Published in Harness Racing Update by Bob Hayden On Jug Day, Sept. 19, 1999, JET LAAG, a 6-year-old son of Laag trained by Linda Toscano for Ira Schwartz, Alan Minkoff and the Zooming By Stable, scorched his way around Delaware’s half-miler in 1:49 winning the Senior Jug by 12 lengths. That was two-fifths faster than…
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 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…
17 Aug 2024, from Ken Weingartner, USTA Media Relations Manager CAPTAIN ALBANO (CAPTAINTREACHEROUS) moved to the outside from the pocket coming off the final turn and got to favourite Legendary Hanover just prior to the wire to win Saturday’s $300,000 Max C. Hempt Memorial for 3-year-old pacers by a nose in 1:48.3 at Mohegan Pennsylvania’s…
18 Aug 2024, from Steve Wolf, Quebec Jockey Club With one of the gutsiest performances of his career, 14-1 REDWOOD HANOVER (STAY HUNGRY) and driver Jonathan Drury wore down Huntinthelastdolar in the stretch to capture the C$200,000 Prix d’Ete for four-year-old pacers Sunday at the Hippodrome 3R. It was the 33 edition of the Prix…
12 Aug 2024, from Standardbred Canada Driver James MacDonald and trainer Anthony Beaton combined for one of their many wins on Friday, Aug. 9 at Woodbine Mohawk Park with two-year-old pacing filly AU JUS HANOVER (STAY HUNGRY) spoiling the favourite’s chances at a series sweep of the Whenuwishuponastar. In the $68,000 series final carded as…