The Meadowlands Racetrack’s Thursday, February 23 card will open with a pair of interesting three-year-old fillies from the Joe Holloway barn in competition during Race 1, a non-winners pacing class.
Holloway has developed some truly great mares, including Shebestingin, the fastest female Standardbred ever, who seared around the Red Mile in 1:47 a few years ago along with multiple world champion Shes A Great Lady and the 2015 Dan Patch award winning Divine Caroline.
Led by the great triple Breeders Crown winning world champion Jennas Beach Boy ($1.9 million), horses trained by Holloway have earned more than $30 million over his illustrious career.
Make no mistake, Thefoolalwaysrocks and Twist Of Fate have a mountain to climb to reach that lofty perch but both have the pedigree and are gaining experience over the winter.
Thefoolalwaysrocks is a homebred owned by Roll The Dice Stable, Joe Hurley's Nom d'Course. She is by successful sire Always A Virgin who was campaigned by the same connections. This filly won a schooling race last year in 1:56.4, but hasn't raced much, and her last couple of starts have done little to impress.
Twist Of Fate is an Art Major bay owned by a partnership that includes two longtime Holloway patrons who shared in the great Shebestingin, Marty Granoff's Val D'or Farms and Ted Gewertz, along with John Travis as Four J's Stable, LLC. She's coming in on a three-race winning streak that includes a career best 1:54.1 at Dover Downs last month.
The fillies will race uncoupled due to bona-fide separate ownership per the NJRC.
Races 7 - 9 will again be carried live on the SNY network with Justin Horowitz in the host chair.
Post time is 7:15 p.m.
(Meadowlands Racetrack)