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©2019 HORSEMAN PUBLISHING CO., LEXINGTON, KY USA • FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION CALL (859) 276-4026 Palone, Croghan Look To Rule Adios With Prince Of Tides DON’T BE SHUT OUT! Will a “Prince” rule in Saturday afternoon’s 53rd annual For The $400,000 Delvin Miller Adios Pace for the Orchids at The Meadows? Driver Dave Palone and trainer Ross Croghan sure hope so as they team up with Prince Of Tides, whose current five-race win streak includes an open-lengths, 1:49.4 score in his Adios elimination last Saturday. Three eliminations were con- AUGUST 27 & 28, 2019 tested, with the top three finishers in each advancing to the BLACK TYPE YEARLING SESSION — TUESDAY, AUGUST 27 final. The total field was re- • MIXED SALE ENTRIES WILL CLOSE WHEN FULL! • duced by one by the early ENTER ONLINE NOW AT scratch of arguably the pre-race favorite Workin Ona Mystery www.bloodedhorse.com due to sickness. The connections of the three elimination winners—all odds- on favorites on the toteboard— StallTZ.se/Adam Strom Photo earned the right to choose their “His strong suit is post for the final, and after that when you get Southwind Ozzi grabbed post 3 “There’s No Substitute for Experience” him up to speed and Captain Victorious post 4, JERRY HAWS CHARLES MORGAN he can carry it Croghan and Palone selected P.O. Box 187 • Wilmore, Kentucky 40390 (937) 947-1218 quite a ways. Phone: (859) 858-4415 • Fax: (859) 858-8498 SHETLER & ASSOCIATES post 1 for Prince Of Tides. It’s [email protected] Auctioneers Those kind of the same starting spot as the horses usually elim for Prince Of Tides, who Croghan noted Prince Of Tide’s imposing presence, one bode well here…” cruised to a six-length victory. that led to Palone finding a bigger sulky to use for the elim. –Dave Palone “I was happy with my horse, “He’s a big colt but he races in a regular bike and has a he carried his speed a long nice, straight gait,” said Croghan, “and he never hit any- way,” said Palone. “One thing I learned about him is that I thing before, but Dave looked at him and said, ‘Holy #&$@’ don’t think he’s a sprinter. His strong suit is that when you and went and got a bigger bike.” get him up to speed he can carry it quite a ways. Those kind Palone believes Southwind Ozzi, who overcame the out- of horses usually bode well here, when you can forwardly side post 9 in his elim to win in 1:49.3, is the one to beat in place them and hit the gas and stay on the gas.” the final. Croghan agrees. “I thought Southwind Ozzi was super impressive and I’d “He’s not a colt that has the :25.3 in him, but he has the :27 make him the favorite, but anything can happen in a horse and he can carry it a long way,” said Croghan. Continues on page 2 ›››› WHAT’S INSIDE . . . Seaside Bliss ready for Hambo Oaks—pg. 4 Donato Hanover moving to Sweden?—pg. 13 Owners take a shot with “Casha”—pg. 5 Guardian Angel As heads to Plainridge—pg. 14 Gingras eyes sixth straight Oaks—pg. 7 Gingras, Callahan banged up in Philly—pg. 15 Woodside Charm update—pg. 7 First Over with Kathy Parker—pg. 16 Evident Beauty heads to Oaks—pg. 8 Sugg, MacDonald in track accidents—pg. 17 Don’t Let’em races in Reynolds—pg. 11 Ones To Watch—pg. 18 Kiara Morgan off to hot start—pg. 11 Between Races with Dave Palone—pg. 19 HarnessRacing Weekend Preview, 2 of 22 July 26, 2019 www.harnessracing.com race,” said Palone. “It’s very hard to win here from the nine hole with two or three moves and get home in :27 when FREE THIS WEEKEND’S you’re three deep in the last turn. If he comes back with a Program number like that, we’re going to have to step up.” Pages FEATURED RACES Prince Of Tides is a son of Somebeachsomewhere out All times listed are local. of the 2008 Three-Year-Old Filly Pacer of the Year Tug Friday, July 26 River Princess. Owned by co-breeder Let It Ride Stables 7:40p M2 Doherty Mem. 2FT elim Trackmaster PPs in partnership with Dana Parham and Howard Taylor, 8:00p M3 Doherty Mem. 2FT elim Trackmaster PPs Prince Of Tides made just four starts last year at two, 8:20p M4 Haughton Mem. 2CT elim Trackmaster PPs posting a first, a second and a third. Prince Of Tides’ lone 9:28p M7 Doherty Mem. 2FT elim Trackmaster PPs freshman win came in a Pennsylvania Stallion event at 10:10p M9 Haughton Mem. 2CT elim Trackmaster PPs The Meadows. Click here to download all Friday PPs “He was a big, growthy colt and just wasn’t kicking into high gear,” Croghan explained about curtailing Prince Of Saturday, July 27 Tide’s rookie season after less than a handful of starts. 3:25p Mea13 Adioo Volo 3FP div. Trackmaster PPs Prince Of Tides came out of the box strong this year at 3:45p Mea14 Adioo Volo 3FP div. Trackmaster PPs three, finishing second and first in the Wiggleit Jiggleit 4:05p Mea15 Delvin Miller Adios 3CP Trackmaster PPs Series prelims at the Meadowlands before capturing the 8:15p M4 Golden Receiver OHP final Trackmaster PPs $58,500 final in 1:49.4. Prince Of Tides started his current win skein on May 27 at Harrah’s Philadelphia when he 8:35p M5 Hambletonian Oaks elim Trackmaster PPs cruised to a 6 ¼-length. 1:50 triumph in a PA Stallion 9:47p M8 Hambletonian Oaks elim Trackmaster PPs division. He posted an identical clocking the following 10:10p M9 Reynolds Mem. 3CT Trackmaster PPs week in Philly in an overnight, and then cruised to a Click here to download all Saturday PPs career-best 1:48.3 win in a conditioned pace at the Meadowlands on June 22. Visit www.trackmaster.com Croghan said the Adios is the lone major stakes on Prince and subscribe to download Of Tides’ calendar this year, so he’ll head back to the Penn- full cards from your favorite tracks! sylvania-sired circuit afterward. “Believe it or not, this is his only major race this year since he didn’t show that much at two,” said Croghan. “He has Post Position Wins at The Meadows some New Jersey homegrown stuff too.” A win by Prince Of Tides would end long Adios PP 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 droughts for both Palone and Croghan. Despite domi- starts 1,433 1,433 1,433 1,433 1,432 1,427 1,354 1,170 724 269 nating the drivers’ standings at The Meadows for win 165 177 186 248 258 154 124 70 42 13 place 188 182 182 182 209 186 160 79 43 19 decades, Palone’s lone win in the track’s signature event show 185 182 219 175 198 170 135 105 38 25 came in 1999 with Washington VC, who upset eventual Percent in Money Horse of the Year Blissfull Hall. Croghan’s drought goes win 11.5 12.4 13.0 17.3 18.0 10.8 9.2 6.0 5.8 4.8 one year longer as his lone victory came in 1998 with place 24.6 25.1 25.7 30.0 32.6 23.8 21.0 12.7 11.7 11.9 Artist Stena.—By Gordon Waterstone show 37.5 37.8 41.0 24.2 46.4 35.7 30.9 21.7 17.0 21.2

