FRI DAY, APRIL 13, 2018 ©2018 HORSEMAN PUBLISHING CO., LEXINGTON, KY USA • FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION C ALL ( 8 59) 2 76 - 4026 B-7, N-42, G-68, Go Stormtracker!! Bingo games are put on hold briefly some nights at a sen - DON’T BE SHUT OUT...ENTER NOW! ior living residence in Aurora, Col., a suburb of Denver, where harness racing is gaining in popularity. And if you think cheers for hitting a coverall on a bingo game are big, you ought to hear the roar when the 4-year-old pacing mare Stormtracker scores a victory. Having won seven races already in a brief, 12-race career, there has been plenty of cheering for Stormtracker among residents who gather to watch the races. The group is there TUESDAY, MAY 15, 2018 “We gather about in support of Ruth Cohen, the 10 minutes before 84-year-old mother of Andrew Racehorses, racing prospects, the race, and Cohen, whose Bay’s Stable broodmares, foals, yearlings & more! shares ownership of Storm - New Location! we all root for THE CHAMPIONS CENTER • Springfield, OH tracker. Stormtracker, and Intersection of SR 41 & I-70 between Columbus & Dayton then when the race "Usually it's about seven of us is over everyone and the nice thing is it is very ENTRIES CLOSING SOON! goes their own quick,” said Ruth. “We gather www.bloodedhorse.com way again.” about 10 minutes before the ENTER ONLINE AT race, and we all root for Storm - –Ruth Cohen tracker, and then when the race is over everyone goes their own way again. A few of the ladies wait to watch the replay in case they've missed something the first time around.” Newly named as a columnist for Rolling Stone magazine “There’s No Substitute for Experience” and a former contributor to The Horseman And Fair World JERRY HAWS • P.O. Box 187 • Wilmore, Kentucky 40390 and harnessracing.com, Andrew is a native Canadian now Phone: (859) 858-4415 • Fax: (859) 858-8498 living in Colorado. His late father, who became a harness rac - ing fan while living in Montreal, introduced him to the sport. When Stormtracker made her racing debut last fall after an in - WHAT’S INSIDE . jury forced her to miss her entire freshman season, Andy told Brown talks Hackett starters —pg. 4 his mother that since the pacer was Canadian-bred (by Big Rare white horse at Pocono —pg. 5 Jim), he would give her any money earned as profit. He said his mother has conversed with trainer Linda Toscano about the Future looks good at Northville —pg. 6 horse and that the “two of them get along very well.” Kentucky addresses absolute insurer rule —pg. 7 As a result of her son’s offer, Ruth started watching Storm - Good reviews for Harrah’s Philly’s track —pg. 9 tracker’s races via a computer. She also told some fellow residents about Stormtracker, who asked to join her when the best part is the big screen because it allows everyone to she watched the mare race. A neighbor then suggested see what's happening.” hooking up the laptop to a big-screen television in one of Andy loves the extra camaraderie that Stormtracker has the common rooms. generated at his mother’s residence. "My friend Ron is responsible for getting everyone to - “It’s become a nice social event,” he said. “They don’t gether,” said Ruth. “He goes online and makes sure we can know much about racing but the horses look huge on the watch the race and Andy always gives us a heads-up about big screen. Thankfully, Stormtracker has been good pretty when she is racing. Ron has missed the past few races much every week.” though because he had an operation and has trouble walk - Pretty good, that she is. After going unraced at two due to ing, but we are expecting him back soon. a bone fracture, Stormtracker has yet to finish off the board “Some of the ladies are more interested in horse racing in 12 career starts. After three wins, one second and one than others but everyone loves the horses themselves and third in 2017 in five starts, Stormtracker has four wins and Continues on page 2 ›››› HarnessRacing Weekend Preview, 2 of 12 April 13, 2018 www.harnessracing.com three seconds in seven attempts this year. The $52,000 year - FREE ling purchase has now returned $68,450 to her connections, rogram which include Cohen’s Bay’s Stable, Enviro Stables, Camelot P HIS EEK END S Pages T W ’ Stable and John Mehlenbacher. EATURED ACES After starting the year out at Dover Downs, Stormtracker F R moved to the Big M for last weekend’s opening round of the Friday, April 13 All times listed are local. three-week Burning Point Series for older mare pacers. 