Muscle Shirt Looking For Fourth Straight

Muscle Shirt has ripped off three straight victories and will bid for her fourth in a row in the $43,900 second leg of the New Jersey Sire Stakes for three-year-old trotting fillies on Thursday, August 28 at Freehold Raceway.

Muscle Shirt drew Post 9, has been installed as the 5-2 morning line favourite and has picked up a new driver in Jeff Gregory.

The Chuck Sylvester-trained daughter of Muscles Yankee began her streak in the eliminations for the Helen Smith Trot and took her mark of 1:56.3 when she won the $70,000 Helen Smith on August 15 at Freehold.

Muscle Shirt added her third straight in an opening round New Jersey Sire Stakes event on August 21 to lift her record to three wins and two thirds in nine starts this year. Lifetime, she has seven wins and two thirds in 16 attempts, banking $134,210.

The field for the $43,900 NJSS, carded as Race 5, is listed below.

Post - Horse - Driver - Line
1 - Meucci Madness - T. Smedshammer, 7-2
2 - Winkys Magik - J. Bartlett - 10-1
3 - Winbak Brat - S. Smith - 9-2
4 - Bank On Rosie - J. Marshall III - 15-1
5 - Dreamanda - P. Berry - 12-1
6 - Fancy Vacation - A. Miller - 6-1
7 - Just In Time - D. Miller - 8-1
8 - One Tough Lass - J. Pantaleano - 5-1
9 - Muscle Shirt - J. Gregory - 5-2

The Thursday card also includes four divisions of NJSS Green Acres -- the second and third races for three-year-old trotting colts and geldings, and the fourth and ninth races for two-year-old pacing fillies.

Click here to view the entries for Freehold's Thursday card.

(With files from the New Jersey SBOA)

Have something to say about this? Log in or create an account to post a comment.