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Saturday, January 26, 2008

Woodbine Racetrack 2008 Harness Racing Stakes schedule

TORONTO, January 22 - Woodbine Entertainment Racetrack in Canada today announced its lucrative 2008 Standardbred stakes schedule, which includes the 25th renewal of the $1.5 million Pepsi North America Cup at Mohawk.

The stakes calendar, worth more than $20 million in stakes finals this year, is the richest on the continent.

The Pepsi North America Cup, WEG's signature harness race, will be held for just the second time at Mohawk on Saturday, June 14. The card will offer more than $3 million in stakes action. Also featured are the $720,000 Fan Hanover Stakes, the $532,000 Elegantimage Stakes and the $335,000 Goodtimes Stakes.

WEG has two other seven-figure events slated for 2008. The $1 million Metro Pace is set for Saturday, August 30 and the $1 million Canadian Trotting Classic on Saturday, September 13. Both races are at Mohawk.

The organization is also proud to host $1.5 million Breeders Crown for older trotters and pacers as part of the Metro Pace card, which includes the $780,000 Shes A Great Lady Pace.

"Once again we're pleased to offer what we believe is the finest stakes program in harness racing," said Bruce Murray, WEG's Vice-President of Standardbred Racing. "We sincerely appreciate the support that owners and trainers have shown in supporting these terrific events."

In addition to the 'Big Three' stakes, Mohawk will play host to several other major events including the $750,000 Canadian Pacing Derby (Saturday, August 16) and the $700,000 Maple Leaf Trot (Saturday, September 20).

The $535,000 William Wellwood Memorial and the $575,000 Peaceful Way Stakes, formerly known as the Oakville, re-named in honour of the great champion, will take place on Sunday, September 14 at Mohawk.

Both the $2.5 million Fall Four card (Saturday, October 25) and the $2.4 million OSS Super Finals (Saturday, November 15), will once again be contested at Woodbine.

Click here to view the entire 2008 stakes schedule .

Friday, January 25, 2008

what to give the mare who has everything; Standardbred Outcross Sires

Recognizing that the dominant sire lines in harness racing are:

Pacing:

No Nukes - Western Hanover

Abercrombie - Artsplace

Cam Fella



Trotting:

Valley Victory

Garland Lobell

Speedy Crown

Super Bowl

If your mare already has large doses of the above lines, here then are a few outcross sires to consider:

Pacing outcross sires:


Apaches Fame (Big Towner line)


Dragon Again (Tyler B line)

Incredible Finale (Shadow Wave line)

Jenna's Beach Boy (French Chef line)


Mach Three (Direct Scooter line)
and Mach Three's dad Matts Scooter (Direct Scooter line)

Towner's Big Guy (Big Towner son)


Trotting outcross sires:


Amigo Hall (Noble Gesture line)

Chip Chip Hooray (Arnie Almahurst line)

Kadabra (Madison Avenue (a son of Nevele Pride) is great grandsire)

Kadabra has the most obscure top line of any major trotting stallion, but being out of a Mambrino Beauty family mare with a double dose of Speedy Crown means he's a great match for Superbowl and Garland Lobell line mares

SJ'S Caviar (Photo Maker line)


Check back here for an expanded roster of potential outcross sires, but consider talented sons of the above as candidates also.

Friday, January 18, 2008

Standardbred Horse Show in Milton July 6, versatility of breed being showcased

article from: www standardbredcanada.ca


Standardbred Showcase Announced

January 7, 2008

An energetic group of race and riding fans have joined forces to organize a professional show to promote the breed of the standardbred as a true performance horse.

The Standardbred Showcase will be held at Oxer Stables in Milton on Sunday July 6, 2008. This show will follow the successful format of other breeds that offers numerous different classes that showcase the many different talents and abilities of the breed.

While other shows allow standardbred owners to show their horse in a fun environment, this show will showcase almost every discipline known to regular riding shows. It is the hope of this group that once people see the versatility of the standardbred more people will make the choice of riding a standardbred.

Classes will include: halter, English pleasure, equitation, hunter, jumper and dressage divisions. Western classes will include pleasure, equitation, horsemanship, trail and games division. Saddle seat classes for gaited horses and driving will also be available. Trade show and class sponsorships are available.