$400,000 Delvin Miller Adios Pace

The Meadows, Saturday, July 27, Race 15, Post Time: 4:05 pm Post—Horse (Sire) Driver/Trainer Odds Breeder/Yearling Price 1—Prince Of Tides (Somebeachsomewhere) D. Palone/R. Croghan 4-1 Let It Ride Stbs, Docs Fm, Robert Cooper Stbs/Homebred 2—Stag Party (Bettor’s Delight) D. Dunn/C. Coleman 6-1 F. Hertrich III/$125,000 3—Captain Victorious (Captaintreacherous) Y. Gingras/R. Burke 3-1 White Birch Farm/$40,000 4—Southwind Ozzi (Somebeachsomewhere) B. Sears/B. MacKenzie 2-1 Southwind Farms/$85,000 5—Wild Wild Western (Western Ideal) M. Wilder/N. Parker 20-1 F. Hertrich III/$55,000 6—Escapetothebeach (Somebeachsomewhere) T. Tetrick/T. Alagna 10-1 Bamond Racing/$175,000 7—Reigning Deo (Rock N Roll Heaven) A. McCarthy/B. Pelling 12-1 Deo Volente Farms/$45,000 8—Branquinho (Somebeachsomewhere) T. Buter/R. Schnittker 12-1 R. Schnittker, C. Iannazzo/Homebred 9—Quatrain Blue Chip (Somebeachsomewhere) D. Miller/C. Oakes 20-1 Blue Chip Bloodstock/$180,000 PENNSYLVANIA SCOREBOARD IMPORTANT PENNSYLVANIA-SIRED WINNERS FROM JULY 16-JULY 20, 2019 INCLUDE THESE HIGHLIGHTS DATE & TRACK EVENT WINNER OWNER/BREEDER SIRE-DAM July 16 $188,016 (div.) PASS Gangster Hanover Ake Svanstedt Inc., S R F Stable, FATHER PATRICK Brittany Farms/ The Meadows 2YOCT 2,1:55.3f ($31,336) Brittany Farms Global Desire July 16 $188,016 (div.) PASS King Alphonso Ake Svanstedt Inc., Bender Sweden, MUSCLE HILL Little E LLC, Douglas Sipple/ The Meadows 2YOCT 2,1:57.1f ($31,336) Order By Stable Amour Heiress July 16 $188,016 (div.) PASS Real Cool Sam Fashion Farms/ MUSCLE HILL The Meadows 2YOCT 2,1:55.2f ($52,836) Fashion Farms Cooler Schooner July 19 $189,705 (div.) PASS Sorella Elmer Fannin, Crawford Farms/ MUSCLE HILL Philadelphia 2YOFT 2,1:58f ($19,010) Elmer Fannin Kadealia July 19 $189,705 (div.) PASS Queen Of The Hill Al Libfeld/ EXPLOSIVE MATTER Paymaq Racing, Louis Willinger, Philadelphia 2YOFT 2,1:57.1f ($38,020) James Bafia Flyer Mel Burke Racing Stb., Weaver Bruscemi, J&T July 19 $189,705 (div.) PASS Crucial Silva-Purnel & Libby, WJ Donovan/ FATHER PATRICK S. Stewart, Maumee River Stb., Black Creek Fm., Philadelphia 2YOFT 2,1:56.2f ($19,010) M. Schmucker Jolene Jolene July 19 $189,705 (div.) PASS Sans Defaut Burke Racing Stb., Weaver Bruscemi, J&T MUSCLE HILL Silva-Purnel & Libby, Crawford Farms/ Philadelphia 2YOFT 2,1:55.2f ($38,572) Crawford Farms Flawless Lindy July 19 $189,705 (div.) PASS Sister Sledge Burke Racing Stb., Weaver Bruscemi, FATHER PATRICK J&T Silva-Purnel & Libby, J. Melillo/ Philadelphia 2YOFT 2,1:53.4f ($53,020) Sergent Stables, Andray Farm Behindclosedoors July 19 $150,000 Nadia Lobell Sylph Hanover Burke Racing Stb., William Switala, SOMEBEACHSOMEWHERE James Martin, Joseph Critelli/ Hoosier 3YOFP p,3,1:50.2 ($448,311) Hanover Shoe Farms She’s A Fan July 19 $10,000 Kindergarten Captain Kirk Brittany Farms, Marvin Katz, Brad CAPTAINTREACHEROUS Grant, Captain Kirk Racing/ The Meadowlands 2YOCP p,2,1:51.2 ($5,800) Brittany Farms Aria Hanover July 19 $10,000 Kindergarten Chief Mate Brittany Farms, Marvin Katz, Brad CAPTAINTREACHEROUS Grant, Captain Kirk Racing/ The Meadowlands 2YOCP p,2,1:51.1 ($10,000) Brittany Farms Heaven Forbid July 19 $10,000 Kindergarten Capricornus JJ Stable/ CANTAB HALL The Meadowlands 2YOCT 2,1:55.2 ($8,600) Windsong Stable Oh My Darlin July 19 $10,000 Kindergarten Stay Close Val D’Or Farms, Ted Gewertz, FATHER PATRICK Steven Arnold/ The Meadowlands 2YOCT 2,1:54.3 ($5,000) Richard & Joyce McClelland Tori Ann July 19 $10,000 Kindergarten Chestnut Hill Melvin Hartman, David McDuffee, MUSCLE HILL Little E LLC/ The Meadowlands 2YOCT 2,1:56 ($5,800) M. Hartman, H. Liverman, D. McDuffee Poof She’s Gone July 19 $10,000 Kindergarten JK First Lady 3 Brothers Stables/ WESTERN IDEAL The Meadowlands 2YOFP p,2,1:51.3 ($10,000) 3 Brothers Stables JK She’salady July 19 $10,000 Kindergarten Ramona Hill Brad Grant, Crawford Farms, Robert MUSCLE HILL Leblanc, In The Gym Partners/ The Meadowlands 2YOFT 2,1:54.1 ($10,000) Crawford Farms Lock Down Lindy July 20 $187,040 (div.) PASS Shouldabeenatd Burke Racing Stable, Weaver SWEET LOU Bruscemi/ The Meadows 2YOFP p,2,1:52.2f ($48,740) Burke Racing Stable, Weaver Bruscemi Breakheart Pass July 20 $187,040 (div.) PASS Lyons Sentinel Geoffrey Lyons Mound/ CAPTAINTREACHEROUS The Meadows 2YOFP p,2,1:53f ($41,990) Hanover Shoe Farms Tutu Hanover July 20 $187,040 (div.) PASS Sweet Ace Burke Racing Stb., L. Karr, J. Melillo SWEET LOU J&T Silva-Purnel & Libby/ The Meadows 2YOFP p,2,1:53.3f ($31,040) Crawford Farms One Ace Too Many July 20 $25,000 Adios Elim Captain Victorious The Captain V Stable/ CAPTAINTREACHEROUS The Meadows 3YOCP p,3,1:48.3f ($252,771) White Birch Farm Belclare July 20 $25,000 Adios Elim Prince Of Tides Let It Ride Stb., D. Parham, H. Taylor/ SOMEBEACHSOMEWHERE Let It Ride Stb., Docs Farm, Robert The Meadows 3YOCP p,3,1:48.3 ($115,170) Cooper Stables Tug River Princess July 20 $25,000 Adios Elim Southwind Ozzi Vincent Ali Jr., Alma Iafelice/ SOMEBEACHSOMEWHERE The Meadows 3YOCP p,3,1:48.4f ($126,249) Southwind Farms Southwind Solara July 20 $100,900 (div.) Green Manalishi S Courant Inc./ MUSCLE HILL The Meadowlands Tompkins-Geers 3YOCT 3,1:52.1f ($646,532) AB Svensk Reklamfinans Naga Morich S July 20 $100,900 (div.) Marseille Ake Svanstedt Inc., Order By Stable, MUSCLE HILL Howard Taylor/ The Meadowlands Tompkins-Geers 3YOCT 3,1:51.4 ($342,983) Order By Stable Order By Wish July 20 $93,600 (div.) Seaside Bliss S R F Stable/ CANTAB HALL The Meadowlands Tompkins-Geers 3YOFT 3,1:51.4 ($47,330) Valley High Stable You Want Me standardbredbreederspa.org HarnessRacing Weekend Preview, 4 of 22 July 26, 2019 www.harnessracing.com Improving Seaside Bliss Ready Michael Lisa/Lisa Photo For Hambletonian Oaks This year’s Hambletonian Oaks for 3-year-old filly trotters attracted a field of 19, which were divided into a pair of eliminations on Saturday night at the Meadowlands. The top five finishers in each elim will advance to the $500,000 final on Hambletonian day, Saturday, Aug. 3. The Oaks entrants are the cream of the crop of the division, dating back to the 2017 yearling sales. The four highest-priced filly trotters sold at auction that year have all been entered in the Oaks: Beautiful Sin ($480,000), The Ice Seaside Bliss Dutchess ($320,000), Seaside Bliss ($300,000) and Per- sonal Paradise ($265,000). Also entered were Cloud Nine “She’s always shown plenty of promise but we shut her Fashion ($225,000) and When Dovescry ($205,000), thus down last year because she just wasn’t ready,” said Kelley, who six of most expensive yearling trotting fillies in 2017 are trains Seaside Bliss for Lennart Agren’s SRF Stable. “This year I competing in the Oaks. tried to find the easiest spots I could for her. So I was thinking Trainer Paul Kelley says he always “The races were Chester (Harrah’s Philadelphia) or Pocono, but the problem was had faith in Seaside Bliss, even all tests and she that she just didn’t trot the turns on the five-eighths mile track after a five-start freshman season improved each as good as I liked. It didn’t matter who was driving her, they in 2018 that brought only two sec- time and that couldn’t drive her through the turns that well.” onds and two thirds. That faith is was obviously After finishing third in her season debut at Philadelphia, now being rewarded as the daugh- what we were Seaside Bliss won a maiden race in 1:57.1 at Pocono. After ter of Cantab Hall comes into her looking for.” finishing sixth in her next start at Pocono, Seaside Bliss Oaks elimination off a career-best –Paul Kelley headed to the Meadowlands where she finished a late-clos- 1:51.4 victory in a Tompkins-Geers ing third for driver Zeron. division on July 20 at the Meadowlands. Seaside Bliss starts “I took her to the Meadowlands and the first time Scott from post 3 in the first elim (Race 5) with Scott Zeron driving. drove her she finished third and trotted home in :26 and a Seaside Bliss’s latest mile is the second fastest trotted by a piece, and Scott came back and said her lines don’t look 3-year-old filly trotter this year, behind only Millies Posse- anything like that,” remembered Kelley. “He was a little sur- sion’s 1:51 victory in a Reynolds division on July 5 at the prised but happy. I told him she was just struggling on a Meadowlands, a race where Seaside Bliss finished 3 ½ five-eighths mile track and she’s more comfortable here so I lengths behind in fifth. wasn’t really that surprised. Continues on page 5 ››››