8:30p YR6 Matchmaker OMP div. Trackmaster PPs Starting from post 7 with Corey Callahan in the first of two 8:50p YR7 Matchmaker OMP div. Trackmaster PPs divisions, Stormtracker closed late to finish second by 2 ½ 9:05p M6 Shiaway St. Pat OT div. Trackmaster PPs lengths in a 1:50.3 effort by winner Apple Bottom Jeans. 10:10p YR11 Matchmaker OMP div. Trackmaster PPs Stormtracker and Apple Bottom Jeans drew into separate Click here to download all Friday PPs $17,500 splits in Saturday’s second leg of the Burning Point. With Victor Kirby back in the bike, Stormtracker will start Saturday, April 14 from post 1 in the second division (Race 3). 7:40p M2 Burning Point OMP div. Trackmaster PPs Being in the Mountain Time Zone helps immensely in guar - 8:00p M3 Burning Point OMP div. Trackmaster PPs anteeing an early post time for any of Stormtracker’s races. 8:10p YR5 Levy Mem. OHP div. Trackmaster PPs “Here in Denver the races have been around 5 or 6 o'clock, 8:30p YR6 Levy Mem. OHP div. Trackmaster PPs which is perfect because everyone can finish their dinner 8:50p YR7 Levy Mem. OHP div. Trackmaster PPs and then watch the race, or watch the race and then go right 9:05p M6 Whata Baron OHP div. Trackmaster PPs to dinner," said Ruth. “Some of the staff get a kick out of it 9:30p Moh7 Preferred Pace Trackmaster PPs and it’s never the same people because everyone has a dif - Click here to download all Saturday PPs ferent schedule.”-- By Gordon Waterstone Visit www .trackmaster .com HarnessRacing Weekend Preview and subscribe to download Kathy Parker Heather Kemper full cards from your favorite tracks! kparker @harnessracing .com hkemper@ harnessracing .com Editor / General Manager Production Manager Lynne Myers Hannah Reynolds © Copyright Horseman Publishing Company . lmyers @harnessracing .com hreynolds@ harnessracing .com A product of Horseman Publishing Company , publishers of the website Advertising Manager Editorial Production www .harnessracing .com and The Horseman And Fair World magazine . 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Trainer Brian Brown’s stable shipped north to Ohio from Last year Done Well p,2, 1:51.2f, a colt by Well Said, was Florida the first weekend of April and is now settled in at the undefeated in four starts, which included three Pennsylva - Delaware County Fair, about to be back in the racing groove nia Sires Stakes, before he suffered an injury in early Au - after spending the winter months at Spring Garden Ranch gust. The colt cracked a cannon bone on his right hind leg just north of Orlando. and was sidelined from racing and training until last De - Brown has several Ohio-sired 3 year olds entered in this cember. weekend’s James Hackett Memorial eliminations for pacers Owned by the Wingfield Brothers, James Stambaugh, Milt at Miami Valley: the fillies Pure Paradise and Grant Me This Leeman and Alan Keith, Done Well qualified at Spring Gar - on Friday night and the colts Bus Ninethirtysix and Drag - den Ranch on March 23, but performed poorly, pacing in onology on Saturday. only 1:58 and finishing second when he was expected to “Of my Hackett colts, Dragonology is the better one of the pull away for a win, which prompted Brown to have him two, I think,” said Brown of the Dragon Again colt who took checked out by a vet. a 1:53.2 mark at Delaware last fall in winning an Ohio “He had blood coming out of his nose, and the amount of Breeders Championship. “He trained really good this week.” blood he had when they scoped him, they knew something C o n r was up,” shared Brown. “They found an abscess and they a d P h said it was between the size of a dime and a quarter, but o t o that they’ve seen some as big as a football. They said the abscess popped so that’s why there was so much blood.” While the abscess was diagnosed at a veterinary clinic in Ocala, Fla., Done Well was shipped north to be treated in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber in Lexington, Ky., at the well- known KESMARC facility.