East Rutherford, NJ - The Thursday, February 23 card opens with a pair
of interesting three-year-old fillies from the Joe Holloway barn
competing in a Non-Winners pacing class as the evening's first race.
Joe has developed
some truly great mares including Shebestingin, the fastest female Standardbred
ever, who seared around The Red Mile in 1:47 a few years ago along with
multiple World Champion She's A Great Lady and the 2015 Dan Patch award winning
Divine Caroline.
Led by the great triple
Breeders Crown winning World Champion Jenna's Beach Boy ($1.9
million), horses trained by Holloway have earned more than $30 million
over his illustrious career.
Make no mistake,
Thefoolalwaysrocks and Twist Of Fate have a mountain to climb to reach that
lofty perch but both have the pedigree and are gaining experience over the
winter.
Thefoolalwaysrocks is a
homebred owned by Roll The Dice Stable, Joe Hurley's Nom d'Course.
She is by successful sire Always A Virgin who was campaigned by the same
connections. This filly won a schooling race last year in 1:56.4 but
hasn't raced much and the last couple have done little to impress.
Twist Of Fate is an Art
Major owned by a partnership that includes two long time Holloway
patrons who shared in the great Shebestingin, Marty Granoff's Val D'or
Farms and Ted Gewertz, along with John Travis as Four J's Stable, LLC. She's
coming in on a three race winning streak including a career best 1:54.1 at
Dover last month and is clearly on the right track.
The fillies will race
uncoupled due to bona-fide separate ownership per the NJRC.
Races 7 - 9 will again
be carried live on the SNY network with Justin Horowitz
in the host chair.
Post time is 7:15 p.m.
