Muscle Mass wins Review-Greyhound in 1:53.4

Muscle Mass, a 2-year-old trotting colt by Muscles Yankee making just the second start of his life, lowered the world record for his age, sex and gait on a mile track by a full second with a 1:53.4 triumph in the $56,000 Review Greyhound at Springfield Tuesday afternoon.

Driven by Brent Holland Muscle Mass was used early to gain a pocket seat behind the pace setting Big Boy Lloyd and Mike Oosting, who took the field through fractions of :27.3, :55.2 and 1:24.4. Holland pulled from the pocket at the head of the stretch and got a jump on the field before stablemate Pine After Pine (Muscles Yankee) and Andy Miller closed deep in the stretch to make the finish tight.

“It (the trip) worked out ok,” Holland said. “I would rather of had a spot a little further back early, but it looked like there wasn’t going to be any holes. I knew I had a pretty good horse. I thought I’d keep going forward and I was hoping I could follow Mike (Oosting) around from there. He kept trotting fast and he dropped us off at the right spot. He got a jump on that other colt of Erv’s.”

Erv Miller trains both the first and second-place finishers. The winner is owned by Perretti Racing Stable and Black Horse Racing.

The time of the mile replaces the world mark of 1:54.4 set by Chocolatier at Lexington two years ago. The fastest mile by a 2-year-old colt trotter is 1:53.2 set by CR Commando in 1998 over the one-turn mile course at Colonial  Downs.

The Review Stakes for 2-year-old filly trotters went to Share The Promise and Dave Magee in 1:56.3, with Along The Way and Mike Lachance second.

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Both fillies are trained by Ron Gurfein. The winner, a daughter of Yankee Glide-Winky’s Goal, won for the second time in as many starts for owner Vandalay Racing.

In other Review Stakes, Johnny Charisma (Artiscape) and Oosting captured the Review-Orin Baker Memorial 3-year-old colt and gelding pace in 1:49.3, a career mark for the Ken Rucker-trained gelding owned by the Engle, Rucker, Penhellenic and Sheffield Stables; and State Of The Art (Artsplace) set a stakes record of 1:50 in the 3-year-old filly pace for Andy Miller, who was in the bike for trainer Erv Miller and owner Brittany Farms.

Andy Miller also set a record for the fastest mile by a Standardbred hitched to a high wheel sulky. Miller drove the pacer Life Guard On Duty to a 1:58.3 mile, which eclipsed the previous record of 2:04 set by Delvin Miller on Hambletonian Day at the Meadowlands in 1988 with a trotter.

Click for the catalog-style pedigree from the PaedigreeGuru of Muscle Mass or Share The Promise.      

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