A Look Back at Broadway Preview (06/17/10)

Posted Thursday, June 17, 2010

                                                      By Mike Paradise

  This is another feature exclusively on www.harnessillinois.com. Every week I’ll post a least one “Looking Back feature. Mostly they’ll be of the great horses who have competed in our state through the years. At times they’ll be pictures from the winner’s circle, special celebrations, and in some cases old memorable race track scenes. Some of these photos haven’t been printed or posted in decades . . . others have never been printed at all.
  
  Just by right clicking your computer mouse, going to “Save Picture As”, you can make your own jpeg copy of any Looking Back photo posted. You can e-mail them and share with a friend or maybe start your own computer file of “Looking Back” memories.

                                               Looking Back

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                                                      BROADWAY PREVIEW

  This Saturday night Balmoral Park will honor Broadway Preview with an Illinois bred stake for older pacers and it’s only fitting the feature race is named after this homebred son of Broadway Express because he dominated the state-bred ranks in the middle 1990s in Illinois.

  Co-owned by Sarah Hunt and breeder Hunt Harness Horses Inc of Rig Rock, Illinois, Broadway Preview was the first horse ever to capture back-to-back Super Night championships when he won the Dan Patch Finals in both 1995 and 1996 at Sportsman’s Park as a 4 and 5-year-old.

  In a three year span, from 1995 through 1997, Broadway Preview won over 54 per cent of his races, going 45 for 83 against not only the best ICF pacers in the state but often against tough open company foes as well, and pulled down almost $405,000 in purse earnings in those trio of seasons.

  For his career Broadway Preview won 54 of 114 starts and earned $631,300.