Johny
Rock [$5.00, $3.60, $2.80], with Tim Tetrick driving, paced a career best
1:51.1 in the sixth race. The John Butenschoen trainee has never been
worse than second in six career starts.
Rocknmyjeans
[$14.20, $7.80] was second, and it was two and a half lengths to Wake Up Peter
[$5.40] in third as sons of Rocknroll Hanover took the top three spots.
A
$60,000 Lexington Selected Sale purchase, Johny Rock has earned $119,691 for
the partnership of William Wiswell of Elkhorn, WI; Jean Goehlen of Aurora, IL
and Eugene Schick of Elgin, IL.
Corky
led the sweep of sons of Muscles Yankee in the $150,000 New Jersey Sire Stakes
Final for two-year-old trotting colts and geldings, the first race.
When
Deadliest Catch by Chocolatier, the only non-Muscles Yankee finalist in the
field of six, broke stride in the first turn, 1-5 Corky [$2.40, $2.20, $2.10]
coasted to a three-length victory over King Muscles [$5.60, $3.80] in
1:57.3. It was three and a quarter lengths to Amalfi Coast [$5.00] in
third.
Corky,
driven by David Miller and trained by Jimmy Takter, picked up his third win
with four seconds in seven starts. He won all of his New Jersey Sire
Stakes starts and was second best by a neck in the Peter Haughton Memorial.
A
$100,000 Lexington Selected Sale purchase, Corky now has a bankroll of $227,297
for owners Christina Takter of East Windsor, NJ and brothers Jim and John
Fielding of Toronto, ON.
Southwind
Cocoa [$22.60, $9.60, $5.20] followed a third over path and peeled out
five-wide in the stretch to nip Time To Kill [$12.20, $5.80] by a nose and
Shared Past [$3.00] by a neck in a three-horse photo finish in the $150,000 New
Jersey Sire Stakes Final for two-year-old trotting fillies, the third race.
Southwind
Cocoa, driven by Tim Tetrick, covered the mile in 1:55.3, equaling the stakes
record set by Act Of Grace on July 18, 1995.
The
Chocolatier filly, a $6,000 Lexington Selected Sale purchase, is from the same
team of trainer Linda Toscano and owner Richard Gutnick of Blue Bell, PA, that
combined to win this year’s Hambletonian with Market Share and the Nat Ray with
Chapter Seven.
Time
To Kill is by Muscles Yankee and Shared Past is a daughter of
Chocolatier.
Even-money
favorite Authorize [$4.00, $3.00, $2.40] swept past Jerseylicious [$3.60,
$3.40], tossing in a final quarter of 25,4, to win the $150,000 New Jersey Sire
Stakes Final for two-year-old pacing fillies, the fifth race, by half a length
in 1:52.3. It was three quarters of a length back to Miss Lauren [$5.40]
in third.
Authorize,
driven by Brian Sears and trained by Tony Alagna, extended her winning streak
to four. Bred and owned by Brittany Farms of Versailles, KY and the
Estate of Brian Monieson of Northbrook, IL, has finished first or second in
five of seven starts and banked $108,000.
Authorize
and Jerseylicious are both daughters of Western Ideal while Miss Lauren is by
Cam’s Card Shark.
In
other stakes action, WJ Donovan’s Maven, the 1-2 favorite, redeemed herself
from a miscue in the Hambletonian Oaks to breeze to a three and a half-length
victory over Valdonna in the $191,500 Moni Maker for three-year-old trotting
fillies. The Jonas Czernyson trainee, driven by Yannick Gingras, trotted
the mile in 1:52.3.
The
complexion of the $218,850 Golden Girls for pacing mares changed at the start
when 8-5 favorite and Lady Liberty winner Put On A Show broke at the start and
finished last.
Rebeka
Bayama, driven by Sylvain Filion and trained by Pat Lachance, battled in the
stretch for a half-length victory over Drop The Ball in 1:49 flat. Ginger
And Fred was a length and three-quarters back in third.
In
the $5,500 Racing Under Saddle exhibition race, Tina Duer rode Chinese Cuisine
to a five and three-quarter length victory over Helene Gregory aboard Armbro
Doyle. It was eight and a quarter lengths back to Dream Kid, ridden by
Jennifer Connor, in third. The mile was trotted in 2:00.2.
Chinese
Cuisine, trained by John Duer, is a four-year-old gelding son of Revenue owned
and bred by Peninsula Farm of Lexington, KY.