Full article and contact info at: Standardbred Horse Show to highlight versatility of breed





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Standarbred racehorse Lis Mara wins homes for poor in Haiti

Lis Mara a champion on the track and in life

article from: www.HarnessLink.com


At The Rail with Carol Hodes 24-May-2007


“My view is that God sends you these tools, and you’re a vehicle to do some good in the world.” It is hard to argue with horse owner Michael Gulotta, especially when that vehicle is the supremely talented Lis Mara, the 2006 Older Pacing Horse of the Year, who is now a perfect two-for-two in 2007. (May 6th)

Lis Mara is a horse that does good when he does well. Gulotta, who is from Annandale, New Jersey, donates a portion of his earnings to build houses for the poor in Haiti and to help care for retired standardbreds.

“It’s tremendously rewarding to have such an accomplished and capable horse,” said Gulotta, who with three other partners races as MJG Racing which owns 70 percent of Lis Mara. “But you like to think the horse came to you for a reason, and you want to do good.

“We’re going to donate a percentage of his earnings to the Standardbred Retirement Foundation [SRF],” Gulotta added. “And through Food for the Poor in Haiti, we’ve built nine houses – he’s built nine houses – and they named the street Lis Mara Drive in Port O Prince. They sent us a picture of the street name.

“We’ve pledged a lifetime breeding to SRF, and we’ll pledge a percentage of his earnings,” he confirmed.”

Lis Mara, now five, has $1.2 million in earnings thanks to his 20th career victory in the $85,000 second leg of the Pacing Classic on Saturday night [May 5] at the Meadowlands. He paced the mile in 1:49 flat, three ticks off his 1:48.2 season’s opener on April 28 but quite a bit of his life mark of 1:47.3 in last summer’s Breeders Crown Open Pace at the Meadowlands.

If there is something mystical about the pacer’s prowess on the track, it carried over to the circumstances that led to Gulotta acquiring him.

“When I called Erv [Illinois-based trainer Erv Miller] to look at the horse, he was actually a few miles away from the horse in Canada,” Gulotta recalled. “He was going to leave that afternoon. He just had enough time to go over and look at the horse. Fate had him in the right place.

“He looked at the horse and called me and said, Mike, ‘you NEED to own this horse,’” Gulotta explained. “He’s never said that before. Erv is very understated, very humble and quiet. When he said you need to own this horse that was an endorsement. He liked the way he was made.”

Gulotta and his partners -- New Jerseyans John Jarka of Florham Park, James Hess of Hillsboro and Otis Ray of Somerset -- paid $245,000 for their 70 percent interest in Lis Mara while original owner, Louis “Andy” Willinger of Louisville, Kentucky, retained 30 percent.

“I was told by someone that they thought I was crazy, that I had money to burn,” conceded Guilotta. “Now he says, ‘you were right.’ It’s a calculated risk. You assess risk and reward. So this is not all that far from my business background.

“Hess, Jarka and Ray – we’ve been co-workers for as long as 30 years,” noted Gulotta. “We’re four actuaries. We met in business and got interested in the horses. We started in claiming, then went to yearling sales, and bought Worldly Beauty [who would earn $1.9 million] and bred Little Miss K [$530,000 earner]. We’ve just been tremendously blessed.”

While Gulotta, 57, places Lis Mara on an equine plane of existence above all others, he has had his share of top horses for more than a decade.

“We’ve had incredible success,” he said. “I had a horse named Island Glow that made $600,000. I had a horse named Fulfilled Dreams who made $500,000. I had a horse once named Camourous, and she won 22 races in one year.

“Breeding is a much bigger portfolio for us now,” he noted. “We have eight mares, four foals this year already, four yearlings and three foals on the way. We’ve got a bunch of two and three-year-olds and John Adams.

“Racing for us now are John Adams [now five and with nearly $370,000 banked], Lis Mara and those that are going to race, [five] two-year-olds and one three-year-old in whom we have high confidence,” he added.

