East Rutherford, NJ - A field of seven pacing fillies including
the darling of the morning trials Rainbow Room, comprise the first two-year-old
race of the 2017 season as race three on Friday at The Meadowlands.
Rainbow Room has impressed
onlookers and delighted her connections with a pair of effortless
wins in Meadowlands Baby Races. Her first appearance was on June 3
where she toured the oval in the day's fastest of 1:55 and social media lit up
with superlatives. She returned Saturday past with a similar effort, closing
out the 1:55.2 win with a 26.4 final quarter under no encouragement from
driver David Miller.
By Somebeachsomewhere from Rainbow
Blue, both World Champions and Horse of the Year following their respective
three-year-old season, Rainbow Room clearly possesses the championship gene.
She was bred by Vieux Carre Farms and Steve Jones and was a $100,000
purchase from the 2016 Lexington Selected Yearling Sale by Crawford Farms, Val
D'Or Farms and Ted Gewertz who placed her with trainer Joe Holloway.
Holloway has trained plenty of
champions including some of the sport's best filly pacers including the
fastest ever in Shebestingin. Joe recognized early on that Rainbow
Room had the potential to follow in that tradition and now sets her on that course.
The competition includes several
others who have impressed in morning trials including KJ'S Bekah who was a good
second to Rainbow Room on June 17 and has gone well in both of her qualifiers.
The American Ideal lass was plucked from the Lexington sale by Kenny Jacobs for
$140,000 and is trained by Linda Toscano. Tim Tetrick has the drive.
All On Top Hanover is from the
first crop of Betterthancheddar and has been an easy winner in her pair of
qualifying efforts for trainer Erv Miller and driver Marcus Miller. She was a
bargain buy from last year's Goshen Yearling Sale, costing Erv and partners Ron
Michelon & GT Golemes a mere $14,000.
It's a ten race program that gets
underway at 7:15 p.m.
