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Hanover Night Worth the Drive (07/16/10)Posted Friday, July 16, 2010 By Mike Paradise Saturday is Hanover Night at Balmoral Park and this event has become on of my favorites on the circuit. I plan on being there and I encourage you to do the same. No less than ten open company stakes are strung on the 14-race card and while the purses on these added money events may not be as high in value as we would like, the quality of the competition certainly is worth the drive to the Crete, IL facility. The Balmoral Park entry box was overflowing with something like 350 horses entered on the card and 80 of them were for the quartet of Hanover stakes, necessitating a total of 10 divisions. Only four races—with 39 horses—on the card are not Hanover’s Saturday so there are a couple hundred horses who didn’t get in this week. But this Saturday belongs to the young horses and their owners who have invested in these juvenile colts and fillies. They could get a good idea on what kind of a return they’ll get for their money. There are 47 freshmen competing in six Hanover divisions. Some have already shown they know how to win races, while others are making their very first pari-mutuel start Saturday and could end up being future champions Saturday’s opener is the first of a trio $19,100 Hanover’s for first season pacing fillies and it beings together Balmoral’s double-stakes winner Little Maeve (programmed at 2-1, Mike Oosting) and Maywood’s twin stakes champion Little Miss Henry (5-2, Casey Leonard). The fourth race is the first of three $25,600 events for 2-year-old colts and geldings with recent PASS stake victor Mystic Desire (2-1, Dave Magee) with a 1:53.1 clocking on The Meadow’s five-eighths track taking on Illinois bred Fox Valley Libero (7-2, Mike Oosting) who seeking his fourth consecutive victory, among others. The 3-year-olds take over the spotlight start in race seven with the first of two $22,700 Hanover’s for pacing colts and geldings and much of the public’s money figures to be played on the Bobby Browner Stabels’s Allthatgltrsisgold (2-1, Dave Magee) off his speedy 1:49 flat clocking in the $97, 000 North America Cup last month. The son of Cam’s Card Shark earlier was second best in the $500,000 Hoosier Cup and already has racked up over $250,000 this season in just nine starts. The second sophomore colt division is race 12 and Illinois champion Power Of A Moment (7-5 in the morning line) looks to get back on the winning track with Brandon Simpson at his lines for the Erv Miller Stable. Brandon will also handle the stable’s Mystical Victress (3-1) in the second $22,400 Hanover for 3-year-old fillies. Simpson steered the filly to stakes triumphs in the Loyal Opposition and Sarah Myers at Balmoral and Du Quoin’s First Lady in her freshman season. Violet champion Fox Valley Oracle (4-1, Casey Leonard) is among her toughest foes. Brandon is back in town tonight subbing for Marcus Miller who is sitting out the card, and others, because of a suspension by the Balmoral Park stewards for a recent driving infractation. Simpson also picked-up catches drives behind four John Butenschoen trained Hanover stake hopefuls and the Miller barn’s The Roman Conquest in race 14. The Miller Stable’s Cotton Candy (3-1, Dave Magee) rides a four-race winning streak into the second $22,400 Hanover for sophomore fillies that includes the $100,000 Maywood Filly Pace. Rev Me Up (4-1, Mike Oosting) with over $111,000 on her card for the season, is among her eight challengers and Kathy Millman trainee comes off a 1:52.1 lifetime best mile in a July 4 ISOBA stake. To view Archived Notes and Quotes click here. County Fair Report The one-day Mercer County Fair at Aledo saw six Mid-Western Illinois Racing Association events decided on a track rated “good.” The $2,327 MWIRA 2-Year-Old Filly Pace division was a five-length romp in the opener for Cuzimademymindup and driver-trainer Tom Simmons while in the $1,957 freshman colt division Juxasport had to work a little harder for driver-trainer Jay Garrels to gain a one and 1 and ¼ length decision. The filly is the younger sister of recent Maywood Filly Pace champion Cotton Candy . . . Two $1,356 MWIRA 3-year-old trots were raced with Francis Greer’s Teter Chip (Alan Bowen) eking out a nose victory over Steve Searle’s Fox Valley Genuine in the first and Fox Valley Flare having an easier time with a front-end two-length win in the second with John Roberts for owner Christine Koeppen . . . Cooper Doll (Tom Busse) drew off by three-plus lengths in the $2,946 freshman colt division, following her win at the Henry fair while April Brook stayed hot by rattling off her fourth consecutive fair circuit triumph in 2:02.2 with Tom Walker with a reported 25.1 last quarter . . . Rick Schrock took the Erv Miller Stable’s His Eminence to the front and he never looked back with his 1:59.4 clocking, over three lengths the best. The Sportsmaster colt won races back in May at Freehold and Yonkers. MERCER COUNTY FAIR AT ALEDO Wednesday, July 14 Results FIRST: MWIRA 2-Year-Old Filly Pace, Purse $2,327: SECOND: MWIRA 2-Year-Old Colt Pace, Purse $1,937: THIRD: MWIRA 3-Year-Old Filly Trot, Purse $1,356: FOURTH: MWIRA 3-Year-Old Trot, Purse $1,356: FIFTH: MWIRA 3-Year-Old Trot, Purse $2, 946: SIXTH: MWIRA 3-Year-Old Filly Pace, Purse $1,833: SEVENTH: MWIRA 3-Year-Old Colt Pace, Purse $1,903:
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