MANALAPAN,
NJ – October 1, 2013 – A mix of four colts and two fillies are set to go
postward in the $20,000 New Jersey Futurity for three-year-old trotters on
Thursday, October 3, 2013 at Freehold Raceway.
Sponsored
by the Standardbred Breeders & Owners Association of New Jersey, the New
Jersey Futurity is restricted to New Jersey-sired trotters. This year’s
field includes three by Muscles Yankee, two by Chocolatier and one by Revenue
in the third race feature.
Dagget,
who won the opening round of the New Jersey Sire Stakes – Green Acres last
week, will bid for his second in a row for the team of driver Tyler Butenschoen
and his father, trainer John Butenschoen. The Chocolatier gelding has
four wins, one second and one third in 17 starts.
Unraced
at two, he has banked $31,395 this year, making him the richest of the six
starters. He campaigns for William Wiswell of Elkhorn, WI and Jean
Goehlen of Aurora, IL. He is rated 4-1 in the morning line from post
five.
Winbak
Blondie is the slight 2-1 morning line favorite. The daughter of Muscles
Yankee will leave from post two with Mark MacDonald at the lines for trainer
Rick Zeron.
Winbak
Blondie has two wins in nine starts this year, all in Canada. The filly
has earned $8,352 for the Rick Zeron Stables, Scott Zeron Inc and Hutt Racing
Stable.
The
field for the $20,000 New Jersey Futurity [from the rail out with sire, driver,
trainer and morning line odds]: Connie Keeper, Muscles Yankee, Jim Marshall
III, Christopher Freck, 5-1; Winbak Blondie, Muscles Yankee, Mark
MacDonald, Rick Zeron, 2-1; Power Wheel, Muscles Yankee, Anthony Morgan, Gary
Cameron II, 3-1; Fandango Tornado, Revenue, Vincent Ginsburg, James Porter,
8-1; Dagget, Chocolatier, Tyler Butenschoen, John Butenschoen, 4-1 and Chocolate
Delight, Chocolatier, Jim Meittinis, Oyvind Hegdal, 6-1.
-Submitted
by Carol Hodes for SBOANJ
