The Official Newsletter of the Breeders & Owners Association of New Jersey Vol. 39, No. 6 Representing owners, breeders, drivers, trainers & caretakers TRIXTON TO STAND STUD AT DEO VOLENTE Trixton, the 2014 Hambletonian champion, has been retired and will stand stud at Deo Volente Farms in Flemington, NJ for the 2015 breeding season, it was jointly announced by Hall of Fame trainer-driver Jimmy Takter and Mike Gulotta, majority owner of Deo Volente. “I’m excited that this great colt will stand in New Jersey at such a great farm like Deo Volente” said Takter, who makes his home at Millennium Farm, his training center in East Windsor, NJ. “Trixton represents a significant new beginning for the New Jersey breeding industry in tune with Jeff Gural’s enlightened stewardship at the New Mead- owlands racetrack,” Gulotta said. “We think Mike Gulotta has demonstrated great fore- sight to stand Trixton in New Jersey,” said Standard- bred Breeders & Owners Association President Tom Luchento. “We hope breeders will share his faith in the future of the New Jersey program and breed their mares to Trixton.” In two seasons of racing, Trixton earned $947,057, taking his mark of 1:50.3 while defeating Nuncio in the Hambletonian, despite racing the entire mile Trixton parked on the outside. Trixton is by , a son of Muscles Yankee, who is responsible for consecutive Hambletonian win- ners Deweycheatumnhowe [2008], Muscle Hill [2009] and Muscle Massive [2010]. Muscles Yankee is the foremost son of foundation sire Valley Victory. Trixton is link number four in a leading sire line. Trixton will stand for a fee of $12,000 in 2015. Syndication term sheets will be available at Harrisburg from Mike Gulotta and Bob Marks, and can also be obtained by calling Deo Volente Farms at 908-782-4848. NJRC'S NEW MEDICATION RULES EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 3 The New Jersey Racing Commission’s new medication rules will go into effect starting November 3, 2014. Trainers and veterinarians are urged to review them, especially the changes in dosing for Betamethasone and Dexa- methasone along with the recommended withdrawal time for Clenbuterol. There are 26 medications categorized as Controlled Therapeutic Medications. These medications are permissible only when a race horse tests below the threshold levels set forth in the RCI Controlled Therapeutic Medication Schedule, Version 2.1. The schedule may be found on the web at arci.com. Choose Model Rules and Standards and then ARCI Controlled Therapeutic Medication Schedule - V.2.1. Pay particular attention to the dosing specifications for Betamethasone and Dexamethasone. The threshold level for Betamethasone will decrease from 100pg/ml of plasma or serum to 10pg/ml of plasma or serum. The threshold level for Dexamethasone will decrease from 100pg/ml of plasma or serum to 5pg/ml of plasma or serum. The recommended withdrawal time for Clenbuterol will increase to 14 days. The presence of Clenbuterol will not be allowed in plasma or serum and the threshold level for urine is 140pg/ml. —Issued by Dr. Deborah Lamparter, Chief State Veterinarian, New Jersey Racing Commission

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A year from now, there is every expectation that Owner-breeder Mike Gulotta and his partners at the state-wide ballot will include a referendum Deo Volente Farm recognized this with their deci- question about the addition of casino wagering in sion to stand Hambletonian winner Trixton in New North Jersey. Jersey for the 2015 breeding season. Hopefully, others will share this vision and breed to New Jer- We are working with professionals in the field of sey stallions for what we expect will be a revitalized preparing ballot questions and campaigns as we program, including more racing dates, once casino embark on the stretch run for financial security for funding is in place. the New Jersey racing and breeding industry. We would like to take this opportunity to extend While we can see the finish line after many years our condolences to the family of Robert Baggitt Sr., of effort on the part of the Standardbred Breeders who was a devoted SBOANJ board member for & Owners Association and our political action com- nearly three decades. Filling Bob’s seat will be An- mittee, TrotPAC, this is not the time to drop the bit. thony Perretti. We will be glad to have his exper- In fact, it is essential that we maintain a straight tise back on the board as a member of the owners’ course to our goal. committee. We need to ensure that our industry is protected. It Finally, we send our best wishes to our colleagues is no small matter that we be guaranteed a per- at Monmouth Park as they pursue the legal maze centage of the expanded gaming that will be suffi- for the addition of sports wagering. Their success cient to fuel a healthy purse structure for horse rac- is our success. Establishing the guidelines for ing now and into the future. sports gaming in New Jersey will ultimately be Toward that end, we continue to meet with our good for us as it would open the doors for the same friends in the state legislature, reminding them of operations at our harness tracks. the importance of our industry to the health and Hope to see you all at the Meadowlands to support well-being of the state’s economy. We represent the upcoming meet which opens on November 14 jobs and preserved farms, both valuable commodi- and features two nights of the ac- ties in this state. tion, November 21-22.

