Fields set for older Crowns

A compact group of North America’s richest and fastest pacers and trotters will contest the $1.9 million Breeders Crown Open events scheduled for Saturday, July 29, at the Meadowlands. The $500,000 Breeders Crown Pace drew 13 entries, enough to split into two $45,000 eliminations that will be raced on Saturday, July 22, to determine 10 starters for the final.

Elimination winners, in an order determined by lot, may choose their post position for the final.

The first elimination of eight, from the rail out, consists of:
1-Dr. No
2-Holborn Hanover
3-Mypanmar
4-He Wants It All
5-Casimir Camotion
6-Stonebridge Regal
7-Maltese Artist

In the second elimination, six go postward. From the rail out:
1-Leading X Ample
2-Hop Sing
3-P-Forty-Seven
4-Ponder
5-Boulder Creek
6-Lis Mara

No other eliminations were needed. Just nine older trotters entered the $800,000 Breeders Crown Trot. Sand Vic, the top-ranked trotter on the national harness racing poll, leads the group with four wins and two seconds in six starts. Last year’s Hambletonian winner Vivid Photo and defending Breeders Crown champ Strong Yankee, a pair that has compiled more than $3 million in purse money, will look to wrest control of the
division with a Crown title.

The complete field for the richest event for older trotters in North America in alphabetical order is: Corleone Kosmos, Elegant Man, Lawman, Muscles Marinara, Sand Vic, Sir Perseverance, Smooth Muscles, Strong Yankee and Vivid Photo.

Post positions will be drawn at a press conference at Gallagher’s in Manhattan on Tuesday, July 25.

The ease with which defending Crown champ Peaceful Way drew away from her peers in the Perretti Matchmaker stakes on July 14 at the Meadowlands may be why just six other trotting mares entered the $250,000 Mare Trot. In alphabetical order the mares entered are: Ecstatic, Godess Of Chaos, Lady Lifter, Mystical Sunshine, Peaceful Way, Three Little Words and Ticket To Glide.

On the pacing distaff side, 10 mares were entered the $331,500 Breeders Crown Mare Pace, which will also go directly to the final. The 10 entered include supplement Easton Alliance N, former Crown winners Burning Point and Restive Hanover, and Glowing Report, a winner of $1.5 million to date. In alphabetical order the mares entered are: Born Storyteller, Burning Point, Chotat Milk, Easton Alliance N, Glowing Report, KG Katriona, L Dee’s Val, Marnie Hall, Restive Hanover and Stonebridge Kisses.

The $1.9 Breeders Crown events will be raced on a special card with a 5 p.m. post-time to launch the 2006 Hambletonian Festival, annually the greatest week in harness racing. Also scheduled for that morning is the fourth annual Hambletonian Parade through the town of Rutherford. The special twilight card will feature eliminations for the Hambletonian and Hambletonian Oaks.

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