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By Bill Finley ORLANDO, Fla–When It Comes to Who Will Be Harness Racing's Horse of the Year F Who Will Be Pacer of the Year? Roll With Joe has been recognized as the outstanding By Bill Finley 3-year-old pacer of 2011 was 6 for 14 during the year. ORLANDO, Fla–When it comes to who will be harness Trained by Ed Hart and driven by Ron Pierce, his big wins racing’s Horse of the Year for 2011 there’s not much sus- came in the Meadowlands Pace, the Battle of the pense. Check Me Out (Donato Hanover) had a great year, Brandywine and the Messenger. but San Pail (San Pellegrino) is the 1-9 favorite to win the “He’s a horse who has been there all year,” Hart said of honor tomorrow night at the annual Dan Patch Awards Roll With Joe following his win in the Messenger. “It’s banquet. He all but clinched the title with his stirring win been a great season and he is a super horse. I have over two European stars in the Breeders Crown. He will, of course, also be named Trotter of the Year. trained a lot of horses and he is special.” Ironically, neither horse won a Breeders Crown event during 2011. Betterthancheddar (Bettor’s Delight) de- feated Roll With Joe in the 3-year-old Colt Pace and Bet- tor Sweet (Bettor’s Delight) triumphed over Foiled Again in the Older Male Pace. Perhaps that’s why some voters went in still other direc- tions. “I voted for See You At Peelers,” Phil Terry said. “She Foiled Again Roll With Joe was the best filly that raced during the year and she brought so much attention to the sport. More than any But Pacer of the Year? Now we’re talking interesting. other horse, she was such a great story.” Cont. p2 It was a year in which there were several good horses, but none that dominated from start to end. A case could be made for four or five, but it appears that the race will come down to two, Foiled Again (Dragon Again) and Roll With Joe (Cam’s Card Shark). Who will get it? It looks like it’s too close to call. “It has to be one or the other,” said voter Bob Heyden, who declined to reveal who he voted for. “It’s going to be a very close call. I think Roll With Joe might get it because he made more money ($1.64 million versus $1.4 million). Some voters get lazy and just look at that. He also comes out of the so called glamour division, the 3-year-old pacing colts, and that means something.” Trained by Ron Burke and driven by Yannick Gingras, Foiled Again was 14 for 28 during the year and had a mark of 1:48.1 at Mohawk. His top wins include the American Nationals, the Indiana Pacing Derby, the Quillen Memorial and the Molson. Along the way, he also dispatched the knock that he is merely a half-mile track specialist. “He was a warrior,” said Jason Settlemoir, who voted for Foiled Again, who is now 8. “He started early in the Levy series and raced with domination throughout the year. In my eyes, he is certainly Pacer of the Year. He was pretty spe- cial. But I know the voting is going to be tight.” “What Foiled Again did this year was just unbelievable,” said voter Roger Huston. It seemed like you could always count on him.” HarnessRacingUpdate.com • 2/12/12 PAGE 2 of 8 ‘Who Will Be Pacer of the Year?’ cont. It was precisely this pedigree that made San Pellegrino Who will win? The search for clues doesn’t shed much a $145,000 yearling when he went through the sale ring light on the situation. In the final 2011 Top 10 poll released under the named Double Delight at Tattersalls in 1997. He by Harness Racing Communications, neither Foiled Again was a long-bodied, dark bay with a small star. nor Roll With Joe received the most points among pacers. Valley Victory was the pinnacle of trotting then, having That honor went to We Will See (Western Hanover), yet he sired such brilliant trotters as Victory Dream, Donerail, lost to Foiled Again in the voting for champion older pacer. Continentalvictory, Muscles Yankee, Lindy Lane, Bullville In the HRC poll, We Will See had 208 points, while Roll Victory, Lookout Victory and others in his first two crops. With Joe had 183 and Foiled Again had 173. The top two The law of supply and demand worked to light a fire vote-getters were trotters San Pail and Check Me Out. under the prices paid for his Valley Victory yearlings. In the voting for divisional honors, Roll With Joe holds a When San Pellegrino