Breeders Crown 2010; Winning Sires prove up Standardbred stallion lines

I am certain that ananlysis of place and show finishers would expand the stalion pool and deepen understanding of current trends, however taking a quick look at the winners shows some powerful lines continuing on and some newer branches emerging. To fully understand which sire lines top broodmare owners are leaning to, evaluate the success of two and three year olds in various sires stakes programs and in Breeders Crown events, and you will know what buyers are looking for, in terms of pedigree and top line prowess, at standardbred yearling sales like the upcoming 2010 Harrisburg Standardbred Yearling sale, November 8th to 13th.

$250,000 Breeders Crown Mare Trot - Jailhouse Jesse

Daughter Buck I St. Pat continued her dominance and making her an incredibly valuable broodmare. A Donerail son, Jailhouse Jesse is a grandson of the game-changing sire Valley Victory.


$600,000 Breeders Crown Open Trot - Enjoy Lavec

The seven year old son Enough Talk proved that his record setting miles in 2009 were no fluke. Like Chip Chip Hooray and Dream Vacation, Enjoy Lavec is a son of the formidable outcross trotting stallion (Speedster line via Arnie Almahurst and Arndon) Pine Chip.


$600,000 Breeders Crown Two-Year-Old Filly Trot - Conway Hall

I was in a minority position picking Martiniontherocks to win this, however her Canadian connections and her solid Garland Lobell top line helped bolster the impression she was still improving and could come up big.


$500,000 Breeders Crown Three-Year-Old Colt Trot - Revenue

If he can continue his winning ways, Break The Bank K may have an opportunity to become a valued outcross sire, being a son of European trotting stallion Revenue, the only non-Hambletonian line sire to have succeeded at the highest levels of trotting in recent decades (pacing is 100% Hambletonian line). Revenue wrapped up his duties at Perretti in NJ and is off to Sweden for 2011.


$600,000 Breeders Crown Two-Year-Old Filly Pace - Bettors Delight

See You At Peelers is just another jewel in the crown of Bettors Delight, the Cams Card Shark son who verifies nightly that Cam Fella line colts are still on the prowl and the Shark-oriented variety is indeed a bettor's delight.


$600,000 Breeders Crown Two-Year-Old Colt Trot - Yankee Glide

Manofmanymissions drew into the final because of a late scratch, and did his sire Yankee Glide proud. A super-successful son of Valley Victory, Yankee Glide is perhaps succeeded only by another Valley Victory son, Muscles Yankee.


$600,000 Breeders Crown Two-Year-Old Colt Pace - Western Ideal

Big Jim showed us that Rocknroll Hanover's sire Western Ideal can still bring it himself, and that Western Hanover line colts remain the overall dominant force in two and three year old stakes racing.









$500,000 Breeders Crown Three-Year-Old Filly Trot - Credit Winner

Impressive Kemp upset the favourites and improved her position in the breeding shed. As a daughter of Credit Winner, she will be in demand as a Breeders Crown winning scion of the Super Bowl - American Winner line. This line is alive and well in the form of Crazed, Herecomesherbie and the impressive Chocolatier.


$300,000 Breeders Crown Mare Pace - Camluck

Dreamfair Eternal has dominated Mohawk Raceway and her prowess continued Stateside. A daughter of the Cam Fella son and inestimable foundation sire Camluck, she will be prized as a broodmare when it's time to hang up the sulky.



$500,000 Breeders Crown Three-Year-Old Filly Pace - Rocknroll Hanover

Put On A Show is no fluke and continues to be one of the fastest most reliable fillies ever, illustrating again that the Rocknroll Hanover (Western Ideal, out of goddess mare Rich N Elegant, by Direct Scooter) trunk of Western Hanover's multiplicity of quality descendants is the strongest wood.







$500,000 Breeders Crown Open Pace - Western Hanover

Rather than face Rock N Roll Heaven in the Three year Old Pace, Won The West's connections decided to pit him against the older horses and the ambit paid off, with the Western Hanover son tripping the wire in 1.49 flat. From the second-last crop of Western Hanover, Won The West may race some more yet will likely find a place at stud himself sometime soon. Western Hanover is the most dominant son of the Most Happy Fella line stallion No Nukes.





$500,000 Breeders Crown Three-Year-Old Colt Pace - Rocknroll Hanover

Rock N Roll Heaven lived up to form and continued his winning ways in the prestigious Breeders Crown final for 3 year old colt pacers, keeping the Western Hanover-Western Ideal - Rocknroll Hanover sire line in the limelight.

The racing champion also has the top 3 pacing sires up close, Western Hanover on top and Artsplace and Cam Fella via dam Artistic Vision.






