By Ray Cotolo, for The Red Mile
LEXINGTON,
KY— Peter Haughton-winner You Know You Do will start from post one in the first
of five divisions of the $366,000 Bluegrass Two-Year-Old Colt and Gelding Trot,
presented by Hickory Lane Horse Farm and named for their stallion Uncle Peter,
on the first day of the Grand Circuit fortnight at The Red Mile Thursday,
September 28.
By Muscle Hill out of the Credit Winner mare You Want Me,
You Know You Do enters off a second-place finish in both the elimination and
the $328,000 final of the William Wellwood Memorial. The $350,000 Harrisburg
Yearling Sale purchase has earned $326,074 with four wins over eight starts
this season, and competes for owners Howard Taylor, Order By Stable, Bud
Hatfield, Marvin Katz, Al Libfeld, and Sam Goldband. Jimmy Takter trains and
Yannick Gingras will drive.
Julie Miller sends Toast Of Lindy, a Cantab Hall colt from
the Credit Winner mare Bellini Lindy, in the second division of the Bluegrass.
An $80,000 Lexington-Select purchase by owners Andy Miller Stable, Lindy Racing
Stable, and Gaitway Stable, Toast Of Lindy starts from post four and will have
Andy Miller in the sulky. He has won three races in seven starts this season,
most recently winning a $26,275 split of the Keystone Classic, and has earned
$104,693.
New York Sires Stakes (NYSS)-phenom Fourth Dimension matches
up with Pennsylvania Sires Stakes (PASS) consolation champ Met’s Hall and PASS
champion Fashionwoodchopper in the third Bluegrass split. Fourth Dimension, a
Chapter Seven colt out of Muscle Hill mare Corazon Blue Chip purchased for
$200,000 at the Lexington-Select sale by Courant Inc., was undefeated in four
starts before breaking in a $78,800 NYSS division at Yonkers Raceway, finishing
sixth as the 1-5 favorite. Earning $81,750, Marcus Melander conditions Fourth
Dimension, who will start from post three, and Brian Sears drives.
Met’s Hall, off two wins since finishing fifth in the Peter
Haughton Memorial, won the PASS Consolation by seven-and-a-quarter lengths, and
followed that with a lifetime-best effort of 1:54.2 in a Kindergarten prelim at
the Meadowlands. A winner of four races in six starts, the Cantab Hall colt
from the Mutineer mare Met’s Inn has earned $88,175 for owners Stroy Inc. and
Andy Millers Stables Inc. Julie Miller trains the $132,000 Harrisburg Yearling
Sale purchase and Andy Miller will drive from post seven.
A winner of three races in six starts, Fashionwoodchopper,
by Donato Hanover out of the Muscles Yankee mare Woodshopper, will try for his
fourth win in a row when he goes from post eight Thursday. Off a lifetime-best
1:56.1 in a Kindergarten prelim following his 38-1 upset in the $252,000 PASS
Championship, the Jim Campbell-trained $100,000 Harrisburg Yearling purchase
competes for owner Fashion Farms LLC and will be driven by David Miller.
Jim Campbell also sends Crystal Fashion, a Cantab Hall
gelding out of the Tagliabue mare Window Willow, for Fashion Farms LLC in the
fourth division of the Bluegrass. A winner of two races in eight starts, the
$100,000 Harrisburg Yearling purchase has banked $93,942 this season mainly
through the PASS program, finishing fourth in the $252,000 final. Tim Tetrick
will drive.
Crystal Fashion will be faced by Farsetti Hanover, runner-up
to You Know You Do in the $360,650 Peter Haughton Memorial. A colt by Donato
Hanover from the Cantab Hall mare Finesse Hanover, Farsetti Hanover, purchased
for $27,000 at the Harrisburg Yearling Sale by Ervin Miller Stables, George
Golemes, and David Prushnok, has won two races in nine starts this season,
amassing $75,139 in earnings. He’ll start from post two with Marcus Miller in
the bike.
From post position nine, trainer Jimmy Takter sends Maxus, a
Muscle Hill colt out of the Enjoy Lavec mare Gerri’s Joy, in the final
Bluegrass split. Racing for the interests of Christina Takter and Brixton
Medical Inc., Maxus, a winner of two races in nine starts, enters off a
third-place effort in the William Wellwood Memorial following a 1:56.2
lifetime-best performance in winning the elimination. Earning $125,836 so far this
season, Tim Tetrick will drive.
Also out of the William Wellwood is Night Rhythm, a
lightly-raced son of Muscle Hill out of the Andover Hall mare Tail Of Night. A
winner of one race in four starts this season, the Frank Antonacci-trained colt
for owners Lindy Farms Of Connecticut and Robert Rudolph will start from post
two after finishing seventh in his William Wellwood elimination, having won a
$75,104 Champlain division in 1:57.2 the week prior. Scott Zeron will drive the
earner of $44,152 this season.
First
race post for the kickoff to the Grand Circuit fortnight is 7:00pm EDT.
