Published 19 September 2024, Standardbred Canada CAPTAIN ALBANO (CAPTAINTREACHEROUS) prevailed off a perfect pocket trip in the final heat to capture the 79th edition of the Little Brown Jug, the third leg of Pacing’s Triple Crown, on Thursday, Sept. 19 at Delaware County Fairgrounds. Driver Todd McCarthy engineered back-to-back winning trips in rein to the Noel Daley-trained…
A big week for CAPTAINTREACHEROUS this week in both hemispheres!The headline is undoubtedly three-year-old colt Captain Albano winning the $525,000 2024 Little Brown Jug at Delaware in a clean sweep after posting 1:49.2 to claim the elimination earlier on the card ahead of Captain Luke, with the other elimination won by another CAPTAIN colt in…
Look at CAPTAINTREACHEROUS go – nine winners from the last few days, and three big race elimination winners in Canada! His more mature horses are really hitting the big numbers while the babies are coming along very nicely… Ruby Roe (bred by F & K Price) lead a CAPTAIN quinella at Oamaru in a heat…
Both at home and overseas our superbly-bred sire STAY HUNGRY has recorded more outstanding results this week. The son of SOMEBEACHSOMEWHERE had a small debut crop in Australia of just 46 but from those he has had eleven winners from 23 starters, the latest being the Durham Park-bred colt FASTING who clocked 1:53.9 at Menangle…
Another massive week for STAY HUNGRY with an eleventh two-year-old winner at Menangle in colt Fasting (bred by V & B Hancock and M Allamby) who clocked 1:53.9 in his racetrack debut and in North America a slew of results on the east coast. At Pocono Downs, STAY HUNGRY three-year-olds took $50,000 Pennsylvania Sires Stakes…
8 September 2024, from Tony Milanese The brilliant but unpredictable CATCH A WAVE (CAPTAINTREACHEROUS) was on his best behaviour to take out the time honoured $150,000 Group 1 TAB Len Smith Mile at Menangle Park. Less fancied than his harness racing opponents in a star studded field CATCH A WAVE was caught three wide early…
8 September 2024, from Ray Cotolo & Frank Cotolo, and The Meadowlands. CAPTAIN OPTIMISTIC (CAPTAINTREACHEROUS) and driver Yannick Gingras and ROCKET DEO (CAPTAINTREACHEROUS) won their $150,000 New Jersey Classic Finals for two-year-old colt and three-year-old filly pacers, respectively, at The Meadowlands on Friday night (Sept. 6). CAPTAIN OPTIMISTIC, the prohibitive favorite at 1-9, floated off…
What a huge couple of days for our boys! STAY HUNGRY gelding Snowiewillrev extended his unbeaten streak to four when he secured the 2024 2YO C&G Sweepstakes Final at Hobart, while in North America his three-year-old son De La Hoya Hanover took the $40,000 Stallion Series Final at Harrah’s Philadelphia in 1:51.4. CAPTAINTREACHEROUS though –…
A second win for the exciting son of STAY HUNGRY, Stay Foolish at Bathurst this week added to the North American two-year-old result for our sire in Joel And The Jets who claimed the $50,000 Pennsylvania Sire Stakes Consolation in 1:52.1 at The Meadows. Also flying at The Red Mile were TALL DARK STRANGER sons…
It’s been a big few days for CAPTAINTREACHEROUS! With the richest harness race in the world coming up next weekend, the dominant sire has THREE runners named – Captains Knock, this Saturday’s Discovery Stakes winner Sure Thing Captain (1:54, Menangle) and Vicbred 4YO E&G heat winner High Above who secured his second consecutive win in…