Many happy returns,


Joe Trainor
HarnessHorses.info

2010 Breeders Crown 3YO Colt Pace eliminations

Video Breeder Crown 3YO Colts and Geldings Pace 2010 elimination 1:

One More Laugh wins first Breeders Crown elim in 1:50




Video Breeder Crown 3YO Colts and Geldings Pace 2010 elimination 2:

Rocknroll Heaven takes charge in 2nd elimination, winning in 1.49.1!




This sets up an interesting duel in the final: Outcross sire McArdle's son One More Laugh against the Western Hanover grandson / Rocknroll Hanover son Rocknroll Heaven, with the latter likely to be about an even money favourite.

Breeders Crown Open Pace, Open Trot and Mare Trot PP

The fastest older pacers and trotters will be part of the $6 million Breeders Crown 12-race final program at Mohegan at Pocono Downs on Saturday Oct. 9 with a special early post time of 5:00 p.m.


Open Pace:

$500,000 Breeders Crown Open Pace

Breeders Crown Open Pace draw, with listed drivers and trainers:

1. Shark Gesture, George Brennan, Larry Remmen
2. Foiled Again, Yannick Gingras, Ron Burke
3. Bettor Sweet, Brian Sears, Tom Cancelliere
4. Hypnotic Blue Chip, Jody Jamieson, Kevin McDermott
5. Won The West, David Miller, Ron Burke
6. Lisagain, Andy Miller, Erv Miller
7. Clear Vision, Ron Pierce, Richard “Nifty” Norman
8. Blueridge Western, Daniel Dube, Kevin McDermot



Open Trot:

The Breeders Crown $600,000 Open Trot, with assigned drivers:

1. Hot Shot Blue Chip, David Miller
2. Slave Dream, John Campbell
3. Neighsay Hanover, Tim Tetrick
4. Define The World, Paul Macdonell
5. Enough Talk, Ron Pierce
6. Lucky Jim, Andy Miller
7. Triumphant Caviar, Luc Ouellette
8. All Cantab Trevor Ritchie
9. Lanson, Mike Lachance


Mare Trot:

Breeders Crown $250,000 Mare Trot:

1. Windsong Soprano, Ron Pierce
2. Elusive Desire, John Campbell
3. Yursa Hanover Daniel Dube
4. Southwind Wasabi, Yannick Gingras
5. Autumn Escapade, David Miller
6. Jersey As; George Brennan
7. Buck I St Pat, Tim Tetrick

NHL's Brad Richards donates $500,000 to Charlottetown PEI hospital

My uncle Wes "Bucko" Trainor was the first or second PEI-born NHL player, and the tradition has been carried on well by Forbes Kennedy, Erroll Thompson, Rick Vaive, Billy and Bobby Macmillan, Al McAdam, Gerard Gallant, and in recent years by Steve Ott and Stanley Cup (Tampa Bay) winner Brad Richards.

Now with the National Hockey League's Dallas Stars, Brad has announced a $500,000 donation to Charlottetown's Queen Elizabeth Hospital. He donated the money in memory of Jamie Reynolds, a cousin of Richards who died of brain cancer in Charlottetown in 1989 at age seven. Richards was nine at the time, and the two were close.

"To see your best friend pass away with such a tragic thing, he's always remembered that and he's got a big heart," Glen Richards, Brad's father, told CBC News.

The donation will be set aside as an endowment fund, and the earnings will be utilized to purchase medical equipment required for treating children with chronic or serious illnesses.

Leafs "C" Dion Phaneuf endorses PEI harness racing

In an interview with Dan Loiselle at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, the Maple Leafs new captain had nothing but praise for PEI's vibrant and growing standardbred breeding and racing industry.

Phaneuf said that he spends a good deal of his offseason on PEI, and that means time at some of the harness racing industry's most historic locations.

"I go to the races quite a bit actually there (PEI) with my grandfather when he's back on the island," explained Phaneuf, who also stated that he has attended the heralded Gold Cup and Saucer.

"It's a fun night out to see them (the horses) race. I go to both tracks there, Summerside and Charlottetown. I've been to the big races there, too. They do a great job down there. They have a good track in Charlottetown. There's good racing down there."


Link to Standardbred Canada article on Dion Phaneuf and harness racing


Prince Edward Island links:

New Glasgow PEI Lobster Suppers

CDP Horse Racing / Red Shores Casino PEI

Summerside Raceway PEI

Aiden's Deep Sea PEI Fishing Charters

Cavendish Beach PEI

Rocknroll Hanover daughter Put On A Show goes 149.4 to win Nadia Lobell

Put On A Show (Rocknroll Hanover - Steinams Place, by Artsplace) did just that at the Red Mile, stopping the Teletimer in a career-best 1.49.4! Helmed by superstar Time Tetrick, Put On A Show held off a stretch challenge from always dangerous Brian Sears and second-place finisher Dancinwiththestarz, while Panagler (Driven by the legendary John Campbell) finished third.

