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World Champion and international pacing sire Jenna's Beach Boy has the distinction of being the only pacing horse to have won the Breeders Crown at ages two, three and four. "Jenna" was trained throughout most of his career by Joe Holloway and got his early start in baby races at the Meadowlands in the spring of 1994 for trainer Jeff Smith and driver John Campbell. However, Holloway took over the conditioning duties of the soon-to-be-great pacer and put Bill Fahy up in the sulky, and he immediately connected with the burly son of Beach Towel. He went on to win both his elim and $138,084 final of the Smullin Memorial in his first two starts for Holloway, and won his next six starts of his freshman campaign, earning $481,284 in the process, including both the elim and $670,700 Breeders Crown Final at Woodbine that year.

At three, Jenna's Beach Boy matured into a dappled and robust sophomore pacing moster, winning over a million dollars and pacing in 1:48.4 at Lexington's Red Mile in the fall of 1995. He won, among others that year, the $165,404 Miller elim and final at the Poconos, the elim and $500,000 New Jersey Classic Final, the $650,000 Breeders Crown at Woodbine and numerous open and invitational stakes.

At age four "Jenna" would pace in 1:47.3 in mid-June and romp to a successful season that saw him win nine of 14 starts and amass $459,095 in earnings. He won the $75,000 Dan Patch at Hoosier Park and the $267,750 Breeders Crown Open Pace at Woodbine in the fall. He wrapped up his stellar career by winning the $41,500 Senior Jug at Delaware in 1:49.3 by five and a half lengths over rivals Hi Ho Silverheels and Village Connection.

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                        Jenna's Beach Boy strides out for driver Bill Fahy

After a standout career as a race horse in North America, Jenna's Beach Boy traveled to the world Down Under in July of 2005 to become one of the most successful sires ever in Australia. In fact, he's the highest ranked U.S. sire ever to stand in Australia, and is the sire of winners of well over $39 million. He ranked in the top ten of all U.S. sires in 2005 in terms of two, three and aged pacers.

His credentials as a sire read like a Who's Who in the annals of harness racing's Sire & Dams books. To date (October 1, 2006) Jenna's Beach boy has sired 621 starters and is the sire of
226 in 1:55, 22 in 1:51and 464 in 2:00 with 110 winners of $100,00+ and total progeny earnings in excess of $39 million.

Some of his top performers include: Total Truth 1:49.2 $1,072,075, Winner of 2006 $500,000 Hoosier Cup:  Quik Pulse Mindale 1:48 $759,463, World Champion, winner of the $180,000 American National, Provincial Cup, Breeders Crown elim.: Allamerica Theory 1:49.6 $831,173, winner of 2003 $1 Million Meadowlands Pace;  Three Olives 1:51 $1,002,801,  winner of American National, Metro Pace elim. and second in final, Windy City Pace; Lady Macbeach 1:52.2 $802,296,  winner of 2YO Breeders Crown, Countess Adios Pace and 2nd in Sweetheart Pace;   Lotsa Clout 1:50 $781,342,  winner of Matron Stakes, Bluegrass Stakes, Breeders Crown elim and second in final; Paradise Lover Boy 1:50 $721,488, Dr Drew 1:49.6, and Driven to Win 1:51, among others.

"Jenna" currently stands at Rob and Julie Vandyke's Pepper Tree Farm in Cowra, New South Wales, Australia for a fee of $5,000.

Jenna's Beach Boy Career Statistics
Year   Starts/Wins/2nds/3rds  Earnings     Record     Date & Track Record Taken
1996     14       9        1        1      $459,095     4, 1:47.3M      M        06/22/1996
1995     16       14       2       0      $1,031,793   3, 1:48.4M      Lex      09/30/1995
1994     12       7        2        2      $481,284       2, 1:51.4S      WDB    10/28/1994
Total    42    30       5        3      $1,972,172    4, 1:47.3M

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