STANDARDBRED BREEDERS & OWNERS ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY 64 Business Route 33, Manalapan, NJ 07726 Phone: 732-462-2357 Fax: 732-409-0741 Email: [email protected] Website: www.sboanj.com

OFFICERS DIRECTORS RACETRACK REP IMPORTANT Thomas F. Luchento Robert Boni Linda Goss PHONE NUMBERS President Stephen P. Dey III VMD Meadowlands 201-842-5075 Ed Razzetti Freehold 732-252-2323 New Jersey Sire Stakes First Vice President 609-292-8830 Michael J. Gulotta Ext 4365 Alfred Ochsner Jr. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL Harness Horsemen Second Vice President Kelvin Harrison International Mark Ford AJ Sabath 609-747-1000 Jacqueline Ingrassia Third Vice President LEGAL COUNSEL License/Fingerprint Dennis Lane Richard Meirs VMD Dennis Dowd NJ Racing Commission Treasurer Mark Mullen Trenton—609-292-0613 Anthony Romano PACESETTER EDITOR Freehold — 732-462-3800 Secretary Anthony Perretti Meadowlands—201-460-4137 Carol Hodes Leo McNamara NJ Trailer Ban—NJTP Paul Wojtowicz [email protected] Executive Administrator 800-336-5875

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SBOANJ DIRECTOR BAGGITT PASSES AWAY Robert M. Baggitt Sr., 81, of Allentown, NJ, a longtime horse owner and a member of the Standardbred Breeders & Owners Association Board of Directors since 1985, passed away on Wednesday, October 1, 2014. Baggitt was on the owner, finance, pension and special events committees of the SBOANJ. For many years, he co-chaired the SBOANJ’s golf outing, which each year raised money for the horsemen’s benevolent fund. It was through his wife of 54 years, Sandra, and her father, driver-trainer Larry Powers, that he was introduced to . His son, Bob Jr. and nephew, Jack Baggitt Jr. are both horsemen. Baggitt joined the Navy and served on a destroyer from 1951 to 1956, during the Korean War, and worked for New Jersey Bell Telephone for 37 years, starting as a lineman and retiring as a repair supervisor in 1991. For many years he was a school bus driver in Up- per Freehold Township while his wife oversaw their 12-acre farm in Allentown, NJ, which is called O-No Acres. He was a member of American Legion Post No. 54, Freehold, the Tin Can Sailor Associa- tion, a member of Colts Neck Fire Company No. 1 from 1960 to 1980, and a founding member of the Colts Neck First Aid Squad. He was a member of the first group of officers to serve in Colts Neck Township Police Department, a Colts Neck Little League coach, and Boy Scout leader in Colts Neck. Surviving are his wife, Sandra Powers Baggitt; his children, Robert M. Baggitt, Jr. and his wife Christine, Ellen Cunningham and her husband Michael, Larry Baggitt and wife Tina, Robert M. Baggitt Sr. Timothy Baggitt and wife Kelly, Nancy and husband Robert Fitts; two sisters Rosemary with his wife, Sandra. Smock and June Higgins and her husband Larry; his grandchildren, Tyler Baggitt, Erica McDonald, Logan and Connor Cunningham, Alessandra, Lauren, Christina and Riley Bag- gitt; and Bob J. and Jesse Fitts; great grandchildren Ella McDonald and Rylee Fitts. MOVING TO THE MEADOWLANDS The Cane Pace will find a new home at the Meadowlands as part of the stakes-laden Hambletonian Day card on August 8, 2015. In addition to the Cane Pace, its filly companion race, the Shady Daisy, will also join the Hambletonian Day program. The Meadowlands will also be adding a race to complement the John Cashman Memorial Trot with a stakes for older trotting mares on Hambletonian Day. SBOANJ OFFICERS RE-ELECTED; PERRETTI REJOINS THE BOARD President Tom Luchento and his slate of officers were re-elected by the Board of Directors and Anthony Perretti was selected to fill a vacancy at the monthly meet- ing of the Standardbred Breeders & Owners Association of New Jersey at its Ma- nalapan office on Monday, October 20, 2014. Perretti, a former Board member, returns to fill the vacancy created in the owners’ category by the death on October 1 of Robert M. Baggitt Sr. The re-elected officers include President Thomas F. Luchento, First Vice President Edward Razzetti, Second Vice President Alfred B. Ochsner Jr., Third Vice President Mark Ford, Treasurer Dennis Lane and Secretary Anthony Romano. Anthony Perretti Also on the Board of Directors are Robert Boni, Dr. Stephen P. Dey, Michael Gu- lotta, Kelvin Harrison, Jacqueline Ingrassia, Dr. Richard Meirs, Mark Mullen, Paul A. Wojtowicz and the newly added Anthony Perretti. The Board Meeting was preceded by the Annual Membership Meeting.

