Hanover Weekend Concludes (07/18/10)

Posted Sunday, July 18, 2010

                                                                          By Mike Paradise

  The Hanover Saga for this weekend comes to a conclusion Sunday night with two extra-large stake divisions. Both $28,250 Hanover events for three-year-old trotting colts and geldings landed 11 starters in each, so we’ll have a trailer in each.

  Just as in Saturday’s Hanover’s for 2 and 3-year-old pacers when Illinois owned and or breds horses more than held their own, a good portion of the added money on Sunday night could stay in the prairie state. Last night four of the six Hanover freshman stakes went to ICF pacers and our state-breds also swept all four Hanover splits for sophomores.

  Both of Sunday’s Hanover divisions for second season male trotters appear to be wide-open affairs.

   The seventh race first division has the Illinois division leader Showmeyourstuff starting in the second tier (p.p. 11) with driver Bob Smolin and will open up as a luke-warm 7-2 morning line choice. . The home bred son of Armbro American has shown he can get it done racing up close or from behind, though. Among his four victories this season was the $46,500 Cardinal on June 16 for trainer Jerald Viviani who shares ownership of the gelding with his wife Donna and Sue Phillips, all of Charleston, Illinois.

  The leading money-earner in the race is the Like A Prayer chestnut colt Quantum Lightning (9-2) who banked over $127,000 last year. He picked up a nice chunk of that amount when he dropped a photo in the $300,000 Kentucky Sire Stakes with Sunday’s regular driver Brad Hanners.

  Bobby Browner’s Defend The Rock (6-1, Dave Magee) is an Indiana invader who rattled off five straight wins before his fourth place finish a week ago at Hoosier. The Doug Ackerman Stable’s Great Emancipator (4-1, Brad Kramer) is another five-time winner this season, his last in Canada at Georgian Downs.

  Other Illinois beds in the first split are recent Brandenburg stake winner Big Bucks (8-1, Casey Leonard), the third place finisher M A Cody (12-1, Mike Oosting) and last month’s ISOBA victor Muscatine (10-1, Dale Hiteman).

  The ninth race second Hanover division 9-2 second morning line favorite is the Dan Shetler Stable’s Mo Muscles, currently riding a five-race winning streak. The gelding is a son of Muscles Yankee and he’s out of the Garland Lobell dam Garland’s Princess. When he sold for $37,000 as a yearling his name was Box Of Budgies.

  You have to like that name change.

  Only Mo Muscles, PASS stake winner B Winner K (7-2 programmed choice, Brad Hanners) and the Ackerman’s Thro Time (5-1, Brad Kramer) haven’t done any of their season campaigning at Balmoral.

  The Illinois owned or bred contingent is made up of Martoddi (8-1, Dave Magee), Powerful Speed (6-1, Todd Warren), Run And Tell Pap (8-1, Mike Cox), Hokey Pokey (15-1, Mike Oosting), Big Sky Revenue (10-1, Dale Hiteman), Wolf Creek Pass (12-1, Brian Carpenter) and Super Sonic Flash (20-1, Casey Leonard).

  My price shot is last year’s American National freshman champion Run And Tell Pap who finished full of trot last week and looks very capable with a flat mile.

                                                                                                                            Balmoral Park Photo

   Voomerang (No. 1, Mike Oosting) eged out Power Of A Moment (inside with Brandon Simpson) in Saturday's second Hanover stake for 3-year-old pacing males. with a career best 1:50.2 mile.

  Amateur Race On Tap: Early arrivals to Balmoral Sunday will get a chance to watch a Mid-Western Amateur Drivers Association non-wagering event. It has a 6:05 pm scheduled post. Lining up in posts one through four, in that order, are Sugar Bunny with Mariyah Mulvey, Tinkers Damn with Jordan Knicley, Harmony Oaks Cole with Jay Hochstetler and Dov Bears Dream with Ryan Welch.

     
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