arrived in 1996, he was one of only slight edge, He received 98 out of 116 votes cast. Foiled 43 foals that year by Valley Victory. Again had 88 votes in his divisional race. San Pellegrino's dam had a trio of previous foals that never earned a dime, but bidders tossed all caution to the winds when her colt by Valley Victory walked into the ring. Jimmy Takter had the final bid on behalf of his wife Chris- tina and partner Ken Ross of Pittsburgh. Racing under his new name, San Pellegrino was a step below the top freshman colts early in 1998 and thus he competed primarily in events for New Jersey-sired juve- niles. He won a Grand Circuit stakes at The Meadows in 1:59.3 in mid-August, his 2-year-old mark. In the fall, he began to improve. He was timed in 1:57 at Garden State finishing fifth in the Valley Victory behind Starchip Entrprise, Self Possessed, and Angus Hall. That earned him a chance in the Breeders Crown and he was third in his elimination behind Angus Hall and They’re Wild About San Pail in Warsaw Starchip Entrprise, timed in 1:55.2. Until that point, trainer By Dean A Hoffman Taker was his usual chauffeur. You know that San Pail, likely to be named the 2011 In the Breeders Crown final, however, Takter opted to Horse of the year tonight at the annual Dan Patch Awards steer Enjoy Lavec, the stronger half of his stable's entry. extravaganza, was the best trotter in North America last At least most people thought that Enjoy Lavec was better year, but what do you know about his family tree? than entrymate San Pellegrino. Chances are, nothing. Wally Hennessey got the driving assignment behind His sire is San Pellegrino. Isn't that the Italian mineral San Pellegrino and they quietly followed the leaders until water so popular is the stretch, then trotted past tiring horses to snag second chichi circles? Yes, place at CR Commando hit the wire in 1:53.2, the fastest but there was also a race mile ever by a freshman trotter. San Pellegrino was well-bred trotter by timed in an astonishing 1:54. (Enjoy Lavec was placed the same name. fifth in the race.) But where is the Two weeks later, San Pellegrino won the Matron with sire of San Pail Takter driving and his final two starts added right at standing the 2012 $169,000 to his earnings, finishing his first season with breeding season? $222,323. Poland. No, that's As a sophomore, San Pellegrino was second in the San Pellegrino (above), the sire of not a joke. Yes, San Dexter Cup, Yonkers Trot, and Charles Smith, but wasn't San Pail, has been exiled to Poland Pellegrino stands in among the top tier of colts and won only once in 13 tries. Poland. That was it. He went to stud in Ontario at Armstrong Bros. And what about San Pail's dam Village Beauty? She at a $4,000 fee and got a court of 97 mares. That first never won a race in her life and earned just $2,300. breeding season produced only 42 registered foals. The How could such a grand trotter come from this mating? next season he got only 29 foals from a book of 62 mares. It's the magic of genetics. That and a lot of patience and By 2003, San Pellegrino attracted only 37mares and professionalism on the part of trainer Rod Hughes. from that came 18 foals. His penultimate product in North There is certainly power in the blood of San Pellegrino. America arrived on June 2, 2004 in Port Perry, Ontario He is a son of Valley Victory out of a half-sister to the inter- and was brown colt later named San Pail. national starlet Peace Corps, the best female in the world of Cont. p3 trotting two decades ago. HarnessRacingUpdate.com • 2/12/12 PAGE 3 of 8 San Pail cont. San Pail's dam Village Beauty was 12 when he arrived and she'd already had a half-dozen foals. Four of those became respectable racehorses, but what is clearly missing is any early speed. Only one of Village Beauty's first six Going the Distance foals got a juvenile mark and that one was only 2:03.3. By Peter Kleinhans Valley Beauty is a Balanced Image mare rooted in the In the 9th race last Friday night at the Meadowlands, the female family of Twilight Hanover long cherished by the winner, barreling five-wide on the final turn, came from Armstrong Bros, the dominant breeder in Canada. 12th at the top of the stretch to Canadian horsemen learned long ago that the Balanced win.
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