Hambletonian Oaks 3FT eliminations (first five finishers advance to final on Aug. 3; elimination winners draw for posts 1-5) Meadowlands, Saturday, July 27, 1st $50,000 elimination, Race 5, Post Time: 8:38 pm Post—Horse (Sire) Driver/Trainer Odds Breeder/Yearling Price 1—Evident Beauty (Trixton) D. Miller/R. Norman 3-1 White Birch Farm/$80,000 2—Starita (Trixton) B. Sears/J. Holloway 6-1 Brittany Farms/$50,000 3—Seaside Bliss (Cantab Hall) S. Zeron/P. Kelley 8-1 Valley High Stable/$300,000 4—Asiago (Muscle Hill) T. Tetrick/P. Engblom 10-1 James Wilhite/$200,000 5—Sonnet Grace (Muscle Massive) Y. Gingras/R. Burke 8-1 Rod Allen Inc./Private 6—Queen Of Trixs (Trixton) A. McCarthy/L. Wallin 15-1 Steve Stewart/$95,000 7—Grimmie Hanover (Cantab Hall) C. Callahan/J. Cullipher 15-1 Hanover Shoe Farms/$75,000 8—Millies Possesion (Possess The Will) D. Dunn/J. Campbell 5-2 Fashion Farms/Homebred 9—Golden Tricks (Trixton) A. Svanstedt 5-1 Little E LLC/$24,000 2nd $50,000 elimination, Race 8, Post Time: 9:47 pm Post—Horse (Sire) Driver/Trainer Odds Breeder/Yearling Price 1—Miss Trixton (Trixton) B. Sears/M. Melander 10-1 Hanover Shoe Farms/$105,000 2—Sweet Chapter (Chapter Seven) M. Kakaley/B. MacIntosh 15-1 Winbak Farm/$37,000 3—Beautiful Sin (Muscle Hill) D. Dunn/P. Engblom 4-1 Jeffrey Gural & Moon Goddess LLC/$480,000 4—Cloud Nine Fashion (Muscle Hill) T. Tetrick/J. Campbell 3-1 Hanover Shoe Farms/$225,000 5—When Dovescry (Muscle Hill) S. Allard/R. Allard 7-2 William Weaver III/$205,000 6—Southwind Casha (Cantab Hall) S. Zeron/J. Bax 12-1 Southwind Farms/$22,000 7—Personal Paradise (Muscle Hill) A. Svanstedt 8-1 Fair Winds Farm/$265,000 8—The Ice Dutchess (Muscle Hill) Y. Gingras/N. Johansson 6-1 Stephen P. Dey III & David P. Reid/$320,000 9—American Kronos (Donato Hanover) A. Miller/J. Miller 15-1 Allevamento Kronos/Private 10—Princess Deo (Trixton) A. McCarthy/L. Wallin 15-1 Deo Volente Farms/$47,000 HarnessRacing Weekend Preview, 5 of 22 July 26, 2019 www.harnessracing.com “I skipped a week and raced her back in the Reynolds and she finished fifth, beaten 3 ½ lengths, and Scott came back Canadian Owners Taking A Shot in and said she was just getting better and better.” Next up was the $47,050 Tompkins-Geers, but with Zeron With Modest-Priced Yearling in action that night at Saratoga, Kelley turned to driver Mar- While the top contenders in this year’s Hambletonian cus Miller. Oaks were given the highest marks by yearling buyers “Scott had to go to Saratoga and that morning at the baby at the 2017 sales, the two eliminations also includes a races (at the Meadowlands) he asked me who was driving few very reasonably-priced fillies. One of them is South- her,” said Kelley. “I said Marcus Miller. He said to just tell wind Casha, who starts from post 6 in Race 8, the elim Marcus to get her in play and have her somewhere close without Millies Possesion and Evident Beauty. when they turn for home and she has a hell of a shot to win.” Southwind Casha cost her owners, Jim Bullock’s Miller gave a textbook drive as he sat second until tipping Glengate Farms and Bax Stables, just $22,000. She’s out at the top of the stretch and going on to the 1:51.4 vic- also the only filly based in Canada to be entered in tory at odds of 7-1, which brought Seaside Bliss’s career this year’s Oaks. Although the daughter of Cantab earnings to $47,330. Hall has competed in Pennsylvania Sires Stakes, her “The races were all tests and she improved each time and other starts have been at Wood- that was obviously what we were looking for,” said Kelley. bine Mohawk Park, where she “She’s been Seaside Bliss is out of the Credit Winner mare You Want Me, took a lifetime mark of 1:53.4 on improving so trained by Kelley, who dominated the New York Sires Stakes June 28. we thought circuit at two in 2012, but never returned as a sophomore. In her last start before the Oaks we’d take a “About three weeks prior to You Want Me qualifying her 3- elimination, Southwind Casha chance.” year-old year, almost overnight something went wrong and started from post 10 and powered – John Bax about she couldn’t function at all,” remembered Kelley. “We tested to the lead in the opening quarter. Southwind Casha her for EPM and that was negative, and we did a Lyme test She held on to finish third. on her and she was off the charts positive for Lyme Disease. “She’s come a long ways,” said trainer John Bax of We did all we could as far as treating her but after five his filly, who did not race as a 2 year old. “Her legs weeks she still wasn’t that much better. My partner Bill aren’t all that straight, so that’s why we left her alone Weaver bought me out and bred her.” as a 2 year old. Then early this year she got a gravel in You Want Me’s first foal was You Know You Do, who won a foot and that took a long while to heal. the 2017 Peter Haughton Memorial. Seaside Bliss is You “She’s been improving so we thought we’d take a Want Me’s second foal. chance,” added Bax of Southwind Casha, whose sec- “You Want Me could trot around the turns on half-mile ond dam, Cruise Team, finished third in the 1997 Oaks. tracks in New York all day long and had no problems, and Also of note, Bax once trained another of this year’s then here is this filly, a Cantab (Hall) who was a really good- Oaks elimination starters, Grimmie Hanover. In early gaited filly, but for whatever reason Seaside Bliss is just not June she was sold to trainer Jeff Cullipher and owner handy on a smaller track,” noted Kelley. Tom Pollack. Kelley is optimistic Seaside Bliss will advance to the rich “Jim (Bullock) was the majority owner and he had final on Aug. 3. “The first hurdle comes Saturday, and you have to take it three Cantabs (including Southwind Casha), and he got one race at a time,” he said. “But she seems to be doing a good offer for Grimmie Hanover so that’s why she good. We’re hoping things go well on Saturday. We’re look- was sold,” Bax explained.—By Kathy Parker ing forward to it.”—By Gordon Waterstone Updated News Round-The-Clock harnessracing.com OOhiohio SirSiirresrees StakStakkeskees UpcominUpU cocomminmiinngg ScSchS Schedulechhheededudulel

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StallTZ.se/Adam Strom Photo on Monday (July 22) the filly had improved and from post 8 for Gingras in the jogged well. “Nancy (Johansson) Oaks elim. The Ice Dutchess “I just need a couple of races for her before Septem- really focused on has a pair of wins and a trio of ber,” said Yoder, who made Woodside Charm eligible to the first Saturday thirds in five starts this year, the Canadian Trotting Classic and Elegantimage, which in August from coming off a freshman cam- are both slated for Sept. 14 at Woodbine Mohawk. “I’m the beginning of paign that saw the daughter sure they’ll find me a race or two at Hoosier and hope- the year when of Muscle Hill post five wins fully she’ll keep getting better.” she asked me to and three seconds on her way drive her.” to $424,540 in earnings for –Yannick Gingras John Floren’s Coyote Wynd about The Ice Dutchess Farms, which purchased her 1:55 win at Harrah’s Philadelphia to show for six starts this as a yearling for $320,000. year. Sonnet Grace finished second last time out for driver The Ice Dutchess lowered her career mark to 1:52 in a con- David Miller in a Tompkins-Geers division at the Meadow- ditioned event on May 17 at the Meadowlands and since lands behind Seaside Bliss, who also drew into the same then added a 1:53.2 score in a Pennsylvania All-Stars divi- Oaks elim. sion at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono. Her three third- Although Gingras said Sonnet Grace has been improv- place finishes includes last time out in a Delvin Miller ing, he admits her work is cut out for her in a tough field Memorial division behind Millies Possesion. that also includes the undefeated Millies Possesion and “She’s coming into the race really good,” said Gingras. Evident Beauty, winners of the Delvin Miller Memorial di- “Maybe on paper her last few starts don’t look as good visions last weekend. Sonnet Grace will also be off Lasix as you’d like, but in that last start she got locked in the this week, per the race conditions precluding the use of two hole. I think if she gets loose at the top of the the anti-bleeding medication. stretch, I think she beats them. I wouldn’t trade my horse “She’s been getting a little better week in and week out,” for any of them. said Gingras. “She made a break two starts back (with Gin- “Nancy (Johansson) really focused on the first Saturday in gras driving) but it was more of her being herself. She’s a August from the beginning of the year when she asked me hard horse to handle; she’s really not a kid’s horse. to drive her. She told me she wanted to race her from be- “She had been a puppy in the post parade her last three or hind and keep her sharp and the main goal was this. We four starts but trot-wise she might not have had as much raced her with that in mind and I think she is coming into speed as she had early on in the season. But with David the race in great shape.” (Miller) driving last week I heard she was pretty grabby in Starting from post 5 in her Oaks elim, Sonnet Grace, the the post parade last week and she had a better race.”—By 2018 Pennsylvania Sires Stakes champion, has only a lone Gordon Waterstone HarnessRacing Weekend Preview, 8 of 22 July 26, 2019 www.harnessracing.com Evident Beauty Heads To Oaks Off Miller Victory Before trainer Jimmy Takter went on his record run of five consecutive Hambletonian Oaks wins, Richard “Nifty” Nor- man posted back-to-back victories in the sport’s premier race for 3-year-old filly trotters. Norman could become only the fourth trainer in history to collect three trophies if all goes well for Evident Beauty the next two weekends. “This is the race you circle on the calendar,” Norman said. “These next two weeks are the weeks you want to race your horses at the Meadowlands; it’s something to look forward to. “We’re here, we’ll just let the chips fall where they may.” Evident Beauty was among 19 horses entered in the Hamble- tonian Oaks eliminations Saturay at the Meadowlands, the top- five finishers in each returning for the $500,000 final on Aug. 3. The first Oaks elimination features four of the five fastest 3-year- old filly trotters of the season: Millies Possesion (1:51.1), Seaside Bliss (1:51.4), Golden Tricks (1:52.2) and Evident Beauty (1:52.3). Evident Beauty has won four of five races this year and seven of 14 lifetime, missing the board only twice in her career. Her victories this season include the New Jersey Sires Stakes final and a division of the Delvin Miller Memorial, which came in her most recent start on July 13, also at the Meadowlands. “Everything has gone to plan so far,” said Norman, who trains the filly for owners Mel Hartman, Jeff Gural’s Little E LLC, and Wayne Giles’ R A W Equine Inc. “Hopefully we get to race two weeks in a row here. She seems good, she’s been good all year, so we’ll hope she’s still good.” Evident Beauty showed a new aspect to her game in the Miller, leading for much of the way in her neck triumph over Cloud Nine Fashion. It was only the second time in her career that she led a race prior to the stretch. “Obviously, that’s not her forte; she’s better from off a hel- met,” Norman said. “That’s her go really. She loves to chase a horse down. But then the fact she was able to leave the race before, she showed she could race either way, so I HarnessRacing Weekend Preview think that’s a big help. 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1 GREENSHOE Brian Sears, Marcus Melander, Two-time NJSS champion goes into the Hambo off an easy 1:50.1 Courant Inc, Hans Backe, Lars career best in the Dancer, just a fifth off the stakes mark, Brian Grandqvist, Morten Langli Sears looks for his 4th Hambo, and could become the 6th driver to complete the Meadowlands Pace-Hambo double

2 GIMPANZEE Brian Sears, Marcus Melander, Made it 12-for-12 & three-for-three this season by winning a NYSS Courant Inc, S R F Stable division @ Tioga Downs on July 19 & took a new mark of 1:52.4 after a 24-day layoff, dominated the EBC @ Vernon Downs in 1:54

3 MARSEILLE Ake Svanstedt, Ake Svanstedt Inc, Outsprinted stablemate Soul Strong in :26.3 & took a new mark of Order By Stable, Howard Taylor 1:51.1 in the Tompkins Geers on July 20 after missing three weeks, stole the Earl Beal, Jr. Memorial wire-to-wire in 1:52.3 at 55-1, Team Svanstedt is peaking a Hambo triple threat

4 GREEN MANALISHI S Tim Tetrick, Marcus Melander, Tuned up for the Hambo with an easy 1:52.4 score in the Tompkins Courant Inc Geers @ The Big M on July 20, came off second [1:51.4] to Swandre The Giant in the Dancer, Melander said, “He’s a big horse, he needed one more race and this was the perfect race to be in.”

