Quebec-bred trotter Slave Dream’s Meadowlands debut one week ago produced a career-best mile of 1:53, capped off with a :27.2 final quarter. Afterward, the gelding's Quebec-based owners had to reject sale offers
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“He raced super. If he’s close at the top of the stretch, he’ll get you money. That was a big mile, and John Campbell didn’t whip or use the plugs,” said trainer Jean Beaulieu, who sent Slave Dream, a four-year-old Pearsall Hanover gelding, from Florida to his former assistant, Pierre Couture, in New Jersey for the first leg of the Hiram Woodruff series.
“Pierre worked for me in Quebec. He’s the one who broke him at the farm,” said Beaulieu, in the process of moving his stable from Pompano to Rockingham this week.
He'll be at the Meadowlands tonight to watch his star trotter –- at $62,000 the most expensive yearling sold at auction in Quebec in 2006 -- attempting to double up in the $18,000 second leg of the Hiram Woodruff and add to career earnings fast approaching $200,000.
“He should do okay. I think he’s one of the best in that group,” Beaulieu said.
(A Trot Insider exclusive by Paul Delean)