Meadowlanda Relations
|
Rank |
Horse |
Driver,
Trainer, Owner |
Ken
Warkentin’s Comments |
|
1 |
Real Cool Sam (Muscle
Hill) |
Dave
Miller, Jim Campbell, Fashion Farms LLC |
Dan Patch
Award winner named after Hall of Famer Sam McKee won his first nine starts,
including the Peter Haughton Memorial, Jim Campbell said, “We’re in no hurry
to qualify him and didn’t really have a set schedule; I just want to have a
limited number of starts”, entered to qualify @ Big M on June 20 |
|
2 |
Amigo Volo (Father
Patrick) |
Dexter
Dunn, Nifty Norman, Pinske Stables, David J. Miller |
Leading
money winner among 2YO trotters in 2019 [$610,646], won the Breeders Crown
& Matron, and set four world records, fifth [:26.4] from post nine in his
second qualifier on June 6 @ Big M, entered to qualify @ Big M on June 20 |
|
3 |
Hypnotic AM (Chapter
Seven) |
Brian
Sears, Marcus Melander, Courant Inc. |
NYSS
champion & Jim Doherty Memorial winner by Chapter Seven won her first Big
M qualifier in 1:54 on June May 30, then unleashed an ultra impressive 1:51.1
[:27.3] on June 12, prompting her connections to consider a shot at the
boys |
|
4 |
Capricornus (Muscle
Hill) |
Tim Tetrick, Marcus Melander, JJ
Racing Stable, Inc |
William
Wellwood Memorial elimination winner & second in that final, Melander
finished second, third & fifth in last year’s Hambletonian, second [1:55.3]
in a Big M qualifier on May 30, second [1:52.4] in his 2020 debut on June 5 |
|
5 |
Big Oil (Father
Patrick) |
Andy &
Julie Miller, Jason, Doug & Ron Allen |
Team
Orange Crush have two seconds & a third in the last four Hambletonians,
this son of Father Patrick finished first in a deadheat with Real Cool Sam in
1:52.1 @ The Red Mile, fourth [1:57.1] in a Gaitway qualifier on May 31,
1:53.3 winner @ Big M on June 12 |
|
6 |
Maesteraemon (Andover
Hall) |
Brian
Sears, Marcus Melander, S R F Stable |
Improving
son of Andover Hall gives Melander three in the top ten, took a mark of
1:52.4 @ The Red Mile, seventh [1:56.3] in a Big M qualifier on May 30, then
rallied to win a Big M qualifier in 1:53.3 [:26.4] on June 6, entered to
qualify @ Big M on June 20 |
|
7 |
Third Shift (Chapter
Seven) |
Ake
Svanstedt, Mellby Gard, Inc., Ake Svanstedt |
NYSS
champion son of Chapter Seven set a stakes & Batavia Downs track record
of 1:56 in the NYSS Final, banked $210,461, won a Big M qualifier in 1:55 on
May 30, Svanstedt has three other prospects: Moon Bridge, King Alphonso
& Gangster Hanover |
|
8 |
Synergy (Father
Patrick) |
Yannick
Gingras, Per Engblom, Brittany Farms, John Fielding, Herb Liverman &
David Anderson |
Per
Engblom made his Hambletonian debut last year with Osterc, this son of Father
Patrick won a Peter Haughton elimination, Champlain division & Breeders
Crown elimination, third [1:55.4] in a Big M qualifier on May 30, fourth
[1:54.2] @ Big M on June 12, entered to qualify @ Big M on June 20 |
|
9 |
Ready For Moni (Ready
Cash) |
Yannick
Gingras, Per Engblom, John Fielding, Lindy Farms of Conn, Herb Liverman &
Bud Hatfield |
Son of
two-time Prix D’Amerique winner Ready Cash & grandson of the great Moni
Maker won the Kentucky Sires Stakes Final in 1:54.1 & finished second in
the Valley Victory Final, scratched from a Big M qualifier on June 12 |
|
10 |
Rome Pays Off (Muscle
Hill) |
Mattias Melander, Marcus
Melander, S R F Stable |
$339,484
winning son of Muscle Hill was second in both the Peter Haughton Memorial
& Breeders Crown, Melander had the Winterbook favorite the past two
years, sixth [1:56.2] in a Big M qualifier on May 30, then ninth [1:57.1] on
June 6 |
