Award-winning female pacer Twin B Joe Fresh will head to Saturday’s $150,000 USD FanDuel Championship Mare Pace (Grade 2) at The Meadowlands with the opportunity to put another feather in her already well-feathered cap.

With a victory on Saturday, the six-year-old Chris Ryder trainee will become the first three-time winner in the history of the FanDuel/TVG Championships. Twin B Joe Fresh became the first three-year-old filly pacer to defeat the mares when she won the 2023 FanDuel title and she returned in 2024 to repeat as champ on her way to the Dan Patch Horse of the Year Award. She missed the race in 2025 because of an injury.

Three other horses have won two FanDuel/TVG crowns: female trotters Emoticon Hanover and Hannelore Hanover, and male pacer Allywag Hanover.

Twin B Joe Fresh will go to Saturday’s event with a four-race win streak and is the 7-5 morning line favourite in a field of eight mares. She will leave from post three with regular driver Dexter Dunn in the sulky. Dunn and Ryder co-own Twin B Joe Fresh with Peter Trebotica of Bordertown, New Jersey and Barry Spak of Thornton, Pennsylvania.

For her career, the daughter of Roll With Joe-Fresh Breeze has 43 wins among a total of 58 top-three finishes in 63 races. She has earned $3.51 million USD lifetime, the third-highest amount for a female pacer in North American history in U.S. dollars behind Eternal Camnation’s $3.74 million USD and Anndrovette’s $3.54 million USD, and will take over the No. 2 spot if she collects more than $31,010 USD on Saturday.

“She’s just a special, special animal,” said Ryder. “She loves to race and she’s good at it. She’s one in a million. She’s got the strength and the speed, and it’s not like she’s waning at all. She’s got it going on, the old girl. We’re looking forward to Saturday night.”

And while it is likely that Saturday’s race will be the final one of Twin B Joe Fresh’s career, the fact that she’s still got it going on has made the decision more difficult.

“She’s so good at the moment, that decision is a little bit up in the air, but I’m 90 per cent sure she’s not racing anymore,” said Ryder. “It depends on her physically. It will be [a decision] between us and the vet. It’s a very hard decision; very hard decision. She’s done so much. I want to do the right thing by her. But right now, we’re just focused on this Saturday night.”

In her most recent race, Twin B Joe Fresh won the Breeders Crown Mare Pace (Grade 1) in a stakes record-equalling 1:48.1 at Eldorado Scioto Downs. It was her second career Crown, added to her 2024 triumph, and her eighth lifetime Grade 1 victory. She has won a total of 26 graded stakes overall, with five among her seven wins in 14 starts this season. She is ranked No. 4 in the sport’s Top 10 poll.

“It’s pretty rewarding after [missing] last year’s Breeders Crown,” Ryder said about Twin B Joe Fresh’s continued success. “I’m kind of stuck for words. It’s a little bit surreal. I’ll know more about what it means to us once she’s gone. Won’t we all? She’s got such a big following, it kind of makes you proud of her. She’s given us so many good races, just too many to mention. The Breeders Crown three weeks ago was as good as any.”

Ryder put this year’s Breeders Crown and the 2023 FanDuel championship as a three-year-old at the top of many memorable performances by Twin B Joe Fresh. Another favourite is her career debut in the Tompkins-Geers Stakes for two-year-old filly pacers at The Meadowlands in 2022, which she won in 1:52.2.

“I look at that race quite often,” said Ryder. “We had her ready to race, but I usually give them two qualifiers and then look for as soft a spot as we can find. I raced her off just one qualifier [timed in 1:58 at Magical Acres] and the Tompkins-Geers was a bit of a big ask, even though I knew she was very good. But that’s what good horses do; they just do it. And away she went.”

The Meadowlands will host six Grade 1 races (FanDuel Open Trot and Open Pace championships as well as the Fall Four stakes for two-year-olds) and two Grade 2 events (FanDuel Mare Pace and Mare Trot championships) on Saturday. Racing begins at 6:20 p.m. at The Big M.

On To Norway and Super Chapter, ranked second and third, respectively, in the Top 10, headline the $300,000 USD FanDuel Championship Open Trot.

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(USTA)