Last year around this time trainer Danny Gill plunked down
$4000 and saved a trotter by the name of Rose Run Nash from a life of pulling
an Amish buggy. Yesterday,( August 20) at Monticello Raceway Rose Run
Nash defeated a field of $15,000 claimers in a time of 1:57.3 and scored his 16th
victory of the season which makes him the trotter with the most wins in
North America in 2014.
As he usually does after one of his horses win a race, Gill-
and his wife Brenna- come from the paddock to the winner’s circle via a golf
cart to take picture with his victorious pupil.
Even before he got there (to the winners circle) he was
waving and shouting, “That was his 16th win and now we are four in
front” referring to having four more wins than the three runners-up.
He and Brenna ran to congratulate driver Jimmy Marohn, Jr.
and posed for the photograph. After he calmed down Gill was asked about Rose
Run Nash, a 5-year-old altered son of Trainforthefuture.
“I was racing a horse at Pocono (Downs) one night last year
and someone there told me about a trotter that has some class but was heading
to the Amish country,” Gill related. “So I went to the farm where the horse was
awaiting a trip to the Lancaster-area and I liked what I saw so we gave the
4-large they were asking for him. I’d like to buy 10 more just like him”
Rose Run Nash breezed to a new lifetime mark of 1:57.3 when
driver Jimmy Marohn, Jr. set sails from the pole position and the pair raced
unchallenged the entire mile trotting through fractions of :28.2, :58.1, and
1:28 with his tail out straight and flying in the wind before finishing some
three lengths ahead of Pacific Margaux and driver Johnny Plutino.
“Being on the front-end made it easy for me because he’s a
big horse and with his tail in my face all the way I could hardly see
where I was going half the time,” Marohn said smiling with his inimitable
tongue in cheek expression..
“Not really, Danny’s got him (Rose Run Nash) in top form and
he’s real sharp right now” and then he walked back his previous statement
when he added, “I had no problem seeing where I was going.”
It was Rose Run Nash’s second consecutive victory and
fourth in his last five starts..
Now the property of Gill’s main patron, Edward Hall, Rose
Run Nash paid $3.50 for win.
