Odds On Racing - Harness Racing

One of the greatest trotting fillies of all time, Peace Corps was a daughter of Baltic Speed who didn’t look like a world beater when the gavel hit the block for $31,000 in 1987. And, then, with a multitude of problems like soreness and tying up getting in the way…and an attitude problem "to boot," it was amazing the filly ever got to the races, much less win over $4,000,000!

As a 1988 2-year-old, Peace Corps won 15 of 19 starts and $668,599, at that time the most bounty ever for a juvenile trotting filly. After winning the $474,500 Merrie Annabelle at The Meadowlands, she took a mark of 1:56.2 at Springfield and, in her final start of the year, clocked the fastest mile ever for a two year-old trotter on a five-eighths mile track when she won the Breeders Crown at Pompano Park in 1:57.1.

Of course, she was voted Two Year-Old Filly Trotter of the Year. At three, she won 16 of 19 races and gathered over a million dollars in earnings. She took her lifetime mark of 1:52.4 in winning the $600,000 World Trotting Derby at DuQuoin and closed out her fantastic season winning another Breeders Crown event in 1:57, again in the friendly confines of Pompano Park.
So dominant were her performances that she was the overwhelming choice in balloting for Trotter of the Year—receiving 97.6% of the votes.

In 1990, now age 4, Peace Corps made but one US start…in the Breeders Crown at Pompano Park. And with her field playing a bit of "hard ball" with her, she was forced through grueling fractions of :27.3 and :55.2 before drawing away to a world record 1:54.2 performance.

Her other starts—13 of them—were overseas on the European Grand Circuit where she had nine victories and three seconds (one to Mack Lobell). Her seasonal earnings were over $600,000…just a forerunner to an unbelievable 1991 season where she won 14 of 17 starts and over $1.2 million.

Included in that season, Peace Corps, now five, only had one lone US start, that in the $450,000 International Trot at Yonkers, which she won at the mile and a quarter distance in a stakes tying time of 2;28.3h. And though Peace Corps had only one US start in both 1990 and 1991, she was voted Aged Trotting Mare both years.

At age six, Peace Corps won five times in 18 starts here and abroad and garnered an additional $482,383 in earnings…including yet another Breeders Crown crown (sic), this one at Mohawk Raceway.

She capped her racing career with just a few sporadic starts overseas in 1993 and 1994 with her lifetime victory total reaching 62 and her earnings stretching to $4,137,737.

Peace Corps Career Statistics
Year/Dom/Forgn  Sts/1sts/2nds/3rds  Earnings  Record/Venue/Date of Record
1994       (F)              5      2      1      1       $39,300
1993       (F)              1      0      0      0        $511
1992                         2      2      0      0       $168,558       6, 1:58.0F MOH F 10/09/1992
1992      (F)              16     3      5      2        $313,825
1991                         1       1      0      0        $225,000
1991      (F)              16     13    3      0        $1,113,494
1990                         1       1       0      0       $101,729      4, 1:54.2F PPK F 11/02/1990
1990      (F)              13     9      3      0        $504,020
1989                         19     16      1      0       $1,002,701    3, 1:52.4M DUQ M 09/02/1989
1988                         19     15      1      2       $668,599       2, 1:56.2M SPR M 08/17/1988
Domestic Total        42     35      2      2        $2,166,587    3, 1:52.4M
Foreign Total                   27                        $1,971,150
Grand Total                     62                         $4,137,737