-Submitted
by Carol Hodes for the SBOANJ
MANALAPAN,
NJ – June 25, 2014 – Hope springs eternal as two-year-old New Jersey-sired
pacers and trotters make their first career starts on Friday night, June 27,
2014 at the Meadowlands Racetrack.
Eight
trotting colts – five sons of Muscles Yankee and three by Muscle Hill – will
make their debuts in the second race, the first leg of the New Jersey Sire
Stakes, vying for a purse of $39,000.
Seven
trotting fillies, all by Muscle Hill, will go postward in the $38,500 fifth
race.
Two
divisions of pacing colts and geldings, each worth $27,000, are carded as the
ninth and 12th races on the 14-race card. In the first split,
there are six sons of Rocknroll Hanover, two by Cam’s Card Shark and one by
Western Ideal. In the second division, five are by Rocknroll Hanover, and
two each by Cam’s Card Shark and Western Ideal.
Two-year-old
pacing fillies are competing in a pair of $25,500 divisions, races three and
11, and include seven by Rocknroll Hanover and five by Western Ideal.
Yearling
prices do not guarantee great racehorses but expectations will be high for the
six entrants who cost $100,000 or more as yearlings.
Among
the trotters, they are French Laundry, a $115,000 Lexington Selected Sale
purchase trained by Jimmy Takter and winner in both of his baby races,
including a 1:57.3 clocking on June 14. The son of Muscles Yankee is out
of the $927,169-earner and Hambletonian Oaks winner Creamy Mimi, who is also
the dam of The Franchise and King City. French Laundry races for
Christina Takter, John Fielding, Jim Fielding and co-breeders Marvin Katz and
Al Libfeld.
True
Blue Stride, a Muscle Hill son of Sabrina Hall, cost $160,000 at the Harrisburg
Sale. He is the three-quarter brother of He’s A Demon, who banked more
than $300,000. Mark Harder trains for Australians Emilio and Maria
Rosati.
The
filly Mission Brief, trained by Ron Burke, was a $150,000 Lexington Selected
Sale purchase by Burke Racing, Our Horse Cents Stables, J&T Silva Stables
and Weaver Bruscemi. The daughter of Muscle Hill is out of Breeders Crown
winner Southwind Serena and won her last baby race by 23 lengths in 1:57.4.
On
the pacing side, Richard and Joanne Young have invested $180,000 [Lexington
Selected Sale] in The Show Returns by Rocknroll Hanover out of Stienam’s Place
and turned her over to trainer Chris Ryder. The Youngs campaigned her
$2.4 million earning full sister Put On A Show.
Tony
Alagna is training Cashaway for Brittany Farms [co-breeder] and Marvin Katz,
after the Western Ideal –CPA filly passed through the Lexington Selected sales
ring for $105,000. She is the full sister to two who have won in excess
of $250,000 each, Authorize and Act Now, and has won a baby race in 1:55.4.
The
Rocknroll Hanover colt Sid Rock is the first foal of My Fantasy, who earned
nearly $345,000. He was a $100,000 Lexington Selected Sale purchase for
William Wiswell, Jean Goehlen and Eugene Schick and is trained by John
Butenschoen.
