Always B Miki Sprints Off in Career Curtain Call
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Sunday, November 13, 2016 Always B Miki sprints off in career curtain call The world?s fastest standardbred capped his racing career with a 1:48.2 victory in the $400,000 TVG at the Meadowlands. by James Witherite / Meadowlands racing media Michael Lisa Always B Miki (David Miller) capped his racing career in style, winning the $400,000 TVG Final at the Meadowlands in 1:48.2. 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Michelle and Albert Crawford Family owned and operated since 1966 CrawfordFarms.com Harness Racing Update In today?s HRU Breaking Stride: A new look page 5 Hoosier Park concludes season; Burke and Tetrick win titles page 6 Moreau gets 5,000th training win page 7 Faraldo responds to Towers? column page 7 Hail to the fans page 8 David Miller moved Always B Miki first-over out of midfield after patiently stalking sizzling fractions of :25.4 and :54.1, making gradual gains into pacesetter All Bets Off (Matt Kakaley) through the far turn. The five-year-old son of Always A Virgin? Artstopper pushed to the fore in upper stretch, leaving All Bets Off well in his wake and evading eventual runner-up Mach It So (Tim Tetrick) by Michael Lisa four-and-a-quarter lengths. Melmerby Beach (Marcus Miller) It was a sweet ending to an incredible racing career for Alway B Miki, the fastest horse in history. benefitted from the outer flow and saved third with a mild stand-side push over the tiring All Bets Off. Always B Miki ($2.10) will always be remembered as a champion. Miller and trainer Jimmy Takter had nothing but glowing reports of Always B Miki?s curtain call. The fastest pacer in the history of harness racing capped his career in triumphant fashion, using a sustained first-over ?When I asked him, he took right off,? said Miller. ?Jimmy bid to overpower All Bets Off and sprint off to a 1:48.2 (Takter) has done a great job keeping him good all year, and I victory in the $400,000 TVG Free-For-All Pace on Saturday tell you what, he?s good today as he?s been all year. He?s an (Nov. 12) evening at The Meadowlands. incredible horse; he?s a true champion.? Harness Racing Update | 2 | November 13, 2016 Harness Racing Update ?It?s a wonderful feeling standing here at our home track,? said Takter. ?He?s just a wonderful horse to be around. He?s so personable, anybody working with this horse just would love him. ?It?s nice to quit on the top, too. This horse has a future ahead of him, and it?s going to be very, very exciting to train his offspring.? Always B Miki wraps up his racing career with 30 wins in 53 starts ? 12 of those wins coming this year ? as well as $2,719,368 in earnings for the Bluewood Stable, the Roll the Dice Stable, and Christina Takter. The pacer, who recorded the fastest mile in history when he won in 1:46 in October at Red Mile, now goes to stud duty at Diamond Creek Farm in Pennsylvania. Michael Lisa Hannelore Hanover (Yannick Gingras) won her $200,000 TVG final in 1:51.4. Hannelore Hanover prevails again in mares trot In the $200,000 TVG for trotting mares (race 4), Hannelore Hanover ($3.60) rallied from off the pace to once again defeat Bee a Magician, vaulting home and reeling in the quadruple millionaire for a 1:51.4 score. Yannick Gingras settled the four-year-old Swan for All? High Sobriety mare well off a contested pace before sliding second-over behind Shake It Cerry (David Miller) on approach to the far turn. After she was carried into the mid-division, Hannelore Hanover angled three-wide off the far turn and found her best strides in the final eighth of a mile, charging home to collar Bee a Magician (Brian Sears) just inside the sixteenth pole and draw clear by one-and-three-quarter lengths. D?One (Tetrick) held third from a pocket trip, but was four lengths detached from the top pair. Ron Burke trains 26-time winner Hannelore Hanover for the Burke Racing Stable, the Weaver Bruscemi partnership, Frank Baldachino, and the J&T Silva Stables. Harness Racing Update | 3 | November 13, 2016 Harness Racing Update compelling race which saw the entire octet covered by two lengths at the winning post. The six-year-old Boy Band? Malimony gelding pushed clear of JL Cruze (John Campbell) following a :27.2 initial quarter and worked to stave off the first-over threat of three-year-old Crown champion Bar Hopping (Tetrick) through the far turn. Upon straightening for home, Mark MacDonald called upon Obrigado for every ounce of effort he had remaining, and the pair dug in to withstand a late three-wide charge from Crazy Michael Lisa Wow (Gingras) by a nose in 1:52.4. Lookslikeachpndale Lady Shadow (Yannick Gingras) won the TVG for pacing mares in (Zeron) charged down the grandstand side to take third over 1:50. odds-on favorite Resolve (Åke Svanstedt), who only could Lady Shadow sustains first-over in mares pace muster fourth place from a third-over trip while only missing by a neck. Lady Shadow ($2.40) used nearly identical tactics as Always B Miki en route to her 1:50 win in the $200,000 TVG Trainer Paul Kelley shares ownership of Obrigado with the for pacing mares (race 8), grinding down rival Solar Sister SRF Stable, Linwood Higgins, and Stable 45. and evading the late-emerging Bedroomconfessions by Total handle for the 12-race card was $2,695,344. one-and-a-half lengths. The five-year-old Shadow Play? Lady Caella mare earned her 12th win of the season for trainer Ron Adams and the partnership of David Kryway, Carl Atley, Ed Gold, and the BFJ Stable, emerging off the pegs out of midfield as Solar Sister (Sears) brushed into a :54.3 half mile and working to the fore with just over a quarter mile remaining. After wearing down Solar Sister, Lady Shadow worked to gain separation on the field while Bedroomconfessions (Scott Zeron), who knifed through traffic to just capture second from a staying Sassa Hanover (Matt Kakaley). Gingras earned a stakes driving double on the night with Lady Shadow. About Harness Racing Update Harness Racing Update is owned by HRU Publications of Millwood, NY and will publish Fridays and Sundays November through April. HRU will add Saturday editions May through October, publishing 3 days per week, and of course will add editions throughout the year as major news breaks. 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