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Rank
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Horse
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Driver,
Trainer, Owner
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Ken
Warkentin’s Comments
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1
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Ramona
Hill
(Muscle Hill)
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Andrew McCarthy, Tony
Alagna, Brad Grant, Crawford Farms Racing, Robert Leblanc, In The Gym
Partners
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Dan Patch Award
winning filly unleashed a 1:50.3 career best from post ten in the Del Miller,
uncorked a :25.4 rally for the ages in to win her elimination in 1:51.2,
“She’s been great,” Alagna said. “She was a very immature 2-year-old and she
was still able to get the job done. We were so happy with how she came
back (in the winter) in Florida. Her first start, she raced super off the
pace and two weeks ago she was sparkling and tonight she’s even better.”
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2
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Ready
For Moni
(Ready Cash)
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Yannick Gingras, Nancy
Takter, John Fielding, Lindy Farms of Conn, Herb Liverman, Bud Hatfield
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Rallied to win his Team Takter debut in
a Dancer division in 1:51.4, cruised to a new mark of 1:51.3 in his
elimination, “The way the schedule has been this year, it’s been a little
difficult to find races,” Takter said. “We didn’t want to have him
over-raced going into the Hambletonian, so he had a couple nice qualifiers to
kind of let him get into his own and hopefully he’ll take this race in the
right way and be even sharper for next week.”
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3
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Back
Of The Neck
(Ready Cash)
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Scott Zeron, Ake
Svanstedt, Howard Taylor, Order By Stable, Judith Taylor
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Scott Zeron looks for
his third Hambo in five years, won a Reynolds division @ Big M on July 11 in
1:52 with a thunderous :26.4 rally, romped in a Dancer division in a career
best equaling 1:52, second [1:51.2] to Ramona Hill in his elimination
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4
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Threefiftytwo
(Royalty For Life)
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Bob McClure, Luc Blais, Determination
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Last year’s Hambletonian upsetters with
Forbidden Trade are back with an OSS performer who took a mark of 1:52.3 @
Mohawk on July 13, finished second [1:51.4] in his elimination
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5
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Amigo
Volo
(Father Patrick)
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Dexter Dunn, Nifty Norman,
Pinske Stables, David
J. Miller
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Won her 3YO in 1:51.1,
cruised in a NYSS @ Tioga Downs in 1:54.2, romped in the EBC @ Vernon Downs
in 1:53.4, third [1:51.1] with a tough trip in the Del Miller, won a Tompkins
Geers division in a career best of 1:51.2, post two in the second elimination
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6
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Sister
Sledge
(Father Patrick)
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Brian Sears, Ron
Burke, Burke Racing Stable, Jason Melillo, J & T Silva-Purnel &
Libby, Weaver Bruscemi
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Won her first two
stakes as a 3YO @ The Meadows, second [1:52.4] in PASS @ Harrah’s
Philadelphia, took a mark of 1:51.2 in a Tompkins Geers division, fourth
[1:52] in the second elimination
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7
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Hollywood
Story
(Muscle Hill)
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Tim Tetrick, Marcus Melander, Courant
Inc.
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Melander said he’s a
green colt with only seven starts, yet getting improving, second [1:52] to
Ready for Moni in a Dancer division, fifth [1:52] in his elimination
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8
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Rome
Pays Off
(Muscle Hill)
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Mattias Melander, Marcus Melander,
S R F Stable
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2019 Breeders Crown
runner up made it two-for-two this season with a solid score in the Tompkins
Geers with a career best of 1:52.3 on July 25, parked fifth [1:52.1] in the
second elimination
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9
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Capricornus
(Cantab Hall)
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Tim Tetrick, Marcus
Melander, Jj Racing Stable
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Melander finished
second, third & fifth in last year’s Hambletonian, second in the William
Wellwood Memorial at two, rebounded with a solid third from the rail [1:52]
in his elimination
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10
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Big
Oil
(Father Patrick)
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Andy Miller, Julie
Miller, Jason, Doug & Ron Allen
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Team Orange Crush hit
the board three straight years 2016-2018, won a PA Allstars division @ Pocono
Downs in 1:53.2, third [1:52.3] in a Dancer division, fourth [1:52] in his
elimination
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