MANALAPAN,
NJ – September 26, 2013 – Certified Ideal breezed to a three-length victory,
extending her winning streak to three, in the $25,000 New Jersey Sire Stakes –
Green Acres Final, the featured seventh race on Thursday, September 26, 2013 at
Freehold Raceway.
Six
three-year-old pacing fillies went postward; My Tallia Ideal was scratched
sick.
Jim
Pantaleano put Certified Ideal [$2.20] on the lead, and she performed like an
odds on favorite, defeating Light of Day [Rocknroll Hanover] by three and Get
The Look [Cam’s Card Shark] by seven and a quarter.
Trained
by Ross Croghan, Certified Ideal is a daughter of Western Ideal and races for
her owner-breeders, Arthur Rudolph and the Rudolph Stables of Ronkonkoma, NY,
and Bernard Owen of Boynton Beach, FL.
The
mile was timed in 1:56.3.
Certified
Ideal now has five wins, one second and one third in 11 starts this year and
has finished in-the-money in 10 of 20 career starts, banking $69,029.
Prior
to the betting card, Vida De Vie, a three-year-old trotting filly, scored a six
and three-quarter length victory in the $7,000 second leg of the New Jersey
Sire Stakes – Green Acres.
The
Muscles Yankee filly, driven by Daniel Dube and trained by Chris Ryder, trotted
the mile in 1:59.1, defeating Connie Keeper [Muscles Yankee].
It
was 27 ½ lengths to Queen of More [Chocolatier] in third.
Owned
and bred by Joie De Vie Farm LLC of Jobstown, NJ, Vida De Vie now has three
wins, one second and three thirds in 17 starts this year and six wins, three
second and four thirds in 29 starts lifetime with earnings in excess of
$90,000.
-Submitted
by Carol Hodes for SBOANJ
