By Ken Weingartner
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – August 5, 2017-- You Know You Do overtook
stablemate Samo Different Day in the stretch to win Saturday’s $360,650 Peter
Haughton Memorial Stakes for 2-year-old male trotters in 1:54.2, the fourth
race at the Meadowlands Racetrack.
Samo Different Day held on for second in a photo over Farsetti
Hanover. The margin of victory was two and a quarter lengths.
You Know You Do, driven by Yannick Gingras, started a first-over
bid on the backstretch against fraction-setting Samo Different Day, who led the
field to the quarter in 28, half in 56.1 and three-quarters in 1:25.3, and was
alongside the leader as the field exited the final turn. He won for the third
time in four races for trainer Jimmy Takter.
The colt was a $350,000 purchase at the Standardbred Horse Sale.
He is owned by Howard Taylor, Order By Stable, Bud Hatfield, and the
partnership of Marvin Katz, Al Libfeld, and Sam Goldband.
“We put together a group and went after him vigorously,” Katz
said. “We have 80 to 90 percent fillies, 10 percent colts. (But) he was very,
very special. We’ll look for colts here and there that we think could be
exceptional. It’s really a policy of pursuing excellence and we thought he
could fit that category.”
You Know You Do, sent off as the 3-2 favorite, paid $5.00, $3.00
$3.00 to win. He pushed his career earnings to $206,932.
Samo Different Day returned $4.60,
$3.20. Farsetti Hanover in third paid $8.40.
