The $214,000
Credit Winner (open) and $202,000 Muscle Hill (mares) trotting stakes
offer a look at the finest trotting talent on the continent in Grand Circuit
action on Friday, September 6 at Vernon Downs.
The Credit
Winner offers an All-Star field of eight boasting career earnings of
nearly $13 million.
The
talented group includes Arch Madness (a win would put him over the $4
million mark), 2012 Hambletonian winner Market Share, 2012 Breeders Crown 3YO
winner Intimidate, 2012 Kentucky Futurity champ My MVP, International
winner Wishing Stone, Canadian superstar Mister Herbie, the season's top earner
in the division in Sevruga and Guccio, who goes over the $1 million mark with a
win.
Intimidate is
making his first start against the top of the crop after a quiet summer in
Quebec. Trainer Luc Blais kept his prize pupil on the junior circuit before
unleashing him at the WEG tracks in August with a pair of impressive wins
in the 1:52 range. The Vernon Downs configuration mirrors that of
Mohawk Racetrack and should suit Intimidate's closing style. Ron Pierce will
drive the altered son of Justice Hall for Blais and his partner Judith Farrow
in Friday's eleventh race.
The fairer sex
will perform a race earlier with ten mares facing the gate including the
division leader Maven. The competition includes all the players, with Beatgoeson
Hanover fresh off her world record 1:51.4 effort at Pocono, Real Babe
finished right on the aforementioned mare's heels last week and last year's top
filly Check Me Out, who flashed some of her speed in a 1:55.3 win at Saratoga
in her last.
Maven has
won six of eight this season and is the leading money winner in the group. She
has rebounded from a mid-summer swoon with a sharp 1:53.3 win in the Miss
Versatility at Tioga in her last, adding Lasix. The winner of over $1 million
in her career, Maven starts from post six for regular driver Yannick Gingras.
Jonas Czernyson has conditioned the daughter of Glidemaster throughout her
career for owner W J Donovan of Ft Lauderdale.
Horses
for both races must report to the Retention Barn by noon on Friday.
The fields are as follows:
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