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Machnhope and Shnitzledosomethin proved toughest of all in their respective $22,500 Winners-Over pacing features on Sunday (June 6) at Harrah s Philadelphia, both upending favourites on their way to victory.
In the afternoon s featured event for fillies and mares, Blue Chip Matchmaker winner Machnhope made a sustained push to the fore, clearing Eclipse Me N just beyond a :26.2 first quarter. After Andy McCarthy rated the six-year-old daughter of Mach Three through a :55.2 midway breather, she dug in to fend off sustained outside pressure from Marloe Hanover up the backstretch and through the far turn. Not only did Machnhope have enough to parry eventual third-place finisher Marloe Hanover s bid, but she also kept a late charge from Eclipse Me N three-quarters of a length at bay to score in 1:50.1. Odds-on choice Lyons Sentinel only mustered a fourth-place finish after tracking live cover into the far turn.
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Large purses are again for the taking at The Meadowlands, with this Saturday’s (May 15) program highlighted by a pair of Graduate preliminaries and the $141,250 Arthur J. Cutler Memorial.
The Cutler Memorial, the second high-prize trot on the calendar, drew a stacked field of 10 mixed with heavy hitters of yester season and those trying to break through into the big leagues.
Forbidden Trade, the 2019 Hambletonian winner, makes his first start since Aug. 2020. The now five-year-old stallion by Kadabra scratched from the John Cashman Jr. Memorial last season before sustaining an injury that sidelined him the rest of the year. Driver Bob McClure reunites with the millionaire Luc Blais trainee wide of all his competition from post 10.
Trainer Nancy Takter has had a number of world champions in her barn over the years, so what’s one more?
Takter recently added the Ohio-bred Ocean Rock to her stable roster, with the Buckeye State’s 2020 Three-year-old Male Pacer of the Year sent her way this past winter by breeder-owner Sandra Burnett to compete on the East Coast, primarily in the Graduate Series.
The first leg of the Graduate Series for four-year-old pacers was contested on May 1 at The Meadowlands, with the second leg set for this Saturday (May 15) at the Big M. Ocean Rock will make his season’s debut in this week’s Graduate, and he’ll be joined by stablemate No Lou Zing in the first of two $50,000 Graduate divisions on the 14-race program.
The Meadowlands Championship Meet escalates quickly with several important stakes this weekend.
Friday features the first leg of the New Jersey Sires Stakes (NJSS) for the sophomore set. The first of three eight horse $25,000 divisions for colts and geldings kicks off the card and will serve as the stage for the Meadowlands debut of the intriguing Trixton colt Cuatro De Julio.
A homebred, owned by legendary French horseman Jean Pierre Dubois as D Farm, LLC, Cuatro De Julio comes from humble beginnings. He began his career on the dusty Kentucky fair circuit where local horseman Al Efferstein patiently instilled early lessons while guiding him to several victories for trainer Marie Ortolan Bar.