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Bob's Bits....from Bob "Hollywood" Heyden....notes on the Super Bowl Final

January 24, 2005

This is the $71,035 eighth edition of the Super Bowl for all 4 Year Olds, with four of the ten
wearing trotting hobbles. Two mares are in the 2005 final: R Royal Belle (#1)-a granddaughter of Super Bowl (Royal Troubador), as well as another granddaughter of the winner of 38-50 lifetime starts, the 1972 Triple Crown-winning Super Bowl-Worthwaiting (#9) for (Tagliabue). Two mares captured this same event in previous years: In 1998-the first edition-Emerald Seelster and in 2003 Lady O War.

Valley Victory (Rumsfeld-#2) sired the 2000 winner Yankee McCoy, while Muscles Yankee is the ONLY sire with three in the final. He is the two-time defending leading trotting sire in all of North America.

FIVE states represented in ownership: New Jersey with four, Virginia with three, Rhode Island, New York, and Illinois each have one apiece.

"M & M"s anyone?? Misty Miller-The owner-trainer. Malabar Man-the sire: of (#4) Malltese Malcom-the horse.

Syl King, Jr. trained Field Trip (#6), who won last week with Dan Dube in the sulky. Syl is one of the pioneer trainers at the Meadowlands, having sent out horses since day one. Here's a look at his record the first 6 seasons at the Big M. (1976) 17 0-3-3 $17,445;
(1977) 5 0-1-0 $7,963; (1978) 35 3-1-2 $32,932; (1979) 47 4-1-4 $39,714; (1980) 51 2-6-4 $38,600; (1981) 2 0-0-0 $0.