The Fan Club would like to congratulate Allan Neal of Grand Bend, Ont. on winning last Wednesday’s Breeders Classic Online Handicapping Contest.
Neal scored 14 out of a possible 20 points to top the charts from all players. He selected the four stakes winners and the winningest post position (9). He has won a $50 Fan Club prize package for his efforts.
Neal, who grew up in Sudbury, watched his father’s Standardbreds in New Brunswick in the summers of the ‘60s and ‘70s when he was growing up. He ventured into horse ownership in the early ‘80s and returned to the business about a year ago. He currently owns eight horses with trainer Dave Dowling and two with trainer Mike Dowling.
One of Neal’s horses, which also happens to be his favourite, is Kennel Buddy, who scored his 11th win this season at The Raceway at Western Fair District this past Friday night. Trained by Dave Dowling, the win pushed the five-year-old gelded son of Ken Warkentin’s bankroll to $57,712 for his owner.
Neal is an operations supervisor of retail services at Fanshawe College in London, Ont. and is currently enrolled in three online equine courses at the University of Guelph and is working towards an Equine Diploma.
2015 BREEDERS CLASSIC CONTEST RESULTS
- Select the winner of the BETTY MILLBANK MEMORIAL BREEDERS STAKES (TWO-YEAR-OLD FILLIES) FINAL (3 points) #9 Mach And Roll Baby
- Select the winner of the ROBERT MILLBANK MEMORIAL BREEDERS STAKES (TWO-YEAR-OLD COLTS & GELDINGS) FINAL (3 points) #9 Bobby Dazzler
- Select the winner of the MARY MURPHY BREEDERS STAKES FOR THREE-YEAR-OLD FILLIES FINAL (3 points) # 7 Watch My Luck
- Select the winner of the ROBERT MURPHY BREEDERS STAKES FOR THREE-YEAR-OLD COLTS & GELDINGS FINAL (3 points) #9 Illwinifican
- Select the winningest post position for the day (2 points). #9
- Which driver (from list provided) will win the most purse money from his/her drives on Breeders Classic Day? (2 points) Jim Marino drove horses to earnings of $78,520, including the winner of the Millbank for two-year-old pacing fillies and a runner up finish in the Robert Murphy for three-year-old pacing colts
- Which trainer (from list provided) will win the most purse money from his/her drives on Breeders Classic Day? (2 points) Denis Johnston – $150,603 – first and second in the Robert Murphy for three-year-old pacing colts, second in the Milbank for two-year-old pacing colts
- Select the race that will have the fastest finishing time of the day. (2 points) Race 10, with a time of 1:54.2
For all of the results on Breeders Classic Day at Fraser Downs, click here.