MANALAPAN,
NJ – September 25, 2013 – Trainer and co-owner Chris Ryder is bringing a lot of
Muscle to the $66,500 Harold Dancer Trot on Friday, September 27, 2013 at
Freehold Raceway.
Ryder
will send out both Muscle On In and Well Built in the stakes for two-year-old
New Jersey-sired trotters. Both colts are by first year sire Muscle Hill.
The
entry is rated 5-2 in the morning line in race seven.
A
break at the start cost Muscle On In any hope in his last start, the $25,000
New Jersey Sire Stakes – Green Acres Final on September 20. The victory
in that race went to Choco Sun who nosed out Chocolate Day, both by
Chocolatier. Those two trotters are also in the Harold Dancer.
Chocolate Day is the 7-2 second choice in the morning line from post six and
Choco Sun is listed at 9-2 from post eight.
While
Daniel Dube gets the call on Muscle On In from the rail, Ryder will take the
lines on Well Built from post seven.
Muscle
On In comes into the Harold Dancer with two wins in eight starts for earnings
of $19,415. He took his mark of 1:58.3 in a $20,000 Arden division at the
Meadows.
A
$15,000 Harrisburg Sale purchase, he races for the partnership of Ryder, Robert
Mondillo of Delaware, OH and Max Wernick of New City, NY.
Entrymate
Well Built, owned by Ryder and Mondillo, has two seconds in six starts, banking
$11,375. He was a $30,000 Lexington Selected Sale acquisition.
The
stakes record for the Harold Dancer, which is sponsored by the Standardbred
Breeders & Owners Association of New Jersey, is 1:59, established in 2010
by Chapter Seven.
The
field for the $66,500 Harold Dancer Trot:
HD
# POST
HORSE
SIRE
DRIVER
TRAINER
ML
1
1 Muscle On
It Muscle
Hill
Daniel
Dube
Chris Ryder
5-2
1A
7 Well
Built
Muscle Hill
Chris
Ryder
Chris
Ryder
5-2
2
2 Celebrity
Spitfire Muscles Yankee Eric
Abbatiello
Susanne Strandqvist 6-1
3
3
Resolve
Muscle Hill
Jim Pantaleano Roman
Lopez
8-1
4
4 Hot
Type
Chocolatier
DR
Ackerman
DR
Ackerman
5-1
5
5 Skates N
Plates
Revenue
Jim Marshall
III Paul
Reid
10-1
6
6 Chocolate
Day
Chocolatier
Marcus Johansson Julie
Miller
7-2
7
8 Choco
Sun
Chocolatier
Jim
Meittinis
Orjan Torstensson 9-2
In
other stakes action on Friday, two $7,000 divisions of the New Jersey Sire
Stakes – Green Acres will be contested prior to the betting card.
In
the first event, the third leg for two-year-old trotting fillies, drew a field
of five, including first leg winner Shelikescandy by Chocolatier and second leg
winner Worldrecordsweeper by Muscles Yankee.
The
second non-wagering stakes is the first leg for three-year-old trotting colts
and geldings with five entrants, including $38,500 Charles Smith runner up
Dagget by Chocolatier.
The
$25,000 Green Acres Final for three-year-old pacing fillies is the featured
seventh race on Thursday, September 26, 2013.
The
6-5 morning line favorite is the Ross Croghan trainee Certified Ideal by
Western Ideal who will be driven by Jim Pantaleano from post two.
Four
of the finalists are by Western Ideal, two by Cam’s Card Shark and one by
Rocknroll Hanover.
Prior
to the Thursday card, five three-year-old trotting fillies will face off in the
second round of the Green Acres.