5 PILOT DISCRETION Andrew McCarthy, Tony Alagna, In his final Hambo prep he kicked home in :26.3 to finish third Robert LeBlanc, David Anderson, [1:52] to Marseille in the Tompkins Geers on July 20, a solid second John Fodera [1:51] to Greenshoe in his Dancer division, was coming off a career best 1:51.4 Big M qualifier, won the Goodtimes Final in 1:52.4

6 FORBIDDEN TRADE Bob McClure, Luc Blais, O’Brien Award winner 6 – 4-2-0 in Ontario this season, beat older Determination foes in an overnight @ Mohawk in 1:55 on July 22, won his Good- times elimination in 1:53.1, a close second [1:52.4] in that final

7 SWANDRE THE Dave Miller, Ron Burke, Diamond Indiana standout upset Green Manalishi S in his Big M debut with GIANT Creek Racing, J & T Silva Stables, a career best of 1:51.3 in his Dancer division with Lasix added, Howard Taylor Lasix not allowed in the Hambo, did not race last week, post 11 in Reynolds Memorial on July 27 @ Big M

8 SOUL STRONG Dexter Dunn, Ake Svanstedt, Father Patrick gelding finished a gutsy first over second [1:51.4] to Stable Why Not stablemate Marseille in the Tompkins Geers after holding off stablemate Sheena’s Boy in :26.3 on June 28, the Dexter Dunn juggernaut soars into his first Hambo

9 DON’T LET’EM Yannick Gingras, Nancy Johansson, Broke late & finished seventh in his Dancer division, second in :26 Brittany Farms, Christina Takter, John to Pilot Discretion in a Big M qualifier on July 5 after dominating a Fielding, Herb Liverman Big M overnight in 1:51.3, did not race last week, post 10 in Reynolds Memorial on July 27 @ Big M

10 SHEENA’S BOY Ake Svanstedt, Knutsson Trotting Inc, Finished a solid second [1:53] to Green Manalishi S in the S R F Stable Tompkins Geers after taking a new mark of 1:53 @ Pocono, runner up to Greenshoe in a NJSS division, 7 – 3-3-0 this season, post 5 in Reynolds Memorial on July 27 @ Big M HarnessRacing Weekend Preview, 11 of 22 July 26, 2019 www.harnessracing.com Post 10 A Tough Task In Reynolds For Don’t Let’em Kiara Morgan Off To Hot Start A bulky 12-horse field will contest the $81,200 Reynolds In just her third career pari-mutuel start, Kiara Mor- Memorial for 3-year-old male trotters on Saturday night at gan, the 20-year-old daughter of veteran Ohio-based the Meadowlands. Starting from the outside post 10 in the trainer Virgil Morgan Jr., scored a 19 ½-length victory final prep before the two-heat Hambletonian on Aug. 3 is in 2:01 with Action Metro Max (pictured) at the Wash- Don’t Let’em, who will be driven by Yannick Gingras. ington County Fair in Ohio on July 17. Kiara added a Last year’s winner of the $422,350 Peter Haughton Memo- second nine-length win that day with Tail Gunner Hall rial in a track-record 1:51.4, Don’t Let’em’s career has been in 2:03. With a 2:01.2 win with Action B in a Lady Series plagued by gait issues. Don’t Let’em showed a tendency to Pace on July 21 at Marysville, and a 2:00.3 win again switch to the pace late last year, and while he had been on with Tail Gunner Hall on July 23 at the Shelby County his best behavior in his first two starts of 2019 at the Mead- Fair in Sidney, Kiara’s seven-start resume shows four owlands (a 1:51.3 win and a wins and two seconds. “I think he has the second, race-timed in closest gears to 1:51.4), he changed gaits Greenshoe, it’s just a last time out in a Stanley matter of getting Dancer Memorial division things all ironed out while sitting close heading before next week.” into the stretch. –Yannick Gingras “He made a break while he was switching to the pace,” said Gingras. “He wasn’t tired but I don’t think I was beating Greenshoe, but in my opinion I think he was going to be second ahead of Pilot Discretion. I think he has the closest gears to Greenshoe, it’s just a matter of getting Action Metro Max things all ironed out before next week.” Brad Conrad Photo Don’t Let’em is trained by Nancy Johansson, the daughter week before the Hambo, but you definitely want to make of the retired Jimmy Takter, whose wife Christina shares sure you get in a good experience before that.” ownership of the son of Muscle Hill. Eleven of the 12 starters are eligible to the Hambletonian, “They’ve made a lot of changes on him and they trained including the 1:51.3 Stanley Dancer Memorial division win- him last week and I saw the video and he looked tremen- ner Swandre The Giant, who starts from the trailing 11 post. dous,” said Gingras. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen him look as To his right in post 12 is Super Schissel, who was third in good. Post 10 in a 12-horse field is definitely not ideal the Don’t Let’em’s Dancer division.—By Gordon Waterstone

Peter Haughton Memorial 2CT elims (first five finishers advance to the final on Aug. 3) Meadowlands, Friday, July 26, 1st $20,000 elimination, Race 4, Post Time: 8:20 pm Post—Horse (Sire) Driver/Trainer Odds Breeder/Yearling Price 1—Ontopofthehill (Muscle Hill) D. Dunn/R. Burke 8-1 Brittany Farms/$250,000 2—Expectations (Muscle Hill) B. Sears/M. Melander 5-1 Dunroven Stud/$60,000 3—Stay Close (Father Patrick) D. Miller/J. Holloway 3-1 R. & J. McClelland/$100,000 4—Synergy (Father Patrick) Y. Gingras/P. Engblom 5-2 Southwind Farms/$275,000 5—Captricornus (Cantab Hall) T. Tetrick/M. Melander 4-1 Windsong Stable/$110,000 6—Sixteen (Donato Hanover) S. Zeron/A. Harris 15-1 Winbak Farm/$160,000 7—Patriarch Hanover (Father Patrick) M. Kakaley/R. Burke 8-1 Brittany Farm/M. Hartman/$22,000 8—Savini (Explosive Matter) A. Miller/D. Marshall 10-1 KR Breeding/$15,000 2nd $20,000 elimination, Race 9, Post Time: 10:10 pm Post—Horse (Sire) Driver/Trainer Odds Breeder/Yearling Price 1—Take Shape (Donato Hanover) K. Rickert 15-1 Fair Winds Farm/$6,000 2—Legion Of Honor (Muscle Hill) A. McCarthy/L. Wallin 8-1 S. Stewart, J. Carver/$150,000 3—Dublin (Father Patrick) M. Kakaley/R. Burke 8-1 Shanamphilankilou Inc./$100,000 4—Mister Walker (Muscle Hill) C. Callahan/J. Czernyson 6-1 Consus Racing Stable/Homebred 5—Hellbent For AM S (Muscle Hill) B. Sears/M. Melander 3-1 AM Bloodstock/Homebred 6—Back Of The Neck (Ready Cash) Mat. Melander/M. Melander 4-1 Order By Stable/$150,000 7—S Class (Muscle Hill) Y. Gingras/R. Burke 5-1 W. Mulligan/— 8—Rome Pays Off (Muscle Hill) T. Tetrick/M. Melander 12-1 Order By Stable/$155,000 9—Real Cool Sam (Muscle Hill) D. Miller/J. Campbell 2-1 Fashion Farms/Homebred 94

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Michael Lisa/Lisa Photos HarnessRacing Weekend Preview, 13 of 22 July 26, 2019 www.harnessracing.com Swedes Hoping To Move Donato Hanover To Sweden Sweden’s Sulky Sport magazine has reported that Hans Nelén of Global Farms is finalizing acquiring enough shares in Donato Hanover to own a controlling interest in the horse and move him to Sweden. “There are only a few veterinary papers that are missing before he can start the journey home to Sweden,” Nelén. “The idea is to freeze him (his semen) at Broline this year,” Nelén told Sulky Sport’s Claes Freidenvall. Mats “Oxalis” Gabrielsson and Broline International are other Swedes with ownership stakes in Donato Hanover. “We own a little over 70 out of 120 coverage rights; we bought out Hanover Shoe Farm’s breeding rights and the stud farm steps out as manager of the syndicate,” added Donato Hanover Nelén. “Donato Hanover will be set up as a breeding stallion in Sweden next season.” A 15-year-old son of Andover Hall, Donato Hanover has Nelén said Donato Hanover was bred to approximately 50 become known as a filly sire thanks to the accomplishments mares in Europe this year. The horse’s stud fee in the U.S. of his daughters Shake It Cerry, Check Me Out and Broad- was $7,500 this year. way Donna, all million-dollar winners and Dan Patch hon- The winner of the 2007 Hambletonian, Donato Hanover orees during their racing careers. Among his colt has stood at stud at Hanover Shoe Farms in Pennsylvania performers is Possess The Will, sire of the undefeated Mil- since his retirement from racing. Hanover had no comment lie’s Possesion, who will be competing in the Hambletonian on the transaction reported by Sulky Sport. Oaks eliminations Saturday.

