” said Gin- gras. “All three of them, knock on wood, were lucky at the draw and drew well.” Atlanta’s seven wins this year includes her world record 1:49.1 effort in the $250,000 Graduate final on July 6 at the Meadowlands. The 4-year-old mare comes into the race off a “There’s No Substitute for Experience” track record 1:51.4 victory in the $220,000 Charlie Hill Memo- JERRY HAWS CHARLES MORGAN (937) 947-1218 rial on Sept. 7 at Scioto Downs, although she’s since won a P.O. Box 187 • Wilmore, Kentucky 40390 Phone: (859) 858-4415 • Fax: (859) 858-8498 SHETLER & ASSOCIATES Sept. 24 qualifier at Harrah’s Philadelphia (1:53/:27.2) and [email protected] Auctioneers then went a public training mile on Oct. 1 at Yonkers. “Atlanta qualified really good and I was happy with her, and when I trained her at Yonkers I was REALLY happy with $1 MILLION YONKERS INT’L TROT her,” said Gingras. “She trained better than she qualified. Yonkers Raceway, Saturday, Oct. 12, Race 7, Post Time: 3:00 pm She was perfect and I couldn’t be any happier.” Post—Horse (Country) Driver Odds Atlanta has made 35 starts over her career, but only two 1—Slide So Easy (Denmark) A. Svanstedt/F. Jensen 10-1 on a half-mile track. Those were her first two starts as a 2 2—Bahia Quesnot (France) J. Guelpa 5-1 year old, and she broke both times in New York Sires Stakes 3—Atlanta (U.S.) Y. Gingras/R. Burke 3-1 at Yonkers and Batavia Downs. 4—Uza Josselyn (Switzerland) E. Adielsson/R. Aebischer 5-1 Thus, trainer Ron Burke and Gingras wanted to give the 5—Zacon Gio (Italy) R. Vecchione/H. Ehlert 8-1 daughter of Chapter Seven a spin over the Yonkers oval in 6—Marion Marauder (Canada) S. Zeron/P. Wellwood 6-1 7—Cruzado Dela Noche (Sweden) B. Sears/M. Melander 8-1 preparation for the added-distance contest. Gingras said At- 8—Lionel (Norway) G. Antonsen 8-1 lanta’s 1 ¼-mile training session went in 2:26. In comparison, 9—Guardian Angel As (U.S.) T. Tetrick/A. Lorentzon 4-1 Cruzado Dela Noche won last year’s International in 2:24.3. 10—Norton Commander (Germany) C. Lugauer 15-1 Continues on page 2 ›››› WHAT’S INSIDE . International Trot Snapshots—pg. 4 Lexington sale finishes strong—pg. 15 Pair of Invitationals at Yonkers—pg. 11 Ultimate Beachboy tries for comeback—pg. 15 Missy Essig has top Ind. contenders—pg. 12 JK American Beauty favored—pg. 16 Saturday Super Night at Woodbine—pg. 14 Meadowlands fall meet starts Friday—pg. 17 World champion Lather Up retired—pg. 14 Pinkman retired from racing—pg. 17 HarnessRacing Weekend Preview, 2 of 19 October 11, 2019 www.harnessracing.com “Training her last week, of course I didn’t go fast early,” said Gingras. “I went in 2:26 and it was like a walk in the FREE THIS WEEKEND’S park. I went a half in 1:01.3, so she came 1:24.2 the last Program FEATURED RACES three-quarters like it was nothing.” Pages Gingras said in preparation for Sunday’s race he watched All times listed are local. videos of the foreign horses he was unfamiliar with. He ad- Friday, October 11 mitted his homework came in conflict with personal time 9:30p HoP11 INSS Super Final 3CT Trackmaster PPs with his son, Jaiden. 10:06p HoP13 INSS Super Final 3CP Trackmaster PPs “I was watching hockey (Tuesday night) with my son and I Click here to download all Friday PPs told him I hoped he wouldn’t mind because I was going in Saturday, October 12 to watch replays,” he said. “There were two hours between 3:00p YR7 Yonkers International Trot Trackmaster PPs his off-ice and on-ice training, so I went and sat in the car 3:20p YR8 Harvey Invitational Trot Trackmaster PPs with an iPad and I watched replays for an hour and a half. 4:230p YR11 Rooney Invitational Pace Trackmaster PPs When (Jaiden) came back and I was still watching replays, 7:30p Wbsb2 ONSS Super Final 2FP Trackmaster PPs he said to me, ‘Is everybody doing this?’ I said, ‘I don’t 8:50p Wbsb6 ONSS Super Final 2CT Trackmaster PPs know if they are, but they should.’ 9:30p Wbsb8 ONSS Super Final 3CP Trackmaster PPs “The more I know about them, and the same thing with 9:35p Nfld9 Courageous Lady 3FP Trackmaster PPs them toward me. You have to know about the competition. 9:50p Wbsb9 ONSS Super Final 3CT Trackmaster PPs Now I do know a little bit more. You learn about the horses Click here to download all Saturday PPs and you learn about their tendencies and about their gait. You try and learn as much as you can about the other horses.” Visit www.trackmaster.com Despite the preparation, Gingras admits he is unsure of and subscribe to download his race strategy. full cards from your favorite tracks! “I’m not even sure what the ideal trip would be,” he said. “Maybe the ideal trip would be to be second or third-over, HarnessRacing Weekend Preview and have a couple of the favorites mix it up and we take up Kathy Parker Heather Kemper the pieces. There are many options and I’m not sure which [email protected] [email protected] is the better one. Atlanta’s handy and you can do whatever Editor/ General Manager Production Manager you want with her, so she doesn’t need a certain trip. Lynne Myers Hannah Reynolds [email protected] [email protected] “I think she is ready. We have a good post and she’ll give a Advertising Manager Editorial Production good account of herself.” Gordon Waterstone Vanessa Flannery Having two trailers in the 10-horse field also makes things [email protected] [email protected] Associate Editor Accounting & Circulation a bit more difficult. Starting from post 9 is the U.S.-based For mail sent via U.S. Postal Service, Guardian Angel As, who in August bested Atlanta in both either P.O. Box 8480, Lexington, KY 40533, the elim and final of the Maple Leaf Trot at Woodbine Mo- or 1910 Harrodsburg Rd., Suite 200, Lexington, KY 40503. (859) 276-4026 hawk Park. © Copyright Horseman Publishing Company. “They definitely do come into play,” said Gingras. A product of Horseman Publishing Company, publishers of the website www.harnessracing.com and The Horseman And Fair World magazine. “Guardian Angel with post 9 is definitely a player. The other This newspaper may not be reproduced in any form or by any means, one (Germany-based Norton Commander) is a player as electronic or mechanical, without prior written permission. well. They come into play because if you back off the gate, you have to deal with those two. It makes taking off the To sign up for the Weekend Preview please visit gate a little more difficult.”—By Gordon Waterstone www.harnessracing.com/members_sign_up.php HarnessRacing Weekend Preview, 4 of 19 October 11, 2019 www.harnessracing.com Yonkers International Trot Snapshots “This is maybe his best season since we’ve had him,” Bjerregaard said. “Either he wins or he’s second and he’s POST 1—SLIDE SO EASY—DENMARK been winning against really nice horses in Sweden. He Slide So Easy, Denmark’s representative in the Yonkers In- did two new lifetime marks this year as well. He’s just ternational, flew to the U.S. ahead of the rest of the European been really good this year. entrants this year. Accompanied by his caretaker Martin Bjer- “It is kind of a surprise,” Bjerregaard continued. “He is 10 years regaard, Slide So Easy arrived stateside early and shipped to old and it seems like he’s the best he’s ever been. It is kind of Åke Svanstedt’s Legend Farm in Wrightstown, N.J. surprising for him to be in that good shape as a 10 year old.” “He’s not really that good when you have to do a long travel As far as his training, Bjerregaard said he has worked the like that,” Bjerregaard said. “We just wanted to come over a horse in intervals on the sand track at Legend Farm.
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