EAST RUTERFORDS, NJ – August 4, 2018 – Atlanta blazed the
fractions but it was Crystal Fashion who got up at the wire to win the eighth
race, the first of two $100,000 Hambletonian Elimination heats on Saturday
afternoon at the Meadowlands Racetrack.
Crystal Fashion, driven by Tim Tetrick and trained by Jim
Campbell, crossed the wire in 1:50 1/5, for a neck victory over the filly,
Atlanta, with 5 ½ lengths back to Met’s Hall in third. The time equaled
the stakes and track record for a 3-year-old trotting gelding.
Evaluate and Hat Trick Habit finished fourth and fifth,
respectively, to advance to the $1 million Hambletonian Final.
“I liked my chances to make the final,” said Tetrick.
“I tipped him to chase the mare down. My horse made up a lot of ground
[from sixth] to catch that mare.”
Crystal Fashion paid $10.00, $4.20, $3.00. Atlanta,
sent off at 8-5, returned $3.60, $3.00. Met’s Hall, 40-1, paid $9.60 to
show.
The winner, a son of Cantab Hall, was bred by Hanover Shoe
Farms and races in the name of Fashion Farms LLC of New Hope, PA.