James Doherty Memorial 2FT elims (first three finishers plus one fourth-place finisher drawn by lot advance to final on Aug. 3) Meadowlands, Friday, July 26, 1st $20,000 elimination, Race 2, Post Time: 7:40 pm Post—Horse (Sire) Driver/Trainer Odds Breeder/Yearling Price 1—Dune Hill (Muscle Hill) A. McCarthy/R. Burke 8-1 J. DiScala Jr./Homebred 2—Spoiled Princess (Trixton) S. Zeron/N. Norman 5-1 R. McNerney, Hauser Bros. Racing Ent./Homebred 3—Ms Savannah Belle (Muscle Hill) T. Tetrick/P. Engblom 4-1 A. Libfeld/Homebred 4—Dip Me Hanover (Donato Hanover) D. Dunn/L. Toscano 12-1 Hanover Shoe Farms/$52,000 5—Hello Tomorrow (Muscle Hill) Y. Gingras/P. Engblom 3-1 Fair Winds Farm/$380,000 6—Impressive Fashion (Father Patrick) D. Miller/J. Campbell 6-1 S. Stewart, Black Creek Farm, Kemppi Stable/$160,000 7—Aperfectcrystal (Muscle Hill) M. Kakaley/R. Burke 15-1 R. Detweiler/$200,000 8—Hypnotic AM (Chapter Seven) B. Sears/M. Melander 5-2 Courant Ab/Homebred 2nd $20,000 elimination, Race 3, Post Time: 8:00 pm Post—Horse (Sire) Driver/Trainer Odds Breeder/Yearling Price 1—Solsbury Hill (Muscle Hill) S. Zeron/A. Harris 5-1 Hanover Shoe Farms/$120,000 2—Tricky Sister (Trixton) B. Sears/C. Norris 15-1 R. Key/Homebred 3—Jula Champagne (Trixton) Y. Gingras/P. Engblom 5-2 Windsong Stable/$85,000 4—Word Of Honor (Father Patrick) A. Miller/J. Miller 3-1 Brittany Farms, M. Katz, A. Libfeld/Homebred 5—Sans Defaut (Muscle Hill) M. Kakaley/R. Burke 4-1 Crawford Farms/Homebred 6—Dramatra (Trixton) A. McCarthy/G. Ducharme 8-1 A. Ross/Homebred 7—Violet Stride (Trixton) T. Tetrick/M. Harder 10-1 Kentuckiana Farms, J. Jahre Jr./$280,000 8—Panem (Father Patrick) D. Dunn/N. Johansson 10-1 Diamond Creek Farm/Homebred 3rd $20,000 elimination, Race 7, Post Time: 9:28 pm Post—Horse (Sire) Driver/Trainer Odds Breeder/Yearling Price 1—Queen Of The Hill (Explosive Matter) S. Zeron/P. Engblom 5-2 Paymaq Racing, A. Willinger, C. Bafia/$110,000 2—Sherry Lyns Lady (Father Patrick) T. Tetrick/J. Campbell 9-2 S. Stewart, Timot Stable/$220,000 3—She Must Be Magic (Kadabra) M. Kakaley/C. Norris 15-1 R. Key/Homebred 4—Billie Claire (Cantab Hall) C. Callahan/J. Czernyson 12-1 Consus Racing Stable, Millstream Inc./Homebred 5—Julia C (My MVP) D. Dunn/P. Engblom 8-1 Fair Island Farm/Homebred 6—Knockdown Dragout (Sebastian K) A. MacDonald/A. Harris 6-1 K. Rae/— 7—Crucial (Father Patrick) Y. Gingras/R. Burke 2-1 S. Stewart, Maumee River Stbs, Black Creek Fm, M. Schmucker/$200,000 8—Bayou (Father Patrick) D. Miller/L. Toscano 10-1 Diamond Creek Farm/Homebred HarnessRacing Weekend Preview, 14 of 22 July 26, 2019 www.harnessracing.com Guardian Angel As Heads $100,000 CLARA BARTON OMP To Spirit of Massachusetts Plainridge Park, Sunday, July 28, Race 7, Post Time: 4:20 pm Guardian Angel As has been on a roll of late and will come Post—Horse Driver into the $250,000 Spirit of Massachusetts Trot at Plainridge 1—Kimberlee A. Miller/A. Svanstedt Park razor sharp. He has won four straight stakes events 2—Apple Bottom Jeans C. Callahan/D. Davis against some of the best older trotters in North America be- 3—Shartin N T. Tetrick/J. King Jr. fore finishing fourth in a trip that saw him parked out the 4—Dont Think Twice A B. Sears/A. Harris 5—Bettor Joy N D. Dunn/J. King Jr. entire mile from post 9 at the Meadowlands. 6—Baron Remy M. Kakaley/R. Burke In the $30,000 Great Northeast at the Downs at Mohegan 7—Kaitlyn N D. Miller/R. Banca Sun Pocono, Guardian Angel As dropped in second from post 8—Reclamation Y. Gingras/R. Burke 5 and then took the lead by the half. From there he trotted away to a four-length win in 1:53.1 over a sloppy track. Two weeks later it was the $100,000 Maxie Lee at Harrah’s $250,000 SPIRIT OF MASSACHUSETTS OHT Philadelphia where he once again led most of the way and Plainridge Park, Sunday, July 28, Race 9, Post Time: 5:00 pm drew off to an easy seasonal-best 1:51 victory, defeating Post—Horse Driver Pinkman and Fiftydallarbill in the process. 1—Weslynn Dancer D. Miller/R. Banca Then in a $40,000 leg of the Mr. Muscleman at the Mead- 2—La Grange A A. Miller/A. Svanstedt owlands, he was cruising on the lead before digging in to 3—Trolley M. Miller/E. Miller hold off a very gritty stretch drive 4—Mambo Lindy D. Monti/D. Cecere “He’ll do what by Cruzado Dela Noche, eventu- 5—The Veteran Y. Gingras/P. Kelley you want but ally hanging on to win by a half- 6—Guardian Angel As T. Tetrick/A. Lorentzon he doesn’t length in 1:52.1, with a swift :26.3 7—Fiftydallarbill C. Callahan/K. Adams really have final quarter. much patience.” His next start would make history. speed and he showed it in the 2018 Allerage Trot at Lexing- –Anette Lorentzon On June 29 at Northfield Park in ton. Guardian Angel As finished second to Homicide Hunter the $175,000 Cleveland Classic, in 1:48.4, which was the fastest trotting mile in the history of Guardian Angel As turned a trip that left him parked out for the sport. Guardian Angel As came first-over at the half and seven-eighths of the mile into a wrapped-up win, stopping had taken the lead in the stretch before Homicide Hunter the timer in 1:52 and setting a new world record for older blistered home in :26 flat outside of him. Although he fin- trotting horses on a half-mile track. That rewrote Crazy ished second, Guardian Angel As still trotted in an unbeliev- Wow’s 1:52.3 standard set in 2017. able 1:49.2. Anette Lorentzon trains Guardian Angel As and after four The other asset that makes this 5-year-old son of years of racing him is well aware of his speed and versatility. Archangel special is his ability to strike from anywhere in “We always knew he was a really good horse but what the mile. surprised us most at Northfield is the way he did it. He “He’s the kind of horse that can race from any position. He never pulled the plugs after being parked three-quarters of likes to be up close but he’s good if you also sit behind a mile. I wasn’t really sure how he would be there because horses. He’ll do what you want but he doesn’t really have he has such a big gait. But I also knew it’s a very good half- much patience. He is a stud and he knows it and he wants it mile track at Northfield and he got around it fine,” said his way,” Lorentzon explained. Lorentzon. Tim Tetrick, who will be in town to drive Shartin N in the The 1:52 clocking on the half was amazing let alone the Clara Barton Pace, will be at the lines behind Guardian trip he went to get it, but this horse has always had a lot of Angel As. (Tim Bojarski) Advertise in these 3 integrated products...

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For details or to reserve space call Lynne Myers at (859) 276-4026 or email [email protected] HarnessRacing Weekend Preview, 15 of 22 July 26, 2019 www.harnessracing.com Gingras, Callahan Not Hurt lieving something had happened inside, Gingras went the In Philly Race Accident opposite direction and directly into Callahan. “I thought I was going to right and go around (Callahan), but I Yannick Gingras and Corey Callahan, two of harness just went right into him,” said Gingras. “Corey’s horse was on racing’s leading drivers, both told harnessracing.com the ground before I hit him. I never saw Corey until I hit him be- Thursday morning that while banged up a bit they were cause I was paying attention to Marcus. Then I got thrown out. not seriously injured in a race accident at Harrah’s “I’m fine, but just want to be careful. I’m going to take the Philadelphia on Wednesday. day off and since I don’t have to race tomorrow afternoon, I Gingras said he went to a hospital afterward for x-rays don’t have to go back until tomorrow night.” of his back, which were negative. Still sore, Gingras said Callahan said he contemplated going to the hospital but he would take off his drives on Thursday afternoon at decided against making the trip. Harrah’s Philadelphia, giving him more than one full day “I’m OK. A little sore but nothing broken,” said Callahan. to recover until returning to action Friday night at the “It’s my leg that’s hurting but I think I can sit in the bike fine.” Meadowlands. Callahan also took off his Thursday Callahan said that after Start A Ruckus fell he was relieved mounts at Harrah’s Philadelphia but was still hopeful he he emerged at the time unscathed. could drive on the nighttime Governor’s Day card at “I landed on my feet and thought I was good, and thought, Harrington Raceway. ‘Oh my God, thank goodness,’ and I turned around to see if The incident occurred in Race 12 at Harrah’s Philadelphia. anything was coming,” said Callahan. “I saw Yannick at the Gingras was driving Boogy Woogy J when the horse made last minute; I saw his face and then it was boom! Yannick an early break and fell back to last. Callahan, who was driv- didn’t know my horse went down and Marcus was yelling ing Start A Ruckus, had gotten good early position but when and went left, and Yannick veered right, right into me. he tipped his charge to the outside heading to the quarter, “It’s a good thing I grew up playing hockey because I can the pacer suddenly fell down. sure take a hit,” he added with a laugh. “Holy cow! It was Callahan was catapulted from the sulky but landed on his like getting hit by (NHL player Alex) Ovechkin.” feet. Meanwhile, Boogy Woogy J had regained his gait but Gingras and Callahan both said their respective horses was still trailing when Gingras said he heard driver Marcus were OK afterward and suffered no major injuries.—By Miller yelling. Seeing Miller go left with his horse and be- Gordon Waterstone HarnessRacing Weekend Preview, 16 of 22 July 26, 2019 www.harnessracing.com overkill, but I disagree. It doesn’t matter that we remember hotter than hell days in Springfield, or a Hambletonian day at the Meadowlands when it seemed the surrounding pave- ment was literally seizing heat from the sky and radiating it back up to envelop us. It’s 2019, and we’re in new times of knowledge and sensitivity. Can extreme heat be dangerous to humans and animals? Absolutely! There is no debate about that. Can humans and animals compete safely in athletic competitions in extreme heat? That probably depends on the exact definition of ex- Changing Times: New treme heat, but we must always put the welfare and safety of the horse first. Perspectives On Heat Racetrack managers were scrambling last weekend to deal It was 34 years ago that Nihilator, fresh off a stupendous, with the extreme heat and make decisions about whether to 1:50.3 world record victory by 7 ¼ lengths on Hambletonian race, change post times, or cancel cards. Monmouth Park in Day at the Meadowlands, went on to The Meadows race- New Jersey, which was scheduled to present the $1 million track to compete in the Adios. The Adios was not originally Haskell Memorial, was caught in a no-win situation as the on the schedule for Nihilator, but Meadows founder Delvin heat index was forecast to be over 100 degrees. The Haskell Miller was very good friends with Ni- program is the biggest day of Mon- hilator’s trainer Billy Haughton, and The Wet Bulb Globe Temperature, mouth’s meet and thus is a money- when Delvin asked for the colt to developed by the US military, maker for the track. Add in the come to the race, Haughton obliged. uses temperature, humidity, wind appearance this year of the DQ’d Nihilator was scheduled to skip the speed, sun angle and cloud cover Kentucky Derby winner Maximum Adios. That’s because the goal for Ni- (solar radiation). This differs from Security, and it was poised to be a hilator was a mid-August trip to the the heat index, which takes into huge day for the track. Illinois State Fair to lower the sport’s consideration temperature and But when every single track located speed record. The loamy soil of the humidity and is calculated for along the Eastern Seaboard except one-mile oval was well known for shady areas. for Monmouth cancelled last Satur- seeming to catapult horses to lower –National Weather Service day, the heat was really cranked up lifetime marks. on track management. According to The Adios turned out to be the beginning of a month of reports, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy even called about disappointments for the Nihilator team. The Adios was Monmouth’s situation. That prompted the following jab by raced in heats back then, with the winner required to cap- reporter Bob Ford in the Philadelphia Inquirer: “Murphy re- ture a second heat. Nihilator was beaten in the first elim, cently pushed through legislation that will provide as much came back and won a second but was then scratched from as $100 million in bigger purses over the next five years in the race-off (won by Marauder). Nihilator went on to New Jersey.… The sight of a horse buckling on national tel- Springfield where rainy weather ruined any chance for an evision due to being run in excessive conditions would assault on the clock. make repeal of that legislation more than likely.” Besides time-tripping back 34 years, a look back to 1985 is Yes, Thoroughbred racing is under much greater scrutiny a reminder that back then any goals to rewrite the sport’s than Standardbred racing because of the high number of speed records often included giving it a go at Springfield. In horses euthanized at this winter’s Santa Anita meet due to addition to the fast racing surface, horsemen believed the catastrophic breakdowns. The Santa Anita situation contin- heat and humidity and general atmospheric conditions ues to propel animal rights activists to criticize horse racing. often prevailing in the heartland in August created perfect On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Board of Animal Services fell conditions for world records. just one vote short of sending a non-binding recommenda- Harness racing was in a different place back then, and so tion to the city council opposing horse racing in California. was the world. Today our horses race fast miles all the time So we’re horse racing, and we shouldn’t think we’re safe and the chase for speed records is rare. Racing at Spring- from scrutiny. field is almost exclusively for Illinois breds. And in another Last weekend’s heat wave revealed that some racing regu- sign of the times, horsemen no longer see the benefits of lators have a heat advisory and specify a “heat index” num- racing their horses in extreme heat conditions. ber to use when considering cancelling programs. But is Last weekend’s heat wave prompted cancellations of rac- this enough? ing programs, delays to later evening post times, shorter The New York State Gaming Board’s “Heat Management post parades, and extra fans and water hoses in paddocks Protocol” states, “If the National Oceanic and Atmospheric and barns. These measures may be seen by some as Continues on page 17 ›››› HarnessRacing Weekend Preview, 17 of 22 July 26, 2019 www.harnessracing.com

