New Jersey Sire Stakes Final champ Muscle Massive and Peter Haughton winner Holiday Road are among the 23 colts and geldings vying in a trio of Stanley Dancer Memorial Trot divisions on Saturday, July 17 at the Meadowlands
Racetrack.
Nine of the competitors, competing for purses ranging from $127,500 to $130,000 in Races 1, 5 and 11, are products of the New Jersey breeding program.
The three Dancer divisions and a quartet of $200,000 New Jersey Sire Stakes Finals for two-year-olds share the spotlight with the $1 million Meadowlands Pace on Saturday. Nearly $2.4 million in purse money will be dispersed during the 14-race program.
Muscle Massive, by Muscles Yankee, and Holiday Road, by Yankee Glide, are the morning line favourites in their respective divisions.
Muscle Massive, the 9-5 choice in the fifth race, won the $200,000 New Jersey Sire Stakes Final on June 12 and has finished in-the-money in four of five starts this year, banking $137,165 toward a career total of $162,692 for the ownership of Brixton Medical AB of Orsundsbro, Sweden; Order By Stable of Boras, Sweden; Louie Camara of Puslinch, ON and Marvin Katz, Al Libfeld and Sam Goldband of Pickering, ON.
Ron Pierce drives the Jimmy Takter-trained Muscle Massive, who will face seven others, including a trio of other New Jersey-sired three-year-olds: Take My Picture (by Classic Photo), Flex The Muscle (Muscles Yankee) and Temple Of Doom (Yankee Glide).
Holiday Road, the winner of three of six starts at two and his 2010 debut in the Dickerson, drew the rail in the Race 11 division with Brian Sears at the lines. He trotted his Dickerson mile in 1:52.4, a season’s record.
Holiday Road, trained by Greg Peck, won the Peter Haughton at two and has banked $352,800 lifetime for the partnership of Jerry Silva of Long Beach, New York; TLP Stable of Kearny New Jersey; Four Friends Racing Stable LLC of Moorestown, New Jersey and Deo Volente-Peck Stable of Long Beach, New York.
His eight-horse Dancer division also includes Classic Viking (Classic Photo), Break The Bank K (Revenue) and Lucky Chucky (Windsongs Legacy).
Lucky Chucky was voted the Two-Year-Old Trotting Colt of the Year in 2009 in the U.S. when he had nine wins and finished in-the-money in all 12 starts, earning over $672,000.
In the first division, the first race, Senor Glide (Yankee Glide) and Hes A Demon (Muscles Yankee) round out the New Jerseyans.
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(With files from SBOANJ)