Dial Or Nodial Heads NJ Classic Field
Dial Or Nodial, one of the top earning two-year-old colts last year, was installed the prohibitive 6-5 morning line favourite in the $500,000 Anthony Abbatiello New Jersey Classic
on Saturday, June 13 at the Meadowlands.
The event for three-year-old colt pacers headlines a card featuring $1.1 million in stakes for NJ-sired horses and shares the spotlight with the $175,000 Thomas D'Altrui Miss New Jersey for fillies and a pair of $200,000 New Jersey Sire Stakes Championships for three-year-old trotters.
The Miss New Jersey and New Jersey Classic are sponsored by the Standardbred Breeders & Owners Association of New Jersey. The New Jersey Classic is carded as race seven with an estimated post time of 9:11 p.m., while the Miss New Jersey is slated as race five (8:27 p.m.).
Dial Or Nodial will start from the rail in the New Jersey Classic with Brian Sears in the sulky. Trained by Jim Campbell, the son of Western Ideal has won two of three starts this season, including the $200,000 New Jersey Sire Stakes Final on May 30 and a 1:50.2 score in his New Jersey Classic elimination on June 6.
Dial Or Nodial was one of the sport's top colts as a freshman, winning eight of 12 races and $429,740. He was voted the 2008 New Jersey Sire Stakes Horse of the Year. Arlene and Jules Siegel of New Hope, PA bred and own the gelding, who enters the New Jersey Classic Final with career totals of 10 wins in 15 starts and $557,590.
"He was a super nice colt last year and he's showing up again this year and everything seems to be as expected," Sears said. "He was pretty much in hand [in his New Jersey Classic elimination]."
Passmaster Hanover was tabbed as the 5-1 second choice after winning his New Jersey Classic elimination by three lengths in 1:50.3. He will start from post three with Tim Tetrick at the lines. The lightly raced son of Cams Card Shark has four wins in six career starts for trainer Blair Burgess and owners Brittany Farms of Versailles, KY and Jeff Snyder of New York, NY.
Showherthemoney, a winner of three of six starts this season, received the nod as 5-2 favourite in the $175,000 Thomas D'Altrui Miss New Jersey for fillies. She will leave from post, also with Sears in the pilot's seat.
The daughter of Cams Card Shark lifted her career earnings to $75,191 with a 1:52.2 victory in her Miss New Jersey elimination on June 5. Bjorn "Bernie" Noren trains the filly for Bulletproof Enterprises of Boca Raton, FL. Ashley Fairfield of Egg Harbor Township, Miss New Jersey for 2008-2009, will present the trophy to the winner of the race.
The June 13 card at the Meadowlands has also been dubbed Go Red Night at the Races to benefit the American Heart Association's Go Red for Women program. Guests can join in the fundraising efforts by donation through AHA's on-site volunteers or by ordering from a special prix fixe menu in Terraces Restaurant. The three-course menu features two wine pairings for $42 per person (excludes tax, gratuity, admission and program), with $5 from each meal sold donated directly to the AHA.
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Click here for Press materials for the 2009 New Jersey Classic and Miss New Jersey.
$500,000 SBOA/Anthony Abbatiello New Jersey Classic
1. Dial Or Nodial Brian Sears
2. Vintage Master
3. Passmaster Hanover
4. Redneck Riviera
5. Vertical Horizon
6. Amazon Art
7. Riding The Rapids
8. Sombrero Blue Chip
9. Estero Bay
10. Poker Shark
$175,000 SBOA/Thomas D'Altrui Miss New Jersey
1. Precious Stone [pp8]
1A. Perfectionist [pp9]
2. McGibson [pp1]
3. Showherthemoney [pp2]
4. Personal Ad [pp3]
5. U Foria B B [pp4]
6. Scarlet Mczara [pp5]
7. Special Sweetheart [pp6]
8. Arbeedo [pp7]
9. Dawns Legacy [pp10]
(The Meadowlands)