Watch online video of Put On A Show winning Nadia Lobell at Red Mile:



See how Put On A Show's Western Hanover and Artsplace bloodlines stack up among top pacing modern sire limes. Even if Beach's Book is full and closed, there could always be room made for a princess like this star; her pedigree begs for the top out cross stallion.

2010 Canadian Yearling Sale - Colts and Fillies under $2,000

First let's look at all the standardbred pacers and trotters that just sold for $2,000 or under at the Flamboro sale yesterday and today. In a future post we'll isolate five as possible BEST BUYS of the sale.

Here are the lesser lights of the sale, wherein some gems are sure to be found.

1. L H FANNYMAE B, f, 1, Modern Art - Fan For Life
Consigned by: Solo Farms, Agent
Purchased by: 9106 9369 Quebec Inc, Ripon, QC 2,000


9. OAKLEA UMPIRE Br, c, 1, Striking Sahbra - Oaklea Nattie
Consigned by: Oaklea Farm Inc
Purchased by: Antonio Decobellis, Saint-leonard, QC 2,000


10. ACE DEUCE B, f, 1, Armbro Deuce - One Eyed Dragon
Consigned by: Pedigree Farm, Agent
Purchased by: Bartol Jarnevic, Proton Station, ON 2,000


22. RED MIST B, c, 1, E Dees Cam - Crimson Mist
Consigned by: Winbak Farm
Purchased by: George L Robinson, Windsor, ON 2,000


25. MISTRESS Br, f, 1, Amigo Hall - Fathers Daughters
Consigned by: Pedigree Farm
Purchased by: 9106 9369 Quebec Inc, Ripon, QC 2,000


198. WESTERN DEUCE B, c, 1, Armbro Deuce - Lanai
Consigned by: Pedigree Farm
Purchased by: Claude Larose, L'ange Gardien, QC 2,000



239. LADY E B, f, 1, E Dees Cam - Jaguars Lady
Consigned by: Winbak Farm
Purchased by: Deborah Koot, Woodstock, ON 1,800



270. TWO STEP TURN B, f, 1, Armbro Deuce - Turn For The Best
Consigned by: Winbak Farm
Purchased by: Blake C Macintosh, Cambridge, ON 1,800



89. GAYLORD FORKER B, c, 1, Southfork - B Cor Raplica
Consigned by: Len & Janice Annett, Agent
Purchased by: Janice L Annett, Wyoming, ON 1,800



308. BRIGHTSIDE STORMIN B, f, 1, Tell All - Stormin Fever
Consigned by: Dr W Terry Fried
Purchased by: W Terry Fried, Bright, ON 1,700



279. ST LADS VIXEN Br, f, 1, Lis Mara - Warrawee Cammy
Consigned by: ST Lads Farm
Purchased by: Eric C Wilson, Saint John, NB 1,700



259. WRATH OF RUTHIE B, f, 1, Modern Art - Gowen Away
Consigned by: Preferred Equine Mkt Inc, Agent
Purchased by: Terry R Rideout, Agent, Campbellville, ON 1,700



145. ZOLA Ch, f, 1, Mr Lavec - R Zoe
Consigned by: ST Lads Farm
Purchased by: James P Zeron, Oxford Mills, ON 1,700



212. VICTORYDAZE WILWIN B, c, 1, Whosurboy - Jenny Get Lucky
Consigned by: Solo Farms, Agent
Purchased by: David C Willitts, Simcoe, ON 1,600



47. M G JESSIE B, f, 1, Stonebridge Regal - Dynasty G F
Consigned by: Preferred Equine Mkt Inc, Agent
Purchased by: Avni Abdulov, London, ON 1,500



54. KITTY MILLIONS B, f, 1, Million Dollar Cam - Kitty Hawk Killean
Consigned by: High Stakes Inc, Agent
Purchased by: Robert A Brown, Lindsay, ON 1,500



129. WINDSUN FIREBALL B, c, 1, Thunder Road - Windsun Borgata
Consigned by: Preferred Equine Mkt Inc, Agent
Purchased by: William J Pendleton, Orton, ON 1,500



162. SHALOMAR HOUDINI B, c, 1, P Forty Seven - Minoan Lass
Consigned by: Century Spring Farms, Agent
Purchased by: Michael Arndt, Bluevale, ON 1,200



17. M G JOLLY B, f, 1, Armbro Deuce - Velvet Art
Consigned by: Preferred Equine Mkt Inc, Agent
Purchased by: John Kennedy, Hanover, ON 1,000




297. SHALOMAR HEZAHARRY Ch, c, 1, Sir Luck - Almahurst Yankee
Consigned by: Century Spring Farms, Agent
Purchased by: Rusty C Morgan, Norwich, ON 500