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NJSS– GREEN ACRES FINALS FOR 2014 AT FREEHOLD

Broken Record Rock N’ Roll World

Demons N Diamonds Strut My Stuff

Shelikescandy Cut A Deal

Angels Ransom Nubble Light Date Class Winner Sire Driver Trainer Time 09-18 2yo C&G Trot Broken Record Muscles Yankee Ray Schnittker 2:00.1 10-03 2yo F Trot Demons N Diamonds Muscle Hill Daniel Dube John McDermott Jr 2:00 10-04 3yoC&G Pace Nubble Light Rocknroll Hanover Steve Smith Deleston Cote 1:55 10-09 3yo F Trot Shelikescandy Chocolatier Steve Smith Dawn Anderson 2:03.3 10-10 2yo F Pace Strut My Stuff Western Ideal Jack Baggitt Jr Ross Croghan 1:55.3 10-11 2yo C&G Pace Rock N’ Roll World Rocknroll Hanover Jack Baggitt Jr Nifty Norman 1:58 10-18 3yo F Pace Cut A Deal Rocknroll Hanover George Brennan Nick Surick 1:54.2 10-30 3yo C&G Trot Angels Ransom Revenue George Brennan Roland Mallar 1:56.4 Photos by Helene Gregory for World Wide Racing Photos PACESETTER SBOANJ.COM 4 November/December 2014

NEW JERSEY FUTURITIES AT FREEHOLD

$42,000 3yoPace: Gold Rocks [Rocknroll Hanover] D: George $25,000 3yoTrot: Sumatra [Muscles Yankee] D: / T: Brennan/ T: Tony Alagna - 1:53.1 - O: Mystical Marker, Eagles Soar Part- Tom Fanning - 1:57.2 - O: Joseph Smith - B: Perretti Farms & Black ners, Alan Alber & Joe Sbrocco—B: Emerald Highlands Farm.—9/6/14 Horse Racing —10/16/14

$43,000 2yoPace: Western Pioneer [Western Ideal] D: Tim $33,500 2yoTrot: SS Poseidon [Muscle Hill] D: Steve Smith/ T: Tetrick/ T: Nancy Johansson - 1:55.2 - O: 3 Brothers Stables & Nancy Erv Miller - 2:00.3 - O: Paymaq Racing & Shim Racing LLC—B: Mary Johansson B: Hanover Shoe Farms —10/25/14 Jane Anderson & Shim Racing —10/10/14

