Ticket To Rock sets NJSS record

Ticket To Rock took the lead with a :26.4 opening quarter mile and coasted to a record-setting 1:52.3 victory Saturday in the $100,000 New Jersey Sire Stakes Premier Division Championship final for 3-year-old pacing fillies at Freehold Raceway.

 

With David Miller driving, the daughter of Rocknroll Hanover, won by 4 3/4 lengths over Rockn Highland (Rocknroll Hanover), as By Your Side (Western Ideal) finished third.

 

The sophomore filly’s record-setting performance erased the previous mark of 1:53.1 established in 2005 by JK Songndance and matched four more times, twice in 2008 by Happy Dreamer.

 

It was the fourth consecutive and seventh win overall in 12 starts this year for Ticket To Rock, owned by the Jack Darling Stables and trained by Casie Coleman. With the $50,000 winner’s share of the purse, the filly has now earned $186,034 this year and $421,495 in her career.

 

In other NJ-sired action, I Kill Time (Western Ideal) in 1:56.4 and Myluvmylife (Rocknroll Hanover) in 1:57 won elimination races for the 2-year-old filly division final of the Lou Babic Memorial Pace on Sept. 2 at Freehold. Also, making the final were three fillies by Rocknroll Hanover, Kill A Rockingbird, Rocknroll Leah and Pot Limit, and three by Western Ideal, Show The World, Dutch’s Gal and Ideals Oath. (NJSS)