Tips For Cooling Horses In Hot Weather Sugg, MacDonald Hurt Dealing with extremely hot weather presents challenges In Track Accidents for both horsemen and racetrack managers, and each can do their part to keep horses healthy. Two drivers are on the mend after being injured on The following recommendations by Professor Michael the track over the past week. Lindinger were posted on the University of Guelph (On- Last Saturday night (July 20), while scoring down the tario) website. Lindinger, an animal and exercise physiol- colt Splash Brother prior to a New York Sires Stakes at ogist with the University of Guelph in Ontario, began Saratoga, Mark MacDonald was unseated and frac- studying the effects of heat on horses when he was a lead tured a shoulder joint and sustained a hematoma on researcher on the Canadian research team that contributed his right hip, plus whiplash. information on the response of the horse to heat and hu- On Monday night (July 22), John “Duke” Sugg was midity for the Atlanta Summer Olympics. hurt while driving in a race at the Tiffin, Ohio, fair. Sugg, “You can cool the horse two degrees in 10 minutes this 48, was life-flighted to Toledo Hospital, where he re- way: pour on the water, scrape it off, pour on more, and mains on sedation. Sugg suffered small contusions just keep repeating it,” says Lindinger, who adds you and bleeding on his brain as well as a fractured wrist. should NEVER put a blanket or coolor on a horse in hot On Wednesday, Sugg’s mother, Patty, posted on Face- weather. “The scraping part is important because other- book the following update: wise the water will be trapped in the horse’s hair and will “He is still on heavy sedation and ventilated. They do quickly warm up. By scraping and pouring on fresh, cold this to keep him as relaxed and still as possible. They take him off the sedation a couple times per day to see water you keep the cooling process going.” what his response will be. He must have been very He also recommends that salts be replaced because the salts tired on Tuesday because he just did not want to wake in horse sweat are four times as concentrated as in human up! However, this morning when they turned sedation sweat. Water is not enough; electrolytes are required. down, he was moving around a lot! He was even trying Other recommendations include “wet and walk” between to sit up! I was so happy to see him moving! hosing. As water evaporates from the skin it removes body “He is going to have an external fixator placed on his heat, causing the horse to cool. By walking in shady, wrist. This is to keep his fractured bones in place before breezy areas and increasing air flow over the horse’s skin, they do the final surgery with pins and screws.” evaporation rates are improved. Also, despite old-school ideas, horses should be allowed to drink as much fresh, clean water as they require after racing.

Administration heat index reaches 105…your racetrack vet- adopted a very detailed, six-page “Heat Policy” which uses erinarian should contact the stewards or judges and track the Wet Bulb Globe Temperature, a calculation developed management to advise them of the presence of dangerous and used by the US military. weather conditions. The track veterinarian, stewards or The commonly used “heat index” (as noted in the New York judges, horseman’s organizations and racetrack manage- policy above) temperature, which has been used as the stan- ment should seek to cancel racing if local conditions are dard in the US, only takes into consideration the air tempera- considered dangerous for horses and riders/drivers. Ideally, ture and humidity. The Wet Bulb Globe Temperature also uses this decision should be made before the first race, when- cloud cover, wind speed, and even the angle of the sun to cal- ever possible.” culate a temperature. In one example, a heat index tempera- In Ontario, if temperatures reach a certain range, the regu- ture of 108 could result in a Wet Bulb Globe Temperature of 89 lations call for a registered veterinarian technician “to moni- if there was a sufficient amount of cloud cover and wind. tor temperature, pulse and respiration rate of equine It is obvious that the horse racing industry needs to im- athletes pre-race and post-race.” prove its regulations that address protecting the welfare of I’ve since learned that Harness Racing New South Wales, the horse in extreme heat conditions. Just because we raced the regulatory group for harness racing in the Australian horses in extreme conditions in the past does not mean it is state of New South Wales, which includes Sydney, recently a wise, or acceptable, practice today.—By Kathy Parker HarnessRacing Weekend Preview, 18 of 22 July 26, 2019 www.harnessracing.com

Friday night the big weekend of racing at The Meadows competing for six-figure Ontario Sires Stakes Gold purses gets underway at 5:30 p.m. with the Arden Downs stakes for (Races 2 and 8). 2-year-old colt and gelding trotters (Races 1, 2, 3) and 2- A $22,500 overnight at the Meadowlands on Saturday year-old filly trotters (Races 7, 8, 9). The Race 7 field includes night (Race 10) includes a trio of millionaire trotters: HOMI- the three-for-three, 1:53.4-record filly SISTER SLEDGE, CIDE HUNTER, MARION MARAUDER and who races for trainer Ron Burke. MANCHEGO. At Scioto Downs, where first post is 6:30 p.m., Race 2 is an With the Sam McKee Memorial looming on Aug. 3 at the Ohio Sires Stakes for 3-year-old pacing fillies, with QUEEN Meadowlands, a pair of probables are scheduled to meet in OF THE PRIDE set to compete. She finished third in last the first of seven qualifiers Saturday morning at the Big M. Friday’s $150,000 Nadia Lobell Pace at Harrah’s Hoosier LATHER UP, fresh off his win in the William Haughton Me- Park. A second division for 3-year-old filly pacers is set as morial and two starts removed from his world-record 1:46 Race 4, while 3-year-old trotting fillies compete in Ohio victory in the Graduate final, starts from post 1 with Mon- Sires Stakes in Races 6 and 8. The Race 8 division includes trell Teague driving. The 2018 Meadowlands Pace and Little the five-for-seven WICKED SUGAR and the defending divi- Brown Jug champ COURTLY CHOICE will line up in post 5 sional champ ONLY TAKE CASH. with driver David Miller. Saturday’s stakes action gets underway early with first post at The Meadows 11:25 a.m. and the first three races are Arden Downs for 3-year-old filly trotters and 2-year- old filly pacers. The Arden Downs for 2-year-old colt pacers are Races 6, 7, 8, 9 and 12. Two divisions of the Adioo Volo for 3-year-old filly pacers are also on the 16-race card. The Race 13 division includes TREACHEROUS REIGN (winner of the Fan Hanover), STONEBRIDGE SOUL (winner of the Mistletoe Shalee) and SYLPH HANOVER (winner of the Nadia Lobell). The Race 14 division field is led by world champion WARRAWEE UBEAUT, who drew the outside post 9. Also on the Saturday card, the great Foiled Again will lead the post parade for the $50,000 Foiled Again Invita- tional Pace. Foiled Again’s trainer, Ron Burke, sends out the morning-line choice from post 1 in the Tim Tetrick-driven BACKSTREET SHADOW. The 4-year-old son of Shadow Play was recently purchased by the Burke Brigade, and in his first start for his new barn last time out on July 20 at the Meadowlands, scored a 1:47.4 victory in a Preferred, equaling his career mark set for his prior connections on June 22 at the big M. Following The Meadows’ card, and in addition to the Hambletonian Oaks eliminations at the Meadowlands, stakes action can be found at Scioto Downs, with two divisions of the Ohio Sires Stakes for 3-year-old colt pacers. They are early on the card, Race 1 and 3, with the second $50,000 split featuring defending divisional champion HIGH ON PAYDAZE, who is still looking for his first win of the season, and the six-for-six ROCK CANDY. Both colts are trained by Brian Brian and will line up in posts 1 and 2, respectively. Yonkers Raceway has two New York Sires Stakes 3-Year- Old Colt & Gelding Trotting divisions on its Saturday night card, Races 7 and 8. North of the border, Woodbine Mohawk has two short fields of 3-year-old filly pacers HarnessRacing Weekend Preview, 19 of 22 July 26, 2019 www.harnessracing.com