Photos by Helene Gregory for World Wide Racing Photos MAKE YOUR PLANS FOR BREEDERS CROWN WEEKEND Details for dining and reserved seat options for Breeders Crown weekend - November 21-22 -- at the Mead- owlands are now posted. A buffet at $44.95 per person will be available in a heated trackside tent while the menu will be ala carte in the Victory Sports Bar. Pink, the trackside dining room, will be restricted to horsemen with horses competing in the Breeders Crown. To reserve a table, contact Andrea Caswell at 201 460-4214. Both nights of the Breeders Crown Finals are “blackout dates” at Trotters, which will only be open for mem- bers on Friday, November 21 and Saturday, November 22. Members should book space by contacting Marianne Rotella at 201 842-5059. Racing fans looking for a seat close to the action can reserve an inside grandstand seat at a cost of $15 per seat, per day. The grandstand seats are located on the second floor and overlook the racetrack. Ad- vanced purchase of indoor grandstand seating can be arranged by calling 201 460-4079. Seating is lim- ited. Menus and other Breeders Crown details are posted on playmeadowlands.com.

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MAGGI ROMANO SELECTED FOR “SPIRT OF THE HORSE” AWARD Margret “Maggi” Romano, a founding member of tor of the Rutgers Equine Science Center. the Standardbred Pleasure Horse Association, has Romano served two years as president and one been selected to receive the 2015 Spirit of the year as show manager of the Standardbred Pleas- Horse Award from the Rutgers Equine Science Cen- ure Horse Organization of New Jersey [SPHO/NJ]. ter. She is a board member of the New Jersey Horse Romano, who re- Council, serving two years as president and as a sides in Clarksburg, delegate to the New Jersey Equine Advisory Board, NJ, is the wife of An- where she served two years as vice chair and two thony Romano, a years as chair. member of the Previous recipients include: Sandy Denarski, Dr. Board of Directors of David Meirs II, Dr. Stephen P. Dey, Elizabeth Durkin, the Standardbred Breeders & Owners Toni Nigito, Rick Wills, Nancy Jaffer, Linda Toscano, Association of New Dr. Patty Hogan, and Peter Cofrancesco III. Jersey. Romano will receive her award at the Rutgers Equine Science Center’s Evening of Science and “The award recog- nizes people whose Celebration on November 10, 2014 at the Cook Maggi Romano lives have been im- Campus Center, 59 Biel Road, New Brunswick, NJ pacted by horses and who continue to give back to from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. horses and the equine industry through dedicated Tickets are $30. For information, contact Kyle Hart- time and service,” said Dr. Karyn Malinowski, direc- mann at 848-932-9419 or visit esc.rutgers.edu.

BONUS PROGRAM FOR NJ-SIRED HORSES BEGINS DECEMBER 5

The SBOANJ/Meadowlands bonus program for overnight races for New Jersey-sired horses debuts on Fri- day, December 5, 2014. Races meeting the condition of non-winners of one, two, three or four pari-mutuel races will carry a 60 per- cent bonus added to the purse for New Jersey-sired horses, who will have first preference. The bonus pro- gram encompasses both genders and gaits. The purse structure: Non-Winners of 1: $10,000 (Plus $6,000 for NJ-sired horses) Non-Winners of 2: $12,500 (Plus $7,500 for NJ-sired horses) Non-Winners of 3: $15,000 (Plus $9,000 for NJ-sired horses) Non-Winners of 4: $17,500 (Plus $10,500 for NJ-sired horses)

MEADOWLANDS TO HOST CROWNS AGAIN IN 2016 The Breeders Crown, harness racing’s year-end series, has awarded the 12 annual championship events through 2017 to two longtime partners: Woodbine Entertain- ment Group [2015] and the Meadowlands, [2016] along with a new Breeders Crown host track, Hoosier Park [2017] in Anderson, IN. Securing Breeders Crown sites in the long-term has been a top priority of Charlie Kel- ler, chairman of the executive committee of the Hambletonian Society, which owns and services the Breeders Crown races. “It’s better for everybody to do so,” said Keller. “For the horsemen and owners making payments, trainers planning their schedules and for tracks to prepare for a night as big as this, we want to give them as much lead time as possible.”

