Odds On Racing - Harness Racing

Glazer's Hopes Rest with Mypanmar in Graduate Final
May 21, 2005

Mypanmar carries the colors of Bob Glazer's Peter Pan Stable in the $225,000
Graduate, the co-featured seventh race on Saturday night at the Meadowlands. All horses bred or purchased as yearlings by Robert Glazer's Peter Pan Stables of Pepper Pike, Ohio, find a "pan" in their name.

"He is the first foal out of the stakes winner Road To Pandalay, who I believe won the Champlain in her first pari-mutuel start," Glazer explained. "She came back at three and finished third to Armbro Romance and Galleria in a New Jersey Sire Stakes Final on a sloppy track, and she came up lame, never to race again. The name comes from the Republic of Myanmar [formerly Burma]. The city of Mandalay, from where Road To
Pandalay comes, is a city in central Myanmar."

Although he has four wins, a second and a third in six starts this year, Mypanmar is rated a 15-1 longshot in the morning line in the Graduate. The four-year-old Mypanmar is a Glazer homebred by another Peter Pan champion, The Panderosa, who won the '99 Meadowlands Pace and North America Cup.

"In my mind, there has never been any doubt regarding The Panderosa's offspring," said Glazer. "He was the leading first crop sire in 2003, behind only Western Hanover and Artsplace. He had a Breeders Crown winner in each of his first two crops [Pans Culottes and Restive Hanover], and from all indications, his offspring appear to get better with age, much like the Cam Fella offspring. His winners seem to come in all shapes and sizes and from all crosses. He seems to rejuvenate some dams. For example, Lizbet Kash hadn't done much of anything prior to this year's three-year-old sensation Four Starzzz Sisco."

The road to the Graduate Final did not come easy for Mypanmar, who has banked $130,237 lifetime. John Campbell, who has driven the Graduate winner seven times, will be at the lines behind Mypanmar.

"Mypanmar was broken as a yearling and trained down as a two-year-old by Gary Baker," Glazer noted. "He was then shipped to Ben Wallace as a two-year-old, threw a shoe in his first baby race and broke a P1 [pastern bone or first phalanx]. He came back at three under the training of Ivan Sugg. He showed lots of flash and ability on several occasions last year but never quite put it all together and was somewhat in the shadow of two other sons of The Panderosa in my barn, The Preacher Pan and Panspacificflight. I stopped with him and brought him back for his four-year-old season under the tutelage of Virgil Morgan Jr. He's won four of his six starts this year, and the Graduate elimination was his first start of the year at the Meadowlands."