What is the greatest harness race you’ve ever seen? What person or persons, living or deceased, I’m old school, so I could go back to Life Sign in the Jug, but would you like to have dinner with? I’m going to say Somebeachsomewhere and Art Official (in I’d give anything to be able to talk to my father again. But the 2008 Meadowlands Pace). otherwise Arnold Palmer would be someone I’d like to sit Who is the best horse you have ever driven? down with. I actually got to train a horse for Arnold Palmer and Delvin Miller. I don’t think I appreciated it at the time, and That’s another tough one. As far as accomplishments, I was probably more thrilled to be training one for Delvin. Sweet Lou. And I was lucky enough to drive Artsplace. Who is your favorite horse of all time? Are you a music lover? If so, what music do you listen to? I would say (Sweet) Lou, but Camorous. She was a gray mare that my brother trained and she was like a family member. For sure! I played in a rock band when I was in high school. I even had the mullet (hair style) going. My music is How much time do you think there should Bruce Springsteen, Bob Seger, Lynard Skynard. be between races? What is your favorite meal? Four minutes! (Laughing). Every other sport is trying to get quicker. I know it’s a proven fact that the drag helps handle, I’m a steak guy, but now that I’ve had sushi I could eat but don’t think it helps us get any new fans. that every day. What are your favorite things to do when What is one thing about you most people you are not racing? don’t know? Golf. And I really get a kick out of watching my wife (Beth Besides playing in a band, probably that I can recite Ann) and daughters barrel race, Horses, horses, horses! verses of the Bible. My mom was a Sunday school All three of my daughters, and Beth Ann, barrel race. teacher for 40 years. I carry a lot of water buckets. How many racing accidents? Broken bones? What is your idea of a great holiday/vacation? Too many to count, the worst one being the broken femur. We’re warm weather people and we’re beach people. This Beth Ann (a physical therapist) had me back in the bike year we took the kids to the Bahamas. in seven weeks!

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3 year olds set to battle in Ohio Sires Stakes Shartin N heading to Clara Barton Pace This weekend’s Ohio Sires Stakes (OSS) at Scioto Downs Rich Poillucci lives a short distance from Plainridge Park features round three action of the four-leg series, with a first in North Easton, Mass., and raced his first horses at race post time both nights of 6:30 p.m. On Friday, two Foxboro Park in 1986. Now 33 years later, after completing $50,000 divisions of 3-year-old filly pacers and a pair of a dream season with his Dan Patch Award winning mare $50,000 contests for 3-year-old trotting fillies will line up be- Shartin N, he will bring his prized pacer back to where it all hind the Scioto starting gate. Saturday night will feature started for him for a homecoming as she makes a start in two $50,000 OSS contests for 3-year-old pacing colts. more the inaugural $100,000 Clara Barton Distaff Pace at Plain- Fields set for Grand River’s Battle elims ridge on Sunday. more A total of five elimination dashes contested on Monday, McWicked wins Gerrity Memorial at Saratoga July 29, will determine the finalists for Grand River Race- The defending National Horse of the Year McWicked way’s two feature races during its 29th Industry Day event. (McArdle) came to town for the first time on Saturday Thirteen rookie pacing colts and geldings will compete in two $15,000 elimination divisions to earn a berth in the night to compete in the $260,000 Joe Gerrity Jr. Memorial 22nd annual Battle Of Waterloo. The top four finishers and Pace at Saratoga Casino Hotel. The Casie Coleman-trained one of the fifth-place finishers (as drawn by lot) will ad- Mcwicked earned more than $1.5 million in his award-win- vance to the $238,940 final. more ning 2018 campaign but recorded only one win in his first five starts in ’19 before heading into the season’s richest Aug. yearling supplement for race at the Spa. more Hambletonian Society races In 2019, the Hambletonian Society is accepting Supplemen- Ohio Sires Stakes halftime report card tal Yearling Nominations for the stakes and events they serv- The 2019 Ohio Sires Stakes (OSS) season has now com- ice that required a May 15 yearling nominating payment for pleted a little more than half of the events for 2- and 3- foals of 2018. “It was brought to our attention by the staking year-old Ohio-bred trotters and pacers of both genders. services that there are always a handful of yearlings missed The last of the four legs will be contested this week in the process in May,” said John Campbell, president of the through Aug. 24, with Super Night set for Sept. 1 at Hambletonian Society, which owns and administers 137 of Northfield Park where the $300,000 championships for the richest stakes in North America. “The board accepted the each division will be raced. more premise that the odd yearling may have been left out when it comes time to catalog yearlings for fall sales.” more New website for Ohio Breeders group The Ohio Harness Horse Breeders Association is proud to Low takeouts pad Big M players’ pockets announce the launch of its new website: https://ohiohar- Takeouts on exotic wagers have long been a concern for nesshorsebreeders.com. more serious players, and management at the Meadowlands has been proactive on this hot-button issue for an extended pe- Well-known Ohio owner Ken Bencic dies riod of time, leading to players walking away with far bigger Longtime horse owner Matthew K. “Ken” Bencic, 77, of payouts on some of the track’s most popular wagers. more Westlake, Ohio, died July 21. more HarnessRacing Weekend Preview, 21 of 22 July 26, 2019 www.harnessracing.com

Standardbred Poll Leading Breeders Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown Poll compiled by Harness Racing Communications for the week of July 23, 2019 Breeder Starters Winners Wins Earnings Hanover Shoe Farms Inc. 943 562 1,267 $15,515,847 AGS St-1-2-3 Earnings Pts Pvs 1. Shartin N (33) 6pm 11-10-0-0 $605,765 347 1 Winbak Farm 870 476 1,113 11,044,048 2. Atlanta (1) 4tm 7-6-1-0 438,330 288 2 Brittany Farms LLC 210 134 348 5,317,572 3. Greenshoe (1) 3tc 5-4-1-0 326,500 282 3 Blue Chip Bloodstock Inc. 198 107 263 2,891,860 4. Lather Up 4ph 9-6-0-1 411,405 241 4 White Birch Farm 150 87 201 2,889,190 5. Bettor’s Wish 3pc 7-5-2-0 554,630 165 T5 Steve Stewart 194 98 222 2,692,034 6. Captain Crunch 3pc 6-4-0-0 511,574 163 T5 Seelster Farms Inc. 189 101 247 2,289,919 7. Gimpanzee 3tc 3-3-0-0 161,688 94 8 Midland Acres Inc. 159 95 249 2,239,457 8. Hannelore Hanover 7tm 5-3-0-0 79,282 79 7 Diamond Creek Farm LLC 146 85 183 1,923,924 9. Best In Show 3pc 9-3-3-2 444,440 43 9 Robert McIntosh Stables Inc. 120 76 190 1,922,732 10. Millie’s Possesion 3tf 7-7-0-0 170,517 35 — Others receiving votes: Western Fame 33; McWicked 25; Stonebridge Soul 24; Evident Leading Money-Winning Sires Beauty 11; None Bettor A 9; Shake That House 8; Caviart Ally, Rich And Miserable, Six Pack USTA statistics through July 17, 2019 7; Green Manalishi S, Pilot Discretion 6; This Is The Plan, Warrawee Ubeaut 5; Bettor Joy N, Crystal Fashion, Tequila Monday 4; JK First Lady, Marseille, Sister Sledge, Workin Ona Mys- 3YO Pacers tery 3; Boadicea, Jimmy Freight, Mr Vicktor, Treacherous Reign 2; Courtly Choice, Nine Ways, Southwind Ozzi 1. Sire Name Foals Starters Earnings CAPTAINTREACHEROUS ...... 113 ...... 84 ...... $2,820,368 SOMEBEACHSOMEWHERE ...114 ...... 88 ...... 2,308,055 Harness Racing Leaders BETTOR'S DELIGHT ...... 122 ...... 98 ...... 2,247,546 Compiled by the USTA—through July 23, 2019 (week difference July 17-23). AMERICAN IDEAL ...... 89 ...... 80 ...... 1,745,284 Leading North American-Based Money-Winning Horses SWEET LOU ...... 97 ...... 74 ...... 1,644,497 SPORTSWRITER ...... 166 ...... 125 ...... 1,117,286 Sts. W P S Earnings ART MAJOR ...... 97 ...... 73 ...... 1,025,978 Shartin N (6pm) 11 10 0 0 $605,765 BETTERTHANCHEDDAR ...... 85 ...... 67 ...... 898,398 Bettor’s Wish (3pc) 7 5 2 0 554,630 ROCKIN IMAGE ...... 92 ...... 68 ...... 886,092 Western Fame (6ph) 11 6 1 2 539,300 WELL SAID ...... 71 ...... 58 ...... 851,067 Captain Crunch (3pc) 6 4 0 0 511,574 PET ROCK ...... 104 ...... 69 ...... 783,602 This Is The Plan (4pg) 11 1 5 0 498,097 ALWAYS A VIRGIN ...... 81 ...... 56 ...... 713,100 Best In Show (3pc) 9 3 3 2 444,440 SUNSHINE BEACH ...... 102 ...... 77 ...... 661,326 Atlanta (4tm) 7 6 1 0 438,330 TELLITLIKEITIS ...... 77 ...... 49 ...... 621,753 Lather Up (4ph) 9 6 0 1 411,405 A ROCKNROLL DANCE ...... 79 ...... 49 ...... 611,101 Shake That House (3pc) 7 6 0 0 336,400 DRAGON AGAIN ...... 72 ...... 48 ...... 587,501 Stonebridge Soul (3pf) 9 4 3 1 327,056 ROLL WITH JOE ...... 57 ...... 35 ...... 579,688 Leading Money-Winning Drivers BIG JIM ...... 61 ...... 48 ...... 575,155 MACH THREE ...... 72 ...... 58 ...... 542,843 Sts. W-P-S UDR Earnings (wk. diff) WESTERN IDEAL ...... 71 ...... 48 ...... 534,537 Tim Tetrick 1,860 433-324-229 .371 $7,400,258 ($317,808) Jason Bartlett 1,440 268-269-205 .337 5,547,637 (236,546) 3YO Trotters Yannick Gingras 1,256 253-185-175 .330 4,911,927 (321,915) Sire Name Foals Starters Earnings Dexter Dunn 1,545 234-204-188 .265 4,812,892 (170,801) MUSCLE HILL ...... 102 ...... 66 .....$1,607,537 George Brennan 1,225 228-198-149 .316 4,363,513 (136,885) CANTAB HALL ...... 96 ...... 64 ...... 1,347,707 Aaron Merriman 2,433 533-394-307 .351 4,212,397 (199,492) EXPLOSIVE MATTER ...... 79 ...... 55 ...... 1,056,060 Jordan Stratton 1,364 194-172-208 .263 4,119,359 (160,445) KADABRA ...... 63 ...... 48 ...... 930,480 Matt Kakaley 1,411 178-204-215 .257 4,058,884 (189,356) CHAPTER SEVEN ...... 49 ...... 37 ...... 879,493 Corey Callahan 1,687 197-225-231 .237 3,407,311 (134,460) CREDIT WINNER ...... 75 ...... 54 ...... 856,097 Chris Page 1,636 276-228-200 .287 3,275,965 (84,220) TRIXTON ...... 81 ...... 48 ...... 853,234 SWAN FOR ALL ...... 87 ...... 47 ...... 836,470 Leading Money-Winning Trainers UNCLE PETER ...... 85 ...... 55 ...... 781,799 Sts. W-P-S UTR Earnings (wk. diff) FATHER PATRICK ...... 47 ...... 28 ...... 776,663 Ron Burke 2,452 526-372-296 .339 $9,427,246 ($645,517) MUSCLE MASS ...... 45 ...... 34 ...... 639,462 Rene Allard 1,006 194-145-118 .312 3,351,665 (136,835) MUSCLE MASSIVE ...... 96 ...... 59 ...... 584,460 Scott Di Domenico 783 149-117-98 .315 2,339,986 (97,337) ARCHANGEL ...... 65 ...... 39 ...... 546,341 Jennifer Bongiorno 490 120-79-58 .374 2,076,246 (129,011) DONATO HANOVER ...... 78 ...... 43 ...... 482,335 Nick Surick 1,042 204-167-136 .328 2,043,820 (33,900) CONWAY HALL ...... 76 ...... 44 ...... 440,308 Jim King Jr. 323 88-46-41 .394 1,929,098 (79,110) E L TITAN ...... 33 ...... 30 ...... 426,417 Richard Moreau 1,045 156-163-143 .282 1,854,609 (81,140) YANKEE GLIDE ...... 61 ...... 39 ...... 422,942 Virgil Morgan Jr. 743 141-102-91 .307 1,737,383 (125,952) MANOFMANYMISSIONS ...... 50 ...... 32 ...... 420,426 Carmen Auciello 916 108-127-119 .238 1,631,804 (55,752) CRAZED ...... 48 ...... 32 ...... 406,084 Erv Miller 464 88-81-60 .330 1,623,488 (160,906) RC ROYALTY ...... 34 ...... 26 ...... 399,001 August 2 019

