Early North America Cup favourite Louprint turned in his second winning qualifier of the season on Tuesday, April 22 at The Meadows.

Following a 1:52.3 sophomore qualifying debut on April 12 over a 'good' Meadowlands track in rein to Dexter Dunn, the Ron Burke-trained Louprint was reunited with his regular reinsman, Ronnie Wrenn Jr., for the Meadows mile. They led at every call in the day's fastest of 11 qualifiers, posting fractions of :29.1 and :58 before accelerating with back-to-back :27.1 panels through three-quarters in 1:25.1 and home in 1:52.2. Louprint's stablemate, multiple Ohio Sire Stakes winner Rick Wink, followed his lead and finished three-quarters of a length behind with Mike Wilder in the bike while the rest of the field ran their own race more than 27 lengths behind. 

Top three in all 10 of his starts during a million-dollar freshman campaign with six sub-1:50 miles, Louprint was named the 2024 U.S. Two-Year-Old Pacing Colt of the Year. Among his seven wins, the Sweet Lou-Rockin Racer colt won the Breeders Crown, a division of the International Stallion Stakes and multiple Pennsylvania and Kentucky sires stakes, including the Bluegrass State's championship in a career-best 1:48.4 at The Red Mile.

He is a homebred of Pennsylvania's Burke Racing Stable, Weaver Bruscemi and Phil Collura, with New Jersey's Larry Karr joining the ownership group after the colt's first qualifier.

Louprint is the top ranked three-year-old pacer eligible to the 2025 North America Cup, assessed as the 3-1 favourite in TROT Magazine's Spring Book.

Trainer Ron Burke told Standardbred Canada that Louprint is likely headed to the first Pennsylvania Sire Stakes event on May 3.

The Burke-trained world champion filly Looksgoodinloulou was also a qualifying winner on Tuesday morning in rein to Wrenn. In her second charted mile this year, the Sweet Lou-Looksgoodinaromper filly was in a league of her own with a margin of 11-1/4 lengths at the end of her 1:54.3 mile, capped by a :27.2 final quarter.

(Standardbred Canada; photo of Louprint winning last year at The Meadows)