by Michael Chamberlain, Tioga Downs Publicity
You Rock My World (Muscle Mass-Disco Inferno) has apparently
found the right form in 2014. After winning just one of nineteen starts in
2013, You Rock My World (Jim Morrill Jr.) not only picked up win number nine in
eighteen starts this year, he set a track record at Tioga Downs in winning the
$43,200 Final of the Morrisville College Trotting Series for 3-5 Year Old
Colts. The final time of 1:53.1 broke the former track record for 4-year-old
geldings by a second and two-fifths. You Rock My World moved to the front
before the field made it to the first turn. He then proceeded to set strong
fractions of 27.4 for the quarter, 55.4 for the half, and 1:23.3 for
three-quarters. Deacons Valley (Ross Wolfenden) was really the only other horse
to stay anywhere near the leader during the race, getting to within a length
before eventually fading to finish fourth after such a strenuous effort. You
Rock My World ended up winning by an impressive margin of six lengths. Stitch
In Time (Tyler Buter) rallied to finish second and Cal Chips Brother (Corey
Braden) also finished nicely to get third. The complete order of finish was:
You Rock My World, Stitch In Time, Cal Chips Brother, Deacons Valley, BZ Glide,
Spaced Out, Sweet Ben, Jaipur, and Winwood Scout. You Rock My World is owned by
John Smiel of Rutland, Vermont and trained by Heidi Rohr.
3-year-old trotting fillies headline a 15-race program at
Tioga Downs on Monday night. The New York Sire Stakes will take place with two
divisions, carded as the seventh and ninth races, on the program. Both
divisions offer purses of $62,400. In the seventh race, Glowngold is the 3-1
morning-line favorite after Sire Stakes victories at Vernon Downs and Buffalo
Raceway recently. In the ninth race, Market Rally is a slight 2-1 morning-line
favorite after a Sire Stakes win at Buffalo, while Crediama, the Empire
Breeders' Classic winner at Vernon, is second choice at 5-2. Post time at Tioga
Downs on Monday night is 6:15pm.