That three-year-old is the unraced Modern Desire, a son of Real Desire out of Wendy M Hanover, a full sister to Western Hanover, who has already produced the $1 million earner Modern Art.

“He was just immature at two but doing very well,” said Gulotta, who owns the colt with his longtime racing partner Craig Lipka [Hill View Enterprises]. “Erv thinks he’ll be a very good horse. And Erv is usually right.”

Dan Hajjar, part of Gulotta’s team, counsels him on his horse investments and is “like another son to me.” Gulotta credits Gerry Block for finding Lis Mara, who had been racing in Ontario for Willinger, William Lambeth and the Saulsbrook Stables with William McNeil training.

Racing is business proposition for Gulotta, who is chairman of the Chicago-based Aon Consulting USA, an insurance brokerage and human resource consulting business.

“It’s profitable, even after depreciation,” he noted. “My advice [to new owners] is to diversify. We use investment principles and apply it to the horse business. And then associate yourself with great people. If you use those two principles, you’ll hit good ones once in a while. But a Lis Mara comes along once in a lifetime.

“His performance is so extreme, it is beyond good luck,” he said. “Worldly Beauty was the first entry to the stakes arena [for us], but he’s beyond superlative. It’s always gratifying to have a great horse, and they are both great.”

Gulotta and his wife, Madeline, are the parents of two children. Mike Jr. is a lecturer in communication studies at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia and is married to April. Daughter Elaine and her husband, Tyler, have two children, five-year-old Luke Michael and two-year-old Maya.

“My grandson loves racing,” Gulotta noted. “Lis Mara is a vehicle for passing on this legacy, this passion for harness racing.”

No one is underestimating what Lis Mara can do. He was sent off at odds of 1-5 on Saturday night and coasted to victory with a 53.4 second half, final panel in 26 seconds flat. His dance card includes the $325,000 estimated Graduate on May 19 and the $700,000 estimated William Haughton on July 7, both at the Meadowlands.

How fast he can go is anyone’s guess. He might even be able to eclipse the time trial record of 1:46.1 set by his sire, Cambest, in 1988.

“There are no words to describe it,” Gulotta said of owning Lis Mara. “You think you’re dreaming.”

The toughest challenge for Lis Mara, named for the late football Giants owner Wellington Mara, may not be defeating the competition but finding competition.

When he was entered to qualify at the Southern Oaks Training Center in Florida on April 11, no one would go with him so he put in an official workout, pacing the mile in 1:53.4 with driver Brian Sears in the sulky. Sears was back at the lines for his 1:49.1 record-setting qualifier at the Meadowlands on April 19, finishing nearly 11 lengths ahead of the 2006 Pacer of the Year, Total Truth.

In the five-year-old’s first start of the year in a $42,000 open on April 28, he toured the Meadowlands oval in a sizzling 1:48.2

“Amazingly, he was well within himself [in that race], Gulotta recalled. “Brian did not pull the earplugs. He had the ‘slower” bike on him, the Telstar. He didn’t have the Harmer bike on him. So now he has his Harmer bike, which we bought him. The new bike just got delivered on Sunday [April 29].”

With 20 wins, 11 seconds and four thirds from 48 starts, Lis Mara has now earned $1,211,521 lifetime. Most of that was accomplished in 2006 with 16 of 17 finishes in-the-money and a bankroll of $967,485. Last summer, he strung together five straight wins, beginning with the $830,370 Canadian Pacing Derby at Mohawk on June 24 and including the $500,000 Breeders Crown on July 29 at the Meadowlands. The skein ended with a second-place finish to Holborn Hanover in the $203,000 American National Final on August 26 at Balmoral Park.

He was not only the United States Harness Writers Association’s Dan Patch Award winner as Older Pacing Horse of the Year but received the same accolades from Harness Tracks of America [Nova Award] and Standardbred Canada [O’Brien Award].

“The way he acts, he could be the next big horse the business has seen,” trainer Miller was quoted as saying. “We’ll have to find out; we’ll have to let him tell us.” Gulotta would agree.

“You never know what is in a horse’s heart, but I do know what is in my horse’s heart,” Gulotta said. “He’s a very happy horse; he absolutely loves his work. And he is very, very smart.”

