Kurt
Sugg scored the 2,000th win of his driving career while driving RUA
Looker in Northfield Park’s 12th race on Tuesday evening. They went off as the 2/5 betting choice and
took the lead right off the gate. The pair
never had an anxious moment at any point in the mile and won by 1¼ length, stopping
the clock in 2:01.4. Sugg also co-owns
and trains the ten-year-old son of Ilookelikemymom. This win marks the 6th victory of
2012 and the 49th career victory for RUA Looker.
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| Kurt Sugg winning his 2,000th race with RUA Looker (Photo courtesy of Jeff Zamaiko) |
Sugg’s
richest win came in 2006 when he drove Dunkster to victory in the $105,000
Dygert at Hawthorne. Kurt’s fastest win
was timed in 1:52.1 aboard Gordie How at The Delaware County Fair.
The 42-year-old Sugg remembers his first win behind Mountain
Director at the Hancock County Fair in Findlay, Ohio when he was a mere
16-years old. He started driving in
1986, and the 2,000th win increased his driver purse earnings to in
excess of $8,000,000.
After just missing in two other races on the evening, Kurt
commented: “I am really happy to have reached 2,000 wins, and it feels really
good to have done it with my own horse.”
