Layton Hanover Sells For Six Figures

Layton Hanover winning at Harrah's Philadelphia

Fast class pacer Layton Hanover sold for six figures in an online auction on Thursday afternoon, May 9.

The five-year-old Captaintreacherous-Livin Life gelding, who earned his third straight win of the season on Monday at Yonkers Raceway for the Travis Alexander stable, was purchased for $164,384 by Mike Hall of Delaware via onGait.com. 

A former Pennsylvania Sires Stakes winner and dead-heat runner-up in last year's Charles Juravinski Memorial Cup, Layton Hanover has put together a career record reading 13-9-11 from 53 starts with just over $410,000 in purse earnings. He took his lifetime mark of 1:50.1 winning a sophomore sires stakes event over Harrah's Philadelphia. The pacer was formerly owned by Fiddler's Creek Stables, D Elegance Stable Ix, T L P Stable and Carmen Iannacone.

Also selling this week via onGait, the Courtly Choice filly Violetta Blue Chip p,3,1:55.1h-'24 was purchased for $83,562 by Ken Jacobs of New York from the partnership of Randy Bendis and Pollack Racing LLC; Overboard 3,1:53.4, a four-year-old Father Patrick mare, was sold by John McKeon Jr. for $69,863 with Diamond Creek Farm's Adam Bowden the high bidder; and the Ontario-based Freaky Feet Pete three-year-old gelding Dont Freak Out p,2,1:54s was purchased for $53,562 by JD Perrin of Ohio from Brock MacLellan and Dale Spence.

(With files from onGait)

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