ACCEPTING ENTRIES This Saturday Night’S Card at the Downs at Mohegan Sun for the Pocono Will Set the Stage for the Track’S Big Sun Saturday Program on June 29
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FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2019 ©2019 HORSEMAN PUBLISHING CO., LEXINGTON, KY USA • FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION CALL (859) 276-4026 3 Hempt Elims At Pocono; Captain Crunch, Workin Ona Mystery Skipping Race ACCEPTING ENTRIES This Saturday night’s card at The Downs at Mohegan Sun For The Pocono will set the stage for the track’s big Sun Saturday program on June 29. This Saturday eliminations will be held for the Max C. Hempt Memorial for 3-year-old pacing colts, James Lynch Memorial for 3-year-old pacing fillies, Earl Beal Jr. Memorial for 3-year-old trotting colts, and Ben Franklin for older pacers. So who’s the favorite to win the $500,000 Max C. Hempt AUGUST 27 & 28, 2019 Memorial Pace? The cast is noticeably different than the one racing enthusiasts saw for the Pepsi North America Cup. BLACK TYPE YEARLING SESSION — TUESDAY, AUGUST 27 First of all, NA Cup champ Captain Crunch is skipping the • BLACK TYPE YEARLING ENTRIES CLOSE JULY 1 • Hempt. “We want to go to the Meadowlands Pace and if we went ENTER ONLINE AT to Hempt, he wasn’t going to get a break,” explained trainer www.bloodedhorse.com Nancy Johansson. “He’s got to get a break sometime. Be- sides, there’s too much uncertainty at Pocono. I don’t want to have to race him out of the nine hole there.” NA Cup runner-up Bettor’s Wish was not eligible to the Hempt. NA Cup third-place finisher Workin Ona Mystery is also skipping the Hempt and being pointed to the Meadow- lands Pace. “There’s No Substitute for Experience” Although Workin Ona Mystery was the beaten betting fa- JERRY HAWS CHARLES MORGAN vorite in the Cup, trainer Brian Brown said he was happy P.O. Box 187 • Wilmore, Kentucky 40390 (937) 947-1218 Phone: (859) 858-4415 • Fax: (859) 858-8498 SHETLER & ASSOCIATES with his colt’s performance. [email protected] Auctioneers “He got parked to the half in :52.4 and was only beat a length and a half,” noted Brown. Workin Ona Mystery won his NA Cup elim impressively in WHAT’S INSIDE . 1:49 with a :26.3 final quarter after starting from post posi- Summit In Sight headed to Beal elim—pg. 2 tion 9. But Brown drove up from his Ohio base to attend the Greenshoe matures on road to Hambo—pg. 4 NA Cup press conference and while there he revealed his Crystal Fashion vs. Atlanta in Graduate—pg. 5 colt was scoped after the race and “When Proof had enough mucous that they sent Ones To Watch—pg. 6 raced at Philly him to a hyperbaric chamber in Lex- Breeding Banter—pg. 7 he didn’t steer ington, Ky., to hopefully accelerate Between Races with Bob Brady—pg. 8 very well.” recovery. –Brian Brown “We knew he was almost 100 per- Brown said both of his colts should race better than their cent before the race, but we scoped last past performance line. him afterward and he still had some mucous,” said Brown. “When Proof raced at Philly in the Sires Stakes (finishing While Workin Ona Mystery gets a break, Brown has en- last) he didn’t steer very well,” said Brown. “So they tered the 3-year-old pacers Air Force Hanover and Proof in checked his mouth and they found a piece of bone that was the Max Hempt Memorial eliminations. exposed. He needed that taken out and it took a little while There are three eliminations for the Hempt. Air Force for that to heal, and I think he’s much better now.” Hanover will start from post 6 in Race 1, with the field in- Air Force Hanover got a very good trip in the six-horse cluding NA Cup fourth-place finisher Aflame Hanover from North America Cup consolation last Saturday but finished post 1. Proof drew post 3 in Race 4, the second Hempt elim, third. Brown said this colt has “throat issues” that are “still and is second choice at 2-1. being addressed.”—By Kathy Parker HarnessRacing Weekend Preview, 2 of 10 June 21, 2019 www.harnessracing.com Well-Bred Summit In Sight FREE Progresses To Beal Elimination Program THIS WEEKEND’S Take a successful trotting filly with a $1-million win- Pages FEATURED RACES ning dam and offer her first colt by Muscle Hill at public All times listed are local. auction and you rightfully expect a good price. Summit Friday, June 21 In Sight fit that description and he brought the expected 8:55p M6 Graduate Trot div. Trackmaster PPs attention, selling for $300,000 to Stroy Inc. and the Andy 9:35p M8 Graduate Trot div. Trackmaster PPs Miller Stable. Click here to download all Friday PPs Summit In Sight is the third foal of Bluff, a stakes winner Saturday, June 22 of $172,182. Bluff’s dam, Blur, earned $1,0022,268 and was 7:00p PcD1 Hempt 3CP elim Trackmaster PPs the Dan Patch 3-Year-Old Filly Trotter of the Year in 2005. 