Volume Eight, the 2022 Dan Patch Award Winner as two-year-old trotting colt of the year, has added a familiar face to his ownership group in advance of his three-year-old season.
Trotting stallion Bar Hopping, the sire of 2021 Dan Patch Award-winner and Hambletonian Oaks champion Bella Bellini among others, passed away unexpectedly Monday at Hanover Shoe Farms, where he stood since retiring from racing in 2016. He was nine.