Perretti Farms, in association with Lindy Farms of Connecticut, has 'acquired a substantial interest' in divisional champion Lucky Chucky and will

stand the trotting colt in New Jersey at the end of his racing career.

“Upon completion of his racing career, he’ll stand at the farm,” said Perretti spokesman Bob Marks.

Lucky Chucky, the Dan Patch Award winner as Two-Year-Old Trotter of the Year for 2009, was bred and raised at Perretti Farms in Cream Ridge, New Jersey.

“He is from the last crop of Windsongs Legacy and from (the mare) Aerobics, by Muscles Yankee,” Marks noted.

The purchase price was not disclosed.

Lucky Chucky was acquired as a yearling for $10,000 at the Harrisburg Sale by Neal Goldman of Williamstown, New Jersey; Amy Lynn Stoltzfus of Williamstown, New Jersey and trainer Chuck Sylvester of Washington Township, New Jersey.

Last year, at two, he posted nine wins, two seconds and one third from 12 starts for earnings of $672,634. John Campbell has been his driver in all his appearances.

The bay took his record of 1:55.1 in a Breeders Crown elimination and posted victories in the $450,000 Valley Victory at Chester, the $166,800 Matron at Dover Downs, and divisions of the Bluegrass and International Stallion Stakes at Lexington’s Red Mile. He also finished second in the $600,000 Breeders Crown at Woodbine and third in the $523,600 Peter Haughton Memorial at the Meadowlands where he won a $30,520 division of the Harriman in his first pari-mutuel start.

Windsongs Legacy, who had banked $1.9 million during his 2003-2004 racing career, died in March of 2008, early in his fourth season at stud. His 110 starters have banked nearly $5.4 million. Thus far, his top two earners are the mares Windsong Soprano with $963,549 and Yursa Hanover with $701,923.

(SBOANJ)