At some point, Lis Mara’s next career will be as a stallion.



Full article continues at: Lis Mara winnings benefit poor in Haiti





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Saturday, January 12, 2008

Meadowlands Racetrack Major Standardbred Stakes 2008

Major harness horse stakes races at Meadowlands in 2008, pacers and trotters, January to early August, $100,000 plus::


Day

Date

Purse

E/G

Name of Race

Leg

Gait

Age/Sex

Sat

1/26/2008

$100,000

E

PRESIDENTIAL

LC

F

FFA P

Fri

3/21/2008

$100,000

E

OVERBID

LC

F

FFA M P

Sat

3/22/2008

$100,000

E

MATT'S SCOOTER

LC

F

3 CG P

Sat

3/22/2008

$100,000

E

FOUR LEAF CLOVER

LC

F

3,4,5 P

Fri

5/2/2008

$100,000

E

SU MAC LAD

LC

F

FFA T

Sat

5/10/2008

$225,000

E

BERRY'S CREEK

EC

F

3 OPEN

Sun

5/11/2008

$100,000

E

MATRIARCH

STK


FFA M P

Sat

5/17/2008

$180,000

E

A.J. CUTLER MEMORIAL

EC

F

FFA T

Sat

5/17/2008

$225,000

E

GRADUATE

EC

F

FFA P

Sat

5/31/2008

$200,000

E

MISS NEW JERSEY

STK

F

3 F NJ P

Sat

5/31/2008

$500,000

E

NEW JERSEY CLASSIC

STK

F

3 NJ P

Sat

7/12/2008

$625,000

E

WR HAUGHTON MEM

EC

F

FFA P

Sat

7/12/2008

$100,000

E

PERRETTI MATCHMAKER

STK

INV

M T

Wed

7/16/2008

$125,000

E

COUNTESS ADIOS

EC

DIV

2 F P

Thu

7/17/2008

$125,000

E

NIATROSS

EC

DIV

2 C P

Fri

7/18/2008

$350,000

E

DEL MILLER MEM

EC

F

3 F T

Fri

7/18/2008

$150,000

E

TARPORT HAP

EC

DIV

3 F P

Sat

7/19/2008

$1,000,000

E

MEADOWLANDS PACE

EC

F

3 P

Sat

7/19/2008

$350,000

E

STANLEY DANCER MEM

EC

F

3 T

Thu

7/31/2008

$400,000

E

M. ANNABELLE

EC

F

2 F T

Thu

7/31/2008

$400,000

E

PETER HAUGHTON MEM

EC

F

2 CG T

Fri

8/1/2008

$425,000

E

SWEETHEART

EC

F

2 F P

Fri

8/1/2008

$400,000

E

WOODROW WILSON

EC

F

2 P

Sat

8/2/2008

$350,000

E

MISTLETOE SHALEE

EC

F

3 F P

Sat

8/2/2008

$300,000

E

NAT RAY

INV


FFA T

Sat

8/2/2008

$275,000

E

OW HOLMES

EC

DIV

3 C P

Sat

8/2/2008

$350,000

E

US PACING CHAMPIONSHIP

EC

DIV

FFA P



2008 Meadowlands Standardbred Stakes Races:

from Standardbredcanada.ca

The Big M Releases 2008 Stakes Schedule

The $1.5 million Hambletonian on Saturday, August 2 and $1 million Meadowlands Pace on Saturday, July 19 headline more than $14 million in stakes scheduled for the 2008 harness meet at The Meadowlands.

The 133-date season kicks off January 2 and runs through August 2, 2008.

"From our popular Winter Series to the rich Championship Meet stakes of the summer, the Meadowlands continues to set the stage for the sport's brightest stars," said Director of Racing and Racing Secretary Tad Stockman. "We are committed to holding the premier events in harness racing and look forward to another spectacular season of racing."

The Hambletonian, paired with the $750,000 Hambletonian Oaks for fillies, is the sport's premier event for three-year-old trotters on August 2. Sophomore colts also have the $350,000 Stanley Dancer Memorial on July 19, while the fillies have the $350,000 Delvin Miller Memorial on July 18.