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SMITHS & DANCERS SHOWCASE NJ-SIRED TROTTERS

Skates N Plates Cee Bee Yes

SS Poseidon Southwind Cartier

The fall stakes schedule at Freehold Raceway benefits from a quartet of events sponsored by the Standard- bred Breeders & Owners Association of New Jersey for New Jersey-sired trotters, the Harold and Helen Dancers for three-year-olds and the Charles and Marion Smiths for two-year-olds. Southwind Cartier, by Muscle Hill and bred by Southwind Farm of Pennington, NJ, was the winner of the $35,000 Marion Dancer for fillies on September 4, responding to trainer-driver DR Ackerman for the Doug Ackerman Stables of Aberdeen, NC. The colts met in the $40,000 Harold Dancer on September 24 with SS Poseidon, also by Muscle Hill, sailing to victory for driver Steve Smith and trainer Erv Miller, on a sloppy track.. He races for Paymaq Racing of Long Grove, IL and his co-breeder Shim Racing of Deerfield, IL. In the $40,000 Helen Smith for fillies on September 5, Cee Bee Yes, a daughter of Muscles Yankee, equaled the stakes record 1:56.2 established by Silver Credit in 2013. Steve Smith also drove this Julie Miller trainee who is owned by Jason and Douglas Allen of Vincentown, NJ. She was bred by Perretti Farms of Cream Ridge, NJ. Trond Smedshammer was the trainer and driver of Skates N Plates who captured the $55,000 Charles Smith on September 12. The son of Revenue was bred by his owner, Robert J. Key of Leechburg, PA.

Date Stakes Winner Sire Driver Trainer Time 09-04 Marion Dancer Southwind Cartier Muscle Hill DR Ackerman DR Ackerman 2:04.2 09-05 Helen Smith Cee Bee Yes Muscles Yankee Steve Smith Julie Miller 1:56.2 09-12 Charles Smith Skates N Plates Revenue Trond Smedshammer Trond Smedshammer 1:56.3 09-25 Harold Dancer SS Poseidon Muscle Hill Steve Smith Erv Miller 2:00.1 Photos by Helene Gregory for World Wide Racing Photos PACESETTER SBOANJ.COM 7 November/December 2014 OPEN SPACE PACE III STEPS OFF WITH A PARADE

The third edition of the Open Space Pace on September 20, 2014 opened with what has become a tradition—a parade down Main Street to Freehold Raceway. Leading the parade [above], carrying the colors, was Suzanne D’Ambrose aboard her retired racehorse, Indy. The Grand Marshal was Dr. Karyn Malinowski [top left] who is riding her 21-year-old former racehorse Could Be Magic. Sam Landy [bottom left], who chaired the event, was joined in the Freehold winner’s circle by the children’s division contestants in a hat contest. Photos by Vicki Wright

QUALIFIERS AT THE MEADOWLANDS The first qualifiers for the fall Meadowlands standardbred meet will take place on Thursday, November 6, 2014. Post time is 9:30 a.m. and entries for the qualifiers close on Wednesday, November 5 at 9 a.m. Beginning with November 15, weekly qualifiers will take place on Saturday mornings at 9:30 a.m. The fall meet runs from November 14 to December 27 on Friday and Saturday evenings. The weekend of November 14-15 features the elimination races for the Breeders Crown with the finals of the year-end championship stakes on November 21-22. NEW MEADOWLANDS RULE FOR LATE & EARLY CLOSERS Beginning with the 2014-2015 live racing season at the Meadowlands, there will be a new condition at- tached to all Late and Early Closer Finals that limits the number of horses a trainer can enter into the final of those events. Conditions for all Late Closer and Early Closer Finals will carry the following clause: "No trainer may race more than two horses in this race. This does not apply to any horses raced in a trainer's stable from the first charted race of the horse’s career. Any trainer change that applies to the spirit of this condition must be made a minimum of 30 days in advance of the race date to be considered valid for the purpose of this race."