Odds On Racing - Harness Racing

Top Trotters & Pacers Vie in Big M Opener

January 6, 2007

Lhasa Muscles and Miss Galvinator A extended their winning streaks, each capturing a $35,000 winners-over event, the co-features on Friday night at the Meadowlands. Lhasa Muscles posted his fifth straight win in the third race for top level trotters, getting up for a neck victory over Carie's Credit in 1:53.4. It was a length back to CR Dream Catcher in third.

Lhasa Muscles, a six-year-old son of Muscles Yankee, was driven to victory by Cat Manzi. The Ross Croghan trainee picked up his 20th career victory with 14 seconds and 11 thirds from 61 starts, and pushed his lifetime bankroll over the $350,000 mark. The 2006 Father Foley Series winner races in the name of the Let It Ride Stables of Delray Beach, Florida; Stake Your Claim 3 of Secaucus, New Jersey and Shari Watchman of Colts Neck, New Jersey.

Miss Galvinator held on for a head victory over the pylon-skimming Up Front Dragonfly in the pacing mares feature, the fifth race. It was a length to Nanny Withafanny in third. Miss Galvinator made her tenth straight trip to the winner's circle and matched her career best of 1:51 for the mile.

Yannick Gingras was in the sulky as the eight-year-old Australian-bred daughter of Fake Left improved her career totals to 45 wins in 120 career starts for earnings of $462,411. She was acquired by Richard Annunziata of Mahopac, New York, on January 10, 2005 and is trained by his father, Ettore Annunziata.