Looking for some help in selecting your 10 horses for the 2010 Little Brown Jug Fantasy Contest?
The first race in this year’s Jug Fantasy Contest is the final of the Hoosier Cup, which will be raced Saturday, May 29 at Hoosier Park. Participants must select 10 eligible Jug horses, two drivers and two trainers no later than10:00 a.m. (ET) on May 29. Also, Participants must 'activate' five horses from your stable who will earn points in the Hoosier Cup. You may change your “active” stable before each race.
Update point standings will be posted at jugbarn.com during the weeks leading up to the 65th Little Brown Jug, to be raced Thursday, September 23 at the Delaware County Fairgrounds. Complete rules governing play, may also be found on line at jugbarn.com. More than 50 prizes are being awarded in this year’s contest that is a joint venture between the Delaware County Fair and the U.S. Trotting Association.
EARLY 2010 STAKES WINNERS
Rock N Roll Heaven, one of the top-rated Jug challengers in most pre-season polls, won the year’s first major stakes, the $220,000 final of the Berry Creek, on Saturday, May 8 at the Meadowlands on a very windy night. Driven by Daniel Dube and trained by Bruce Saunders, Rock N Roll Heaven turned back Jug eligibles Fred And Ginger and Kyle Major in 1:52. Rock N Roll Heaven had finished third to Kyle Major in his Berry's Creek elimination. The colt’s next start will be May 15 in a New Jersey Sires Stakes event at the Meadowlands.
Ideal Matters, another Jug eligible, won the $67,000 Matts Scooter in 1:50.2 on April 24 at the Meadowlands. The colt is trained by Noel Daley and was driven by Tim Tetrick. The colt has not raced since April 24, but is expected to return this weekend at the Meadowlands. Ideal Matters did not race at two.
EARLY RATINGS BY THE EXPERTS
Three major harness racing publications have listed their ratings for the 2010 racing season. They are Hoof Beats’ Experimental Championship Ratings by Stan Bergstein; Trot Magazine’s 2010 Pepsi North America Cup Spring Book, and the Horseman And Fair World’s annual ratings by a group of leading trainers. Only Jug eligibles are listed under each publication.
EXPERIMENTAL RATINGS
1 - Sportswriter
2 - All Speed Hanover
3 - One More Laugh
4 - Rock N Roll Hanover
5 - Blue Rock
6 - Rockin Image
8 - Malicious
10 - Fancy Filly
TROT MAGAZINE
1 - Sportswriter (3-1)
2 - All Speed Hanover (6-1)
3 - Rock Roll Heaven (8-1)
4 - One More Laugh (12-1)
5 - Malicious (15-1)
6 - Delmarvalous (18-1)
7 - Rockin Image (20-1)
8 - Woodstock (22-1)
HORSEMAN AND FAIR WORLD
Blair Burgess
• All Speed Hanover
• Sportswriter
• Woodstock
• Rock N Roll Heaven
• Ideal Matters
• Malicious
• Rockin Image
• One More Laugh
Carl Jamieson
• Sportswriter
• All Speed Hanover
• Malicious
• Code Word
Ed Lohmeyer
• All Speed Hanover
• Sportswriter
• One More Laugh
• Rock N Roll Heaven
• Rockin Image
• Malicious
• Dr Dreamy
Kelly O’Donnell
• All Speed Hanover
• Sportswriter
• One More Laugh
• Rock N Roll Heaven
• Windfall Blue Chip
• Im Gorgeous
• Malicious
• Rockin Image
George Teague, Jr.
• All Speed Hanover
• One More Laugh
• Sportswriter
• Rock N Roll Heaven
• Rockin Image
• Malicious
• Blue Rock
• Lord Terror
• Woodstock
(With files from the Little Brown Jug)