East Rutherford, NJ - Breakfast With The Babies was held on a
picture-perfect Friday morning with moderate temperatures, clear skies and a
slight cross breeze as the races began at 9:30am.
World Champion Mission Brief came onto the track
for her qualifying race this morning equipped with trotting hopples and went a
flat mile in 1:54.3. Gingras put her on the lead and faced pressure in the 27.4
second quarter from stablemate I’m So Fancy, put that one in behind her then
drifted out some in the stretch while still a bit tentative through the 28.4
last quarter.
Hustle
Heart opened the two-year-old races 1:59.3 winner for Andy & Julie Miller.
The Marvin Katz/Al Libfeld homebred Credit Winner from their Hambo Oaks winner
Creamy Mimi led all the way to hold $260,000 Lexington purchase Earn Your Wings
safe with a 29.4 final quarter.
Scott Zeron drove a sharp looking Donato Hanover
filly named Side Bet Hanover to a come from behind 1:58.4 win for trainer Jonas
Czernyson this morning. She closed well to be fourth in her initial outing last
week and gobbled up the ground into a 29.1 final quarter to run down Keep It
Classy. SRF Stable paid $55,000 for her at the Standardbred Horse Sale (SHS) at
Harrisburg last fall.
The $240,000 Lexington Select Yearling Sale
(LSYS) graduate Winter Harbor was a 1:59 winner off a perfect steer by Zeron.
The Muscle Hill colt found early pocket position from the outside and had
plenty when called upon through the 29.2 closing quarter to a clear win over
Armbro Hall with $320,000 LSYS purchase The Perfect Lindy closing to be third.
The winner is trained by Tony Alagna for Brittany Farms, John Cancelliere,
Little E and Winter Harbor Partners.
Promise Delivered impressed with both his speed
and maneuverability in the fourth race as driver Tim Tetrick had to change
course abruptly to avoid a breaker on the last turn, yet the colt continued his
momentum to edge past Curious De Vie for a 1:58.2/28.4 win. He’s a Muscle Hill
$50,000 (SHS) buy for trainer Staffan Lind and owners Bender Sweden, Acadia
Farms and Elmer Fannin.
The pacing races began with Mario Mazza’s A List
Hanover cut the mile for Andy Miller and won in 1:56.1, holding a late rallying
Penpal off with a 28.2 last quarter. Julie Miller trains the Somebeachsomewhere
filly that was a $160,000 Harrisburg purchase by Mr. Mazza.
Zeron and Alagna combined for another win with
the nice Vintage Master filly Vintage Babe. She led all the way through
comfortable fractions then sprinted home in 28 flat for the “W” over selfie and
a closing Call Me Queen Be. Tony and Jodi Siamis ponied up $25,000 at LSYS for
the winner.
It was Settlemoir squared in the seventh with
Jason Settlemoir the Meadowlands GM in for the call of the race which was won
by Settlemoir the Western Ideal pacing colt. Driven by trainer Jimmy Takter,
Settlemoir was prominent throughout, posting all the fractions then digging in
gamely to hold off a wave of closers in the 27.4 final quarter of the 1:55.2
mile. Christina Takter, Herb Liverman and the Fieldings are the proud owners of
the $105,000 Lexington buy.
Dr J Hanover was a winner today for Alagna and
Tetrick, cutting the mile and closing out the 1:55 score with a 28.1 final
quarter over Sunken Treasure with Jann And Dean gaining late for third. Dr J
was a big ticket yearling with Brittany Farms, Marvin Katz, John Cancelliere
and the Dr J Partners parting with $300,000 to buy him at Harrisburg then
naming the Somebeachsomewhere colt for Dr Jablonsky from Hanover Shoe Farms.
The ninth saw three colts flash under the wire
in a line with Cruise Patrol splitting Artmagic and Uncle Nicky for the
1:56.1/27.3 record. Cruise Patrol is a $60,000 LSYS Bettors Delight colt
trained and driven by Jimmy Takter for owners wife Christina, Fielding,
Fielding and RAW Equine.
Takter
collected another win with Badstormanyport, driven by Yannick Gingras to a 1:55
flat record. Gingras placed him in a pocket early, following through a 59 half
and 1:27.1 three quarters and the Somebeach colt went by the leader willingly
when asked. Tom Hill (the horse) closed nicely to be second. The winner was a
$90,000 SHS yearling and is owned by the partnership of Takter, Fielding,
Sbrocco and J&T Silva Stable.
