By Ken Weingartner, for
Breeders Crown
ANDERSON, Ind. – Emoticon
Hanover and driver Dan Dube went to the front and never looked back to
win Friday night’s $250,000 Breeders Crown Mare Trot by
three-quarters of a length over Caprice Hill in 1:53.4 at Hoosier Park.
Pink Pistol was third and
Flowers N Songs, who went off stride on the final turn, completed the order of
finish in the four-horse field.
Emoticon Hanover finished
second in last year’s Breeders Crown for 3-year-old female trotters. A
4-year-old has won four of the last five Breeders Crown events for the mare
trotters.
Emoticon Hanover is a
4-year-old daughter of Kadabra out of the mare Emmylou Who. She is trained by
Luc Blais for owner Serge Godin’s Determination Stable. This is Godin’s third
Breeders Crown trophy. Blais won one previous Crown with Intimidate in 2012.
Dube has won six Breeders
Crown finals in his career.
For the year, Emoticon
Hanover has won five of 12 races and earned $373,166. She has won 16 of 37
lifetime starts and earned $1.03 million.
Emoticon Hanover was bred by
Linda Wellwood, Tammy Aspden, Anne Shunock and Diane Ingham.
She paid $2.20 to win as the
1-9 favorite.
