Illinois Domination at The Big M (03/09/10)

Posted Tuesday, March 9, 2010

                                                       By Mike Paradise

  Last Friday’s Tender Loving Care Final at The Meadowlands was dominated by Illinois owned or Illinois bred pacers who took the first four places in the $61,000 event for three-year-old pacing fillies at the New Jersey track.

  It was Odds On Moinet who captured the event by one and one-quarter lengths. A daughter of Real Artist-Aparte, Odds On Moinet was a $32,000 yearling purchase at the 2008 Harrisburg Sale by trainer Robin Schadt and Dana Parham’s Odds On Racing of Crete, Illinois when she sold under the name Margiespartygirl. The filly posted a 1:54.1 clocking when she improved her record to four wins in 12 career starts and surpassed $50,000 in earnings.

 The next three finishers were all ICF sophomore filly pacers—Rev Me Up, The Assassinator and Fox Valley Dazzle.

  Rev Me Up, a daughter of Park Place, and The Assassinator, a Richest Hanover offspring, both were sold later in their freshmen seasons last year to east coast connections. The Assassinator captured both the Springfield and Du Quoin freshman filly pacing championships when she raced for trainer Nick Giberson and was driven by Jamaica Patton. Rev It Up also was campaigned by Giberson as a freshman and picked-up purse checks in the First Lady (DuQuoin) and the Orange and Blue Final (Balmoral).

  Fox Valley Dazzle, another daughter of Richest Hanover, was unraced at two for trainer Erv Miller and could turn out to be a $6,500 bargain buy from the 2008 Walker Standardbred Sale for Hannah Miller (Sherman, IL) and Tony Alagna (Steger, IL). The filly has earned $12,480 in her first three career starts. She’s a half-sister to the former Jim Eaton trainee Big Puff Doogie (1:52.1).

  Schadt in the Sulky Seat: Robin Schadt, trainer for the Odds On Racing Stable, will be the featured guest on Meadowlands Racetrack’s Wednesday night pre-card television broadcast that beings at 6:30 p.m.

 Robin will talk about her recent claiming activity, Odds On Moinet’s Tender Loving Care win and more.  Fans can e-mail questions for her to answer on air to racing@thebigm.com. You can also watch the live the interview video on MeadowlandsRacetrack.com: http://www.meadowlandsracetrack.com/liveVideo.asp.
 

  On The Light Side: The Balmoral entry box continues to be sparse. Wednesday night’s program has just 10 races instead of the scheduled 11. Only 80 horses are racing and 13 of them were entered prior to be raced either Saturday or Sunday. Last Saturday’s card was reduced to 13 races in place of the normal 14 when entries again came up short.

  The fact that highest purse on Balmoral’s Wednesday card is a pair of $3,100 events says it all.

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