All Speed Hanover headlines NJ Classic

All Speed Hanover, one of the top 2-year-old colts of 2009, was installed the 2-1 favorite in the $500,000 Anthony Abbatiello New Jersey Classic on Saturday, June 12 at Meadowlands Racetrack.
 
The New Jersey Classic for 3-year-old colt and gelding pacers tops $1.1 million in stakes for New Jersey-sired horses Saturday evening.  Carded as race six (post time: 8:40 p.m.), the New Jersey Classic shares the spotlight with the companion $175,000 Thomas D'Altrui Miss New Jersey for fillies and a pair of $200,000 New Jersey Sire Stakes Championships for trotters.  The New Jersey Classic and Miss New Jersey are sponsored by the Standardbred Breeders and Owners Association of New Jersey and named for two of its founding members. 
 
In his second start of the season, All Speed Hanover came first up to stop BG's Folly at the wire in their New Jersey Classic elimination on June 5.  Driven by Ron Pierce, All Speed Hanover was clocked in 1:50.4 as he vaulted past the $500,000 career earnings mark.  At two, the son of Cam's Card Shark won five of seven starts, including the $700,000 Breeders Crown Championship.  Only twice has a freshman Breeders Crown winner come back at age three to win the New Jersey Classic.  If All Speed Hanover is successful Saturday, he will join the elite company of Jenna's Beach Boy (1995) and Bettors Delight (2001).  The colt will start from post four in the New Jersey Classic Final.
 
"He was a fantastic 2-year-old and he came back this year even better," Pierce noted.  "I can't see this horse getting beat."
 
Noel Daley trains the colt for Adam Victor & Son Stable of New York, NY and John Fielding of Toronto, Ontario.  He is pointing All Speed Hanover toward the track's signature event, the $1 million Meadowlands Pace on July 17.  All Speed Hanover is also eligible to Canada's premier event for pacers, the North America Cup on June 26.
 
"Everything is right on schedule with him," Daley said.  "He's been spot on.  He doesn't need a trip [in a race] and you don't have to look after him.  You don't want to be first over every start either, but with him there are less worries than with other horses.  Our main focus for him is the North America Cup, and then the Meadowlands Pace."
 
"We are more excited at this point with him than we've ever been with any other horse at this time of year, pacer or trotter," added the colt's co-owner Adam Victor Jr.  "No horse we've ever had has trained down as well between two and three.  He's come back sound, has a sterling pedigree, great conformation and his attitude is super."
 
Valentino, the other New Jersey Classic elimination winner, is rated as the 4-1 second choice from post two for driver George Brennan and trainer Lou Pena.  The son of Rocknroll Hanover rushed up the inside to best Allthatgltrsisgold by a nose in 1:50.3 last week.  Valentino enters the New Jersey Classic Final with a record of three wins in 12 career starts for Glenn Berger's Lightning Stable of Roosevelt, NJ.
 
The field for the $500,000 Anthony Abbatiello New Jersey Classic:
 
PP, Horse, Sire, Driver, Trainer, ML
1, Classic Rock Nroll, Rocknroll Hanover, John Campbell, Larry Remmen, 15-1
2, Valentino, Rocknroll Hanover, George Brennan, Lou Pena, 4-1
3, Allthatgltrsisgold, Cam's Card Shark, Dave Magee, Bobby Brower, 8-1
4, All Speed Hanover, Cam's Card Shark, Ron Pierce, Noel Daley, 2-1
5, Piece Of The Rock, Rocknroll Hanover, John Campbell, Ron Coyne Jr., 10-1
6, BG's Folly, Rocknroll Hanover, Brian Sears, George Berkner, 5-1
7, Shoobee's Place, Artsplace, David Miller, Richard Norman, 10-1
8, World Of Rocknroll, Rocknroll Hanover, Tim Tetrick, Richard Norman, 6-1
9, BJ's Bequia, Rocknroll Hanover, Daniel Dube, Jeff Webster, 20-1
10, Foreign Officer, Western Ideal, Yannick Gingras, Tony Alagna, 15-1

(Meadowlands)

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