In addition to the track's signature event, the $1 million Meadowlands Pace, on July 19, three-year-old pacing colts are showcased in the $225,000 Berry's Creek on May 10, $500,000 Anthony Abbatiello New Jersey Classic on May 31, $62,000 Jersey Cup on June 28 and $275,000 Oliver Wendell Holmes on August 2.

The top older trotters and pacers have plenty of rich stakes opportunities before them. The season for veteran trotters begins with the three-week Su Mac Lad Series [April 18, 25 and $100,000 final on May 2], followed by the $180,000 Arthur J. Cutler Memorial on May 17, the $200,000 Titan Cup on June 28 and $300,000 Nat Ray Invitational on August 2.

The lengthy stakes season for older pacers begins with the three-week Presidential Series [January 12, 19 and $100,000 final January 26] and continues with the $225,000 Graduate on May 17, $625,000 William R. Haughton Memorial on July 12 and $350,000 US Pacing Championship on August 2.

Pacing mares have a variety of Winter Series engagements, as well as the $50,000 Strada Memorial on April 25, $100,000 Matriarch on May 11, $200,000 Lady Liberty on June 13 and $175,000 Golden Girls on August 2.

Their trotting counterparts have the $100,000 Perretti Matchmaker on July 12, as well as the first leg of the Miss Versatility on May 11. [The two subsequent legs of the Miss Versatility will be raced at Vernon and Tioga Downs, while the final will be contested at Delaware, Ohio during Little Brown Jug Week].

The premier events for three-year-old pacing fillies are the $200,000 Thomas D'Altrui Miss New Jersey on May 31, $85,000 Ladyship on June 27, $150,000 Tarport Hap on July 18 and $350,000 Mistletoe Shalee on August 2.

The two-year-old features begin with the Historic Series the week of June 25, the Countess Adios and Niatross the week of July 16 and the quartet of meet-ending stakes: $400,000 Merrie Annabelle [trotting fillies] and $400,000 Peter Haughton Memorial [trotting colts] on July 31, and $425,000 Sweetheart [pacing fillies] and $400,000 Woodrow Wilson [pacing colts] on August 1.

The 133-date meet runs January 2 through Saturday, August 2 with live racing four nights a week, Wednesday through Saturday, at 7 p.m.

A limited engagement of Sunday matinees will be added February 10 - March 16, with a 1:10 p.m. post time.

Special matinee cards will be run on Mother's Day (Sunday, May 11), Memorial Day (Monday, May 26), Father's Day (Sunday, June 15) and Hambletonian Day (Saturday, August 2). (The Meadowlands)

Friday, January 11, 2008

Standardbred Pacing Dominant Sire Lines

Back in the mid to late 1980s I did some work for Trot Magazine and Sulky, where I had a column called Trainor's Topics. When I published the Standardbred Sire Lines Chart in a two-page spread in Trot, most of the dominant pacing sire lines were from Meadow Skipper via his sons Albatross and Most Happy Fella. Some horsemen were concerned that the breed was concentrating too much on these two lines. Two decades later the Albatross line is not a major contender, but there are now three dominant sirelines among pacers, with several more viable, healthy outcross lines.

The three main lines in pacing are:



Abercrombie - Artsplace



No Nukes - Western Hanover



Cam Fella



In future posts we will look at the enduring speed and strength of these three lines, in addition to analysis of outcross and legacy line opportunities. On the trotting side, a lot of speed had been concentrating within Speedy Crown crosses, so we'll examine Valley Victory and Garland Lobell matchups and many of the smaller, still-viable trotting sire lines.



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Horses are beautiful animals

Horses are beautiful animals, and I must thank my late uncle Don for taking me to Fort Erie and other tracks as a kid. Also, my parents took me to New Brunswick and PEI every summer, where my mom and dad are from respectively, and my father used to take me horseback riding too.

Uncle Don was more into the flats, but I loved horseracing in general from my very first exposure to it; even the math of the betting appealed to me as a kid and as a teen. A trip to the track and some outdoors time and it can make for some idyllic memories. As one wag once commented, "A bad day at the track is still better than a good day anywhere else ..."

