The photos, dozens of horse images that hang on the 17-year-old’s bedroom walls, take on more meaning with each new day. Every time Anna Tucciarone opens the door, turns on the light and sees the photos, any stresses in her life, big or small, immediately wash away.
“There haven’t been a lot of things to look forward to because of the pandemic,” started the soft-spoken high school student from Mississauga, Ontario. “But the horses, they always bring you up if you are feeling down.”
Some of the horses she speaks of are in fact, her horses.
Along with her father, Jon, Tucciarone currently owns shares of eight Standardbred racehorses through TheStable.ca, a fractional ownership group created by Anthony MacDonald and his wife, Amy, in 2015.
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After having to cancel its first seasonal leg last week due to unsafe track conditions this years NAADA Trotting Series finally got underway with two $8,000 legs Monday at Yonkers Raceway and when the judges posted the official signs John Calabrese and Matt Zuccarello each emerged victorious in their respective splits.
Calabrese s victory came behind the veteran Cantab Hall gelding when Calabrese darted Dark Pool to the lead from the pole position and after being overcome by Golden Kronos (Tony Ciuffetelli) Calabrese quickly retook command after the quarter was trotted in :28.4. And once on top Calabrese played catch me if you can and no one in the short five-horse field could as Calabrese kept the pedal to the metal and the field lined-up behind him.
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Street Gossip was a model of consistency in 2020, hitting the board in all eight of his starts earning him 2020 Ohio Two-Year-Old Trotting Colt of the Year honours.
Street Gossip, a son of Cash Hall out of the Yankee Glide mare The Young Princess, won four out of his eight races and collected a pair of second- and third-place finishes for trainer Virgil Morgan Jr. and owner Carl Howard and the Jesmeral Stables, earning $171,761.
Street Gossip was purchased in July by Howard and Jesmeral Stable after a third-place finish in a leg of the Ohio Sires Stakes. “I saw him racing in his first sire stakes race at Northfield Park. He was very competitive,” Morgan said. “I was elated once we got him. To see how good gaited he was and that we really had something to work with.”