Calgary Hanover in to go

May 15, 2007

Calgary Hanover, winner of the Breeders Crown at two, will make her 2007 debut in Friday night�s opening round of the New Jersey Sire Stakes for 3-year-old pacing fillies at the Meadowlands. A total of 19 New Jersey-sired fillies drew into two divisions for the first of three preliminary legs that will lead to a $175,000 final on June 22.

Calgary Hanover headlines the second division, carded as the sixth race, in which 10 fillies will compete for a purse of $36,000 while a nine-filly division, the first race, features Artcotic, the New Jersey Sire Stakes Two-Year-Old Filly of 2006, vying for $35,400.

Calgary Hanover, a bay daughter of Western Ideal�Campaign Leader, banked $372,635 last year with three wins, six seconds and two thirds from 12 starts. Her last start of 2006 resulted in a quarter-length victory over Little Miss Dragon in the $600,000 Breeders Crown Final at Woodbine at odds of 13-1.

�Everybody was so shocked,� said trainer Don Swick. �But if you went down through her lines, her second line back at Lexington, she paced a last quarter in :25.4. How did she win [the Breeders Crown], well, why shouldn�t she win?�

Some of what makes Calgary Hanover hard to figure is how she acts on the track. �She�s sort of a slow starter,� said Swick. �Last year she was close, but it takes her a while to get her engine fired up. She acts like it will take her a while this year, too.

�Training her down, she was just terrible,� he recalled. �Even now I hate jogging her. It takes forever. She won�t jog fast, and she won�t train fast. She�s just one of those laid back creatures that has to get motivated. I was a little disappointed last week [in her qualifier], not so much by the time--they paced a fast last quarter in :27--but I was disappointed that she let a horse go by. But it was on her Murphy blind side so maybe she just didn�t see it.�

Hall of Fame driver Mike Lachance fits the filly well, according to Swick, explaining that the filly needs a lot of urging to do her best.

A $27,000 Lexington Select yearling purchase, Calgary Hanover races in the name of William Peshina�s Royal Wire Products Inc. of North Royalton, Ohio, and Robert Marzoli�s United Process Control Company of Somerville, NJ.

�We�ll race her in the New Jersey Sire Stakes, the Miss New Jersey and then Tarport Hap and Mistletoe Shalee,� said Swick, who is stabled at Magical Acres in Chesterfield, NJ. �Then we�ll hold her over and get her ready for the fall meet at Lexington.�

The field for the $35,400 first division of the New Jersey Sires Stakes for 3-year-old pacing fillies, first race on Friday, May 18 at the Meadowlands [from the rail out with listed driver]: Lady Mattgalane, Ron Pierce; Weekie Wachie, Ron Pierce; Western Bonbon, Mike Lachance; Artcotic, Ron Pierce; Kisskissbangbang, Cat Manzi, Lightning D Dube, Daniel Dube; Southwind Rio, David Miller; Pick Up, Daniel Dube, and Artistic Ideal, Ron Pierce.

The field for the $36,000 second division of the New Jersey Sires Stakes for 3-year-old pacing fillies, sixth race on Friday, May 18, at the Meadowlands [from the rail out with listed driver]: Current Hanover, George Brennan; Career Artist, Brian Sears; Cupcakecraze, John Campbell; Platinum Hanover, Andy Miller; Calgary Hanover, Mike Lachance; Ideal Sunrise, Andy Miller; Speed Date, Andy Miller; Striptease Hall, Brian Sears; Mr Deli�s Filly, Yannick Gingras, and Spring Break, Mike Lachance. (NJSS0

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