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Cane 3CP (M) 28 29 30 31123Cashman Mem. OHT (M) Clara Barton OMP (PRc) Doherty Mem. 2FT final (M) Great Northeast OHP (Phl) Duenna 3FT (M) Great Northeast OHP (PcD) Hambletonian 3CT (M) Great Northeast OMP (PcD) NYSS/Excelsior 2FP (YR) Hambletonian Oaks 3FT final (M) Great Northeast OHT (PcD) Ohio St. Fair 2FP (ScD) Haughton Mem. 2CT final (M) MSRF 2CP (OD) Battle of Belles 2FP elims (GRvr) INSS 2CT (HoP) NYSS/Excelsior 2FT (VD) Ohio St. Fair 3FP (ScD) Ky. Fair Stake 2&3YO finals (Lex) MSRF 2FT (OD) Battle of Waterloo 2CP elims (GRvr) INSS 2FT (HoP) INSS 2FP (HoP) Ohio St. Fair 2CT (ScD) Ohio St. Fair 3FT (ScD) Lady Liberty/McKee Mem. (M) NYSS/Excelsior 2CP (Btva) Dream Maker 2CP (Wbsb) NYSS/Excelsior 3FP (Stga) MSRF 2CT (OD) Ohio St. Fair 2FT (ScD) ONSS Gold 3CP (Wbsb) Ohio St. Fair 2CP/3CP/3CT (ScD) Spirit Of Mass. 3CT (PRc) NYSS/Excelsior 3FT (MR) Whenuwishuponastar 2FP (Wbsb) MSRF 2FP (OD) Pure Ivory 2FT (Wbsb) Townsend Ackerman 3CT (M) Shady Daisy/Steele Mem. (M) 45678910

Charna Ohio-sired Inv. (Nfld) Fox Stake 2CP (Ind) Gold Cup & Saucer elims (Chrtn) Great Northeast OMP (Phl) Hoosier 2YOs (Ind) Dan Patch OHP (HoP) Milstein Mem. Inv. 3CP (Nfld) Great Northeast OHT (Phl) Buckeye Stallion 2CT (Urbna) Horseman 3YOs (Ind) KYSS 2CT/2FT (Lex) OHSS 2CT/2FP (Nfld) NYSS/Excelsior 3CT (Stga) MDSS 2CP/2FT (OD) Battle of Belles 2FP final (GRvr) Buckeye Stallion 2CP/2FP (Urbna) MDSS 2CT/2FP (OD) NYSS/Excelsior 3FT (VD) ONSS Gold 2FT (Wbsb) OHSS 3CT/3FP (Nfld) NYSS/Excelsior 3CP (Btva) Battle of Waterloo 2CP final (GRvr) NYSS/Excelsior 2CP (YR) NYSS/Excelsior 2CT (Btva) ONSS Gold 2CT (Wbsb) PASS 2CT (Phl) PASS/PA Stallion 2CP (Mea) PASS/PA Stallion 2FP (PcD) Dream Maker 2CP (Wbsb) Whenuwishuponastar 2FP (Wbsb) Wilfong 2CT (Ind) PA Stallion 2CT (Phl) Tompkins-Geers 2YOs (TgDn) KYSS 2CP/2FP (Lex)

11KYSS 3CT/3FT (Lex) 12 13 14 15 16 17 Crawford Farms OHT (TgDn) Emp. Breeders 3CP elims (TgDn) Emp. Breeders 3FP elims (TgDn) Gold Cup & Saucer final (Chrtn) Great Northeast OHP (Phl) Dream Maker 2CP final (Wbsb) Great Northeast OHP (PcD) Great Northeast OMP (PcD) Gold Cup & Saucer elims (Chrtn) Buckeye Stalion 2FT (ScD) INSS 3FT (HoP) Define The World 2CT (Wbsb) INSS 3FP (HoP) Great Northeast OHT (PcD) NYSS/Excelsior 2FT (MR) ONSS Gold 3FT (GeoD) NYSS/Excelsior 2FP (Btva) INSS 3CT (HoP) INSS 3CP (HoP) NYSS/Excelsior 2CP (VD) Joie De Vie OMT (TgDn) ONSS Gold 3CT (Wbsb) PASS 2FP (Mea) OHSSS 2FT (Nfld) KYSS 3CP/3FP (Lex) OHSS 3FT (ScD) OHSS 2CP (ScD) PASS 3FP/PA Stallion (PcD) PA Stallion 2FP (Mea) Whenuwishuponastar 2FP (Wbsb) ONSS Gold 2FP (GRvr) Pure Ivory 2FT (Wbsb) ONSS Gold 2CP (Wbsb) PASS/PA Stallion 2CT (Mea)

KYSS 2CT/2FT (Lex) KYSS 3CT/3FT (Lex) 18MDSS 2CP/2FT (OD) 19 20 21 22 23 24 OHSS 2CP (Nfld) Emp. Breeders 3CP final (TgDn) Can. Pacing Derby elims (Wbsb) Emp. Breeders 3FP final (TgDn) Define The World 2CT final (Wbsb) Eternal Camnation 2FP (Wbsb) Great Northeast OMP/OHT (Phl) INSS 2CT (HoP) INSS 2FP (HoP) Hudson 3FT elims (YR) Artiscape/Miss Versatility (TgDn) MDSS 2CT/2FP (OD) KYSS 2CP/2FP (Lex) Casual Breeze 3FT (Wbsb) Lady Maud/Messenger elims (YR) ONSS Gold 3CP/Rowe Mem. (GeoD) NYSS/Excelsior 2FP (Stga) NYSS/Excelsior 2FT (YR) INSS 2CP (HoP) Maple Leaf OHT elims (Wbsb) PASS/PA Stallion 2CP (PcD) NYSS/Excelsior 2CT (MR) OHSS 2FT (ScD) OHSS 2FP (ScD) NYSS/Excelsior 3FT (Btva) Nassagaweya 2CP (Wbsb) Prix d’Ete 4YOP (TrRvs) PASS/PA Stallion 3FT (Mea) INSS 2FT (HoP) PA Stallion 2FP (Phl) PASS 2FP (Phl) OHSS 3CP (ScD) NYSS/Excelsior 3CT (Btva) Roll With Joe OHP (TgDn) Harrington Raceway opens OHSS 2CT (ScD) PASS/PA Stallion 3CT (Mea) Pure Ivory 2FT final (Wbsb) PASS/PA Stallion 3CP (Mea) Yonkers Trot 3CT elims (YR)

Hudson 3FT final (YR) 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 KYSS 2CT/2FT (Lex) Can. Pacing Derby final (Wbsb) Great Northeast OHP (Phl) INSS 3FT (HoP) Great Northeast OHP (PcD) Great Northeast OMP/OHT (PcD) MDSS 2CT/2FP finals (OD) Lady Maud/Messenger finals (YR) KYSS 3CP/3FP (Lex) INSS 2FT (HoP) NYSS/Excelsior 3FP (Btva) Champlain 2CT (Wbsb) Maple Leaf OHT final (Wbsb) MDSS 2CP/2FT finals (OD) ISA Elite 2YOs/3YOs (Ind) PA Stallion 2CP (Phl) Champlain 2FT (Wbsb) INSS 3CP/2CP (HoP) NJ SDF 2CP/2FP (Fhld) ONSS Gold 3FP (RidC) NYSS/Excelsior 2CT (Stga) PASS 2FT/PA Stallion (Mea) INSS 2FP (HoP) NJ SDF 2FT (Fhld) ONSS Gold 2CP (Wbsb) PASS/PA Stallion 2CT (PcD) Blooded Horse Summer Blooded Horse Summer NYSS/Excelsior 3CP (YR) NYSS/Excelsior 2FP (VD) Simcoe 3CP (Wbsb) Reynolds 2YOs (TgDn) PASS/PA Stallion 3FP (Mea) Mixed Sale at Springfield, Ohio Mixed Sale at Springfield, Ohio PASS 2CP (Phl) ONSS Gold 2FP (Wbsb) Yonkers Trot 3CT final (YR) Now Accepting Entries To The HARRISBURG MIXED SALE November 7 & 8, 2019

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