Maven To TVG, With New Owners

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Published: November 25, 2014 01:57 pm EST

Formidable trotting mare Maven will have new ownership when she starts in the $500,000 (U.S.) TVG final on Saturday at The Meadowlands.

Former Montrealer Herb Liverman, who bought the five-year-old mare at auction in Harrisburg three weeks ago for $750,000 and has since collected $137,500 with her from an elimination win and runner-up finish in the final of the Breeders Crown, now has John Fielding of Toronto and Joyce McClelland of Ohio as partners.

The three already are part of the ownership group of two-year-old trotting gelding Pinkman, who won his Breeders Crown final on the weekend.

“Actually, John and I are partners already in about 15 horses,” Liverman said.

He said the deal was proposed during the socializing that is part of Breeders Crown festivities and got concluded today.

“It takes off some of the pressure (of such an expensive purchase),” he said.

Liverman, 68, said he’d like to see Maven, a career winner of $1.7 million, compete in France’s trotting classic the Prix d’Amerique. “I haven’t been to Paris since my honeymoon (in 1981),” he said.

For now, though, the focus is Saturday’s TVG final, where she won’t have to face Breeders Crown champ Commander Crowe but will meet the always-dangerous Sebastian K. Also qualifying for the starting field of 10 is four-year-old Bee A Magician, champion in the Breeders Crown Mares Trot, also co-owned by Liverman.

$500,000 TVG Free-For-All Trot

1. Creatine (Ron Pierce)
2. Wishing Stone (Matt Kakaley)
3. Bee A Magician (David Miller)
4. DWs NY Yank (TBA)
5. Sebastian K (Ake Svanstedt)
6. Market Share (Tim Tetrick)
7. Intimidate (Scott Zeron)
8. Flanagan Memory (Brett Miller)
9. Arch Madness (Trond Smedshammer)
10. Maven (Yannick Gingras)

(A Trot Insider Exclusive by Paul Delean)

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