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Career Victory #5,000 For Brennan

Friday Night at The Big M

April 6, 2007

George Brennan wasted no time in locking up his 5,000th career win on Friday night at the Meadowlands. Brennan steered Carolina Raider to a 1:55.4 score in the first race, reaching the 5,000-win plateau just two weeks shy of his 50th birthday.

The Perrineville, New Jersey resident approaches his April 20 birthday with $70 million in career earnings. He currently ranks fourth in the Meadowlands driver standings with 69 victories and has finished in the Top 5 for eight of the last 10 years.

Brennan began driving in Goshen, New York at age 14 and scored his first pari-mutuel win at Monticello Raceway while still a junior in high school. He drove in Maine and Massachusetts before moving to the New Jersey circuit in late 1994 and first appeared on the national map in 1995 as the driver of two-year-old pacing divisional champs A Stud Named Sue and Chippie's Ruler. His meteoric rise continued in 1996 when he won the $1 million Meadowlands Pace with Hot Lead at the age of 29.

Brennan has ranked among the Top 25 drivers in North America in purses won each year since 1996.

In 1998, Brennan won his first two Breeders Crowns, with Juliets Fate and
Galleria at Colonial Downs. He would later add his third Breeders Crown in
2005, winning with Loyal Opposition in Canada. Brennan’s luck with distaffers
is uncanny - he has won the Sweetheart four times in the last eight years, along
with the 2004 Hambletonian Oaks with Silver Springs.

Brennan had his best earnings season yet in 2006 and added several records
to his resume. He lowered the world record for the fastest race mile of all
time to 1:46.4 with Holborn Hanover on Hambletonian Day. He also co-holds the
female world record of 1:48.4 with Loyal Opposition [tied with Carolina Sunshine
and Frightening P], meaning that Brennan is the only driver to lay claim to the
fastest male and female race miles of all time. His nine sub-1:49 miles and 23
sub-1:50s during the 2006 Meadowlands meet were all-time highs.

Brennan won an unprecedented 21 races over a two-day period, August 11-12,
2006, posting 11 wins at Freehold and 10 at the Meadowlands, including a
seven-winner night on August 11. He also picked up the Triple Crown- winning
drive behind 2006 Horse of the Year Glidemaster in the Yonkers Trot when
John Campbell was injured.