Odds On Racing - Harness Racing

2004 In Review

Windsongs Legacy

First Trotter to win Triple Crown in 32 YEARS & won all six finals he competed in.
Broke Malabar Man's single season money mark. No horse in history has averaged more money per start than he--with $145,000 per race.

Rainbow Blue

Established single season filly money record. Only filly ever with two sub 1:50 winning race miles. 20 for 21 on the year. No filly has ever had that many wins in a Horse of the Year season.

2004 Record-setting day
September 4 at Duquoin Tom Ridge trotted in 1:51, 1:50.2, while at Mohawk Cabrini Hanover was timed in 1:51; Rocknroll Hanover 1:49.4; Casimir Camotion 1:48.3.

Retirement Day
October 9, 2004 atThe Red Mile. All of the following either raced for the last time or were retired at the Red Mile on this day. Four Starzzz Shark; Eternal Camnation; Bunny Lake; Stroke Play and
Windsongs Legacy. This group has $12.3 million in career earnings.

First Time For Everything in 2004
Ron Pierce won his first Meadowlands title, his first national money title and had his first 400 win season. The first $100 horse in the 28 year history of the Meadowlands Pace-$119.00 for Holborn Hanover. The first sub 1:50 freshman in the sports history of 1:49.4 was Rock N Roll Hanover.

Born To Page (in the same month)
April 3, 1997 Eternal Camnation born; April 28, 1997 Gallo Blue Chip born.
They would go on to become the richest pacing female in the sports history, the richest pacing male in the sports history and the two richest pacers EVER!

Getting There In A Hurry

John Campbell: 1978-$748,096 & not ranked in top 25. 1979-$3,308,984 #1 in all North America.Brian Sears:2002-$2,941,101 Not ranked in top 25 2003-$5,025,281 Ranked #11 nationally. 2004-$9.5 million #2 in North America.

Double Threats
Patrick Lachance & Trond Smedshammer. Both Made over $2.5 million driving & training in 2004. Trond ($5.3 million) is the youngest of the six trainers who have won Trottings Triple Crown (37). Patrick and his father Mike became the only father-son team in harness racing history to each drive a winner of a $500,000 race in the same year: Casimir Camotion-Patrick-Canadian Pacing Derby and Four Starzzz Shark-Mike-William Haughton Memorial.

2004--A Record Setting Year for Pacing Colts & Geldings
This has indeed been a record-shattering season for the pacing colts and geldings. The following is a closer look at the INCREDIBLE 31 sophomore miles in UNDER 1:50 that were recorded this year--easily an industry single season best. And this does NOT include the 1:49.4 Rockn Roll Hanover, the FIRST sub 1:50 freshman in the sports history (9/4/04 at Mohawk in the Metro)

The sub 1:50 pacing Class of 2004:
Georgia Pacific posted his 6th sub 1:50 mile (1:49.1) in winning the Matron on December 6-a world record for a soph gelding on the 5/8ths. The sub 1:50 winning effort by this son of Western Hanover gives him half a dozen-previously unchartered waters for ANY 3 YO ever!

Five of the 31 miles saw the winner post a 26 second or 26 second and change final quarter. Ron Pierce is the only driver to do this with both a filly and a colt. Rainbow Blue posted two sub 1:50 miles-both 1:49.2 world record equaling efforts-to become the first female to ever have a pair of these sub 1:50 winning race miles.(Colts-Circle L Kid-Geartofear-twice and Timesareachanging)

Apple Krisp joined Rainbow Blue as the only other filly under 1:50. 1:49.4, which was set at the Meadowlands, in a June 18 NJSS for $31,000. That equaled the track standard originally set by Armbro Romance on June 27, 1998.

Ten of the sub 1:50 sophomore miles were done in a $100,000 or richer race. The richest-the $1 million Meadowlands Pace was won in 1:49 by Holborn Hanover. The cheapest-$10,000-both Georgia Pacific (1:49.3-8/28/04 in a Preferred Handicap) and Santastics Pan (1:49.3 $10,000 pot also at the Meadows-in a PASS-9/4/04)

Geartogear has the unusual distinction of having THREE of the same 1:49.4 miles.

Perfect World sent out a record four sub 1:50 perfomers: Geartogear 1:49.4 three times; Rapid Dialing 1:49.1; Timesareachanging 1:48.4; Western Terror 1:48.3. That's seven total miles in under 1:50 for Perfect World

Brett Pelling became the first trainer to ever have a pair of sub 1:49 sophomores in the same year: Western Terror (1:48.3) and Timesareachanging (1:48.4). The 1:48.4 Pace elimination set by Timesareachanging is the all-time best for the elim, final or consolation.

Jennas Beach Boy (1:47.3 world race record-6/22/96) and Quik Pulse Mindale are the only father and son to each have a 1:48 or better mark. And they are the only father and son to each have a sub 1:49 sophomore mark. Jennas Beach Boy was the first to better the 1:49 mark at age three, pacing in 1:48.4 on September 30, 1995 at the Red Mile. Quik Pulse Mindale won in a season's best sophomore effort of 1:48 at Balmoral on September 25, 2004.

First sub 1:50 sophomore mile of 2004 was in 1:49.4 on May 15 by Spirit Of A Shark, while the last sub 1:50 sophomore mile of 1:49.1 came on December 6 by Georgia Pacific. The 1:49.2 set by Maltese Artist at the Meadowlands on June 26 was the FASTEST ever New Jersey Sire Stake mile in the 34-year history of the richest of all-state-bred programs.

The Meadowlands had the MOST sub 1:50 sophomore miles, with 12 total. Ten different tracks had at least one sub 1:50 mile by a three-year-old. Two African American trainers made this list: George Teague, Jr. with Rainbow Blue and Deshawn Minor with Rapid Dialing.