Elimination fields drawn

Eliminations for $4.3 million in Breeders Crown championships for 2- and 3-year-old trotters and pacers headline opening weekend of the 2005 fall harness meet at the Meadowlands Racetrack.



The eight Breeders Crown finals--$610,000 3-Year-Old Colt Trot, $500,000 3-Year-Old Filly Trot, $555,000 3-Year-Old Colt Pace, $500,000 3-Year-Old Filly Pace, $507,600 2-Year-Old Colt Trot, $516,800 2-Year-Old Filly Trot, $575,400 2-Year-Old Colt Pace and $500,000 2-Year-Old Filly Pace--will be contested Saturday night, Nov. 26, at the Meadowlands.



Eliminations for 3-year-old trotters and 3-year-old filly pacers will be raced on Friday and eliminations for 3-year-old colt pacers and all 2 year olds will be Saturday. Elimination winners may pick their post position for the finals.



Vivid Photo, whose 16 victories this season include the $1.5 million Hambletonian, will try to secure divisional honors with a victory in the $610,000 Three-Year-Old Colt and Gelding Trot. Driver, trainer and co-owner Roger Hammer and co-owner Todd Schadel paid $62,500 to supplement the gelding to the Breeders Crown. He drew post two in the ninth race, the second of two eliminations on Friday night.



Divisional rivals Rocknroll Hanover and American Ideal will face off in the second of two eliminations for the $500,000 Three-Year-Old Colt Pace on Saturday night. American Ideal has landed post two while Rocknroll Hanover will start from post six in the evening's ninth race. In their last meeting at the Meadowlands, American Ideal bested Rocknroll Hanover by nearly six lengths in the $130,000 Oliver Wendell Holmes on Hambletonian day.



American Ideal's 1:47.4 victory in the Bluegrass at the The Red Mile, which stamped him the fastest 3-year-old pacer in history, made the decision to supplement the colt to the Breeders Crown an easy one for trainer Casie Coleman and owners Mac Nichol and Brittany Farms. American Ideal has won 10 of his 20 starts this year for $764,955 in purse money.



Trained by Brett Pelling, Rocknroll Hanover enters the Breeders Crown with $1.9 million in seasonal earnings aided by victories in the $1 million Meadowlands Pace, $1.2 million North America Cup and $500,000 SBOA/New Jersey Classic. The son of Western Ideal is owned by Jeff Snyder, Audrey Campbell's Lothlorien Equestrian Center and Bill Perretti's Perretti Racing Stable.



Pelling and Snyder's "other" superstar 3-year-old colt pacers, Village Jolt and Cam's Fool, top the field for the sixth race elimination. Village Jolt, a winner of $1.6 million lifetime, counts the Adios at The Meadows and a heat of the Little Brown Jug among his five wins this season. He was also the runner-up in the $1 million Meadowlands Pace. He will start from post one while entrymate Cam's Fool has drawn post six.

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