I remember being able to pick one two-dollar bet per race card. That was more money back then than now, so when I take my kids to the North America Cup, I let them each pick three two-dollar bets, and we have a grand time. It's usually just me and my dad and a friend of his, plus either or both of Rebecca and Aaron, but the horses are the fastest in the world, the very cream of the 3-year-old pacing crop. The card is filled out with about 7 or 8 other stakes races, so if you've never been, I suggest you consider attending the 2008 Pepsi North America Cup.


Be good,

Joe


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Sunday, January 6, 2008

Meadowlands Harness Racing Dates 2008

2008 Standardbred Racing schedule for The Meadowlands, January to August:

JAN 2008 Wednesdays through Saturdays, starting January 2 [18 dates]

FEB 2008 Wednesdays through Sundays, Dark February 3rd - [20 dates]

MAR 2008 Wednesday through Sundays - Dark March 23rd – (20 dates)

APR 2008 Wednesdays through Saturdays – (17 dates)

MAY 2008 Wednesdays through Saturdays plus Sunday May 11th & Monday, May 26 –(21 dates)

JUN 2008 Wednesdays through Saturdays - [17 dates] plus Sunday June 15th

JUL 2008 Wednesdays through Saturdays - [18 dates]

AUG 2008 Through August 2 - [2 dates]

Total Dates: 133


Meadowlands racing Info from: TheBigM Horseracing website

Saturday, January 5, 2008

Top Ten Contenders for Pepsi North America Cup 3-yr Old Pace

1: Somebeachsomewhere
2: Santanna Blue Chip
3: Lis Deo
4: Dali
5: Roberts Rage
6: Deuce Seelster
7: Moon Beam
8: Sand Shooter
9: Duneside Perch
10: Keystone Horatio

(Source of top 10 list: WoodbineEntertainment.com)


The First 2 favorites in detail:

Somebeachsomewhere (foaled 25 May 2005) is a champion standardbred racing horse. He was sired by Mach Three, out of Wheres The Beach, a Beach Towel mare. The colt was purchased as a yearling for $40 000, and is currently owned by Schooner Stables of Truro, Nova Scotia. Brent MacGrath has estimated that the colt has a market value between $4 million and $6 million.

2 Year Old Campaign

He began his racing career in the Battle of Waterloo at Grand River Raceway, where he went off as a second favorite in the eliminations, and won by a comfortable margin of three lengths. In the $300 000 final of the event, bettors took notice of him and won the race as a 4-5 post time favorite.

After proving the colt's ability on the small track, he moved onto the Metro Pace Eliminations at Mohawk Racetrack. Somebeachsomewhere was drawn into the same elimination as Dali, the fastest two-year-old colt of the year, up to that point. Somebeachsomewhere was able to hold off race favorite, Dali, and won the race by 3 1/2 lengths in 1:52.1. The next week was the $1 million final of the event, which Somebeachsomewhere won as the race favorite, in a world record 1:49.3.

To finish off his two-year-old campaign, Somebeachsomewhere raced in a pair of stakes races at Mohawk, the Champlain Stakes, and the Nasagaweya Stakes, which he won by comfortable margins.

Somebeachsomewhere earned $812 592 in his freshman year, with a perfect record of six wins in six starts.

Date Track Race Purse Finish Time Last 1/4 Odds Driver Trainer
15 Sep 2007 Mohawk D-Nasagaweya $145 300 1/2 1:51.4 28.2 *0.10 Paul MacDonell Jean Louis Arsenault
8 Sep 2007 Mohawk D-Champlain $115 884 1/3Q 1:51.0 26.0 *0.05 Paul MacDonell Jean Louis Arsenault
1 Sep 2007 Mohawk D-Metro $1 000 000 1/2 1:49.3 27.4 *1.75 Paul MacDonell Jean Louis Arsenault
25 Aug 2007 Mohawk D-Metro E $40 000 1/3H 1:52.1 27.4 5.15 Paul MacDonell Jean Louis Arsenault
6 Aug 2007 Grand River Battle of Waterloo $300 000 1/2Q 1:55.0 29.0 *0.85 Paul MacDonell Jean Louis Arsenault
30 Jul 2007 Grand River Battle of Waterloo E $24 000 1/3 1:54.2 28.0 1.60 Paul MacDonell Jean Louis Arsenault
8 Jul 2007 Truro QUAL $0 1/10 2:00.1 28.2 NB Brent MacGrath Brent MacGrath
1 Jul 2007 Truro QUAL $0 1/5Q 2:02.1 29.0 NB Brent MacGrath Brent MacGrath
24 Jun 2007 Truro QUAL $0 1/3Q 2:04.3 30.1 NB Brent MacGrath Brent MacGrath