7:18p PcD2 Beal 3CT elim Trackmaster PPs Blur’s production includes Bluto 3, 1:52.4f. Summit In Sight will be making his ninth career start in 7:36p PcD3 Hempt 3CP elim Trackmaster PPs Race 2 at The Downs at Mohegan Sun on Saturday night, 7:54p PcD4 Hempt 3CP elim Trackmaster PPs the first of two eliminations for the 8:12p PcD5 Lynch 3FP elim Trackmaster PPs “He’s just your Earl Beal Jr. Memorial Trot. 8:45p PcD7 Hempt 3CP elim Trackmaster PPs typical young Unfortunately, there was no quick 10:00p PcD11 Lynch 3FP elim Trackmaster PPs trotter...just pay down on the purchase price of 10:18p PcD12 Beal 3CT elim Trackmaster PPs immature.” Summit In Sight, although he now Click here to download all Saturday PPs –Julie Miller on has banked $72,831 in purses. The Summit In Sight colt was training down well last win- Visit www.trackmaster.com ter and spring when in May he suf- and subscribe to download fered a setback—a bout of colic. Surgery was not needed, full cards from your favorite tracks! but his training was interrupted. By the time Summit In Sight made it to the races it was HarnessRacing Weekend Preview mid-July. His pari-mutuel debut came in the Liberty Bell Kathy Parker Heather Kemper on Sept. 21 (finishing second). His next start turned out to [email protected] [email protected] be his last of the season. Editor/ General Manager Production Manager “He’s just your typical young trotter story you’ve heard Lynne Myers Hannah Reynolds a million times before. He was just immature,” said Julie [email protected] [email protected] Advertising Manager Editorial Production Miller, who trains Summit In Sight with her husband, Gordon Waterstone Vanessa Flannery Andy. “But we liked him a lot so we quit with him after [email protected] [email protected] the Lexington race.” Associate Editor Accounting & Circulation This year Summit In Sight has made steady progess, even For mail sent via U.S. Postal Service, while Julie Miller was sightseeing in Russia last month, either P.O. Box 8480, Lexington, KY 40533, or 1910 Harrodsburg Rd., Suite 200, Lexington, KY 40503. (859) 276-4026 which included a visit with Stroy principal Natalia Stroy, © Copyright Horseman Publishing Company. who lives in Moscow. A product of Horseman Publishing Company, publishers of the website Summit In Sight goes into the Beal with four wins and a www.harnessracing.com and The Horseman And Fair World magazine. second in six starts. He won a Pennsylvania Sires Stakes at This newspaper may not be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without prior written permission. Harrah’s Philadelphia on June 14 in 1:53, his lifetime best. When asked if the colt has more speed, Julie Miller To sign up for the Weekend Preview please visit quipped, “He better have if he’s going to race against www.harnessracing.com/members_sign_up.php Greenshoe!”—By Kathy Parker SOOLD ANOTHER NORTH AMERICA CUP WINNER 2YO Daan Paatch Champiop n and 3YO North Ameriica Cupu winner CAPPTAIN CRUNCCH Owned by 3 Brothers Stables, Rojano Stables, ChristinaTakter and CaviartFarms, trained by Nancy Johansson and drivenby ScotttZeron. Sold at the 2017 Harrisburg Yeaarlling Sale by breedders Walnridge Farma & Sherri Meeirs. Includding Captain Crunch’s victory inthis year’sevent, six of thelast eight $1,000,000 NorthhAmerica Cup winnersthat sold at public auuction were sold atHarrisburg.Not only that... Atlanta’s Canadian record wininthe $256,000 ArmbroFlight made it five straigght years thataHarrisburg yearling grad has wonthat prestigious racee. THIS FALL:A FULL BROTHER TO CAPTAINA CRUNCH | MUUSCLE HILL 1/2-SISTER TTO ATTLANTA GSI, LLC 2019 | Photo: New Image Media NOVVEMBER 4-8 n a e om n HarnessRacing Weekend Preview, 4 of 10 June 21, 2019 www.harnessracing.com Greenshoe Showing Maturity Lisa/Lisa Photo Michael On Road To Hambo Five of the 10 horses in the Road to the Hambletonian rank- ings produced by Meadowlands Racetrack announcer/analyst Ken Warkentin will be in action Saturday (June 22) in elimina- tions for the Earl Beal Jr. Memorial at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, with No. 1 Greenshoe headlining the event. But can anyone beat Greenshoe? He won the New Jersey Sires Stakes with a 1:50.2 performance, and while Reign Of Honor finished second to Greenshoe in that race and trotted his own mile in 1:51.3, no other sophomore has a winning time faster than 1:52. Greenshoe prepped for the Beal with a 28-length victory in a qualifier at Pocono on June 12.