Santanna Blue Chip (foaled 27 April 2005) is a champion standardbred racing horse. He was sired by Art Major, out of Mmissus Hanover, a Matts Scooter mare. The colt was purchased at the Harrisburg Yearling Sales for $75 000. He is currently owned by Carl Jamieson, Jeffrey Gillis, George Arthur Stable, and 1140545 Ontario Ltd. As of 24 November 2007, Santanna Blue Chip has earned $927 095 in his career.

The most notable of Santanna's achievements include wins of the 2007 Governor's Cup, and the 2007 Breeder's Crown.

Date Track Race Purse Finish Time Last 1/4 Odds Driver Trainer
24 Nov 2007 Meadowlands Breeder's Crown $650 000 1/NS 1:51.3 27.1 1.90 Jody Jamieson Carl Jamieson
27 Oct 2007 Woodbine D-Gov Cup F $731 700 1/2Q 1:53.1 29.1 4.15 Jody Jamieson Carl Jamieson
20 Oct 2007 Woodbine D-Gov Cup E $23 000 1/NK 1:51.4 27.0 3.35 Jody Jamieson Carl Jamieson
15 Sep 2007 Mohawk D-Nasagaweya $145 300 3/6H 1:53.0 28.4 8.20 Jody Jamieson Carl Jamieson
08 Sep 2007 Mohawk D-Champlain $115 884 2/3Q 1:51.3 26.0 8.75 Jody Jamieson Carl Jamieson
01 Sep 2007 Mohawk D-Metro F $1 000 000 3/3 1:50.1 28.1 15.80 Jody Jamieson Carl Jamieson
25 Aug 2007 Mohawk D-Metro E $40 000 2/1 1:52.3 28.2 10.10 Jody Jamieson Carl Jamieson
06 Aug 2007 Mohawk Dream Maker $56 200 1/1Q 1:53.4 27.2 *0.35 Jody Jamieson Carl Jamieson
23 Jul 2007 Mohawk Dream Maker $15 000 2/T 1:54.2 26.2 *0.50 Jody Jamieson Carl Jamieson
08 Jul 2007 Flamboro Downs Flmd Breeder $50 955 2/1H 1:56.1 29.0 *0.20 Paul MacDonell Carl Jamieson
29 Jun 2007 London 2Yr-C-Cond $7 500 1/2 1:59.1 28.1 4.60 Jody Jamieson Carl Jamieson
15 Jun 2007 Mohawk 2 YR-QUAL $0 4/9 1:59.2 28.1 NB Jody Jamieson Carl Jamieson

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Top Standardbred Sires of 2007 - Best Pacing and Trotting Stallions

On the pacing side, Camluck ($ 16,722,295) edged out Western Hanover ($ 14,954,162) for all ages top sire. Western Hanover passed away in 2007 and he will be sorely missed. He is the dominant sire in the Most Happy Fella - No Nukes line, while Camluck (together with Cam's Card Shark, Cambest +++) is a top producer of the Most Happy Fella - Cam Fella line. The 3rd major pacing stallion line is Abercrombie - Artsplace, represented by such top pacing sires as Art Major and Artiscape.

With regard to trotters, Andover Hall ($ 9,304,261) was the top trotting stallion in 2007, and he did it with just 154 starters!!! A close second was brother Angus Hall ($ 9,243,206) with 347 starters, and right there in third was Muscles Yankee ($ 8,186,588) producing big numbers from 243 starters. Muscles Yankee was also the top sire of two-year-old trotters.

Leading Money Winning Standardbred Sires in 2007

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