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Shark Gesture Retires
Shark Gesture, the 2006 Breeders Crown 3-year-old pacing colt champion, has been retired from racing and will stand at stud in 2008 at Kentuckiana Farms of Ontario. Shark Gesture is a son of Cam's Card Shark out of Simple Gesture (by Western Hanover).

Kentuckiana Farms will serve as syndicate manager and along with Emerald Ridge Farm will manage his breeding career. Shark Gesture recently suffered a career-ending injury that forced his early retirement with career earnings of $1,003,189 and a lifetime mark of 1:49.1 at three. At age 2 Shark Gesture took a record of 1:51.3 while winning the Bluegrass Stakes in Lexington. He also captured an elimination of the Breeders Crown 2-Year-Old Colt Pace. At age 3 he won the Breeders Crown championship the week after going down in the elimination race for the Crown.

“Shark Gesture showed the guts of a true champion winning the Breeders Crown after such a tragic accident the week before,” said trainer Erv Miller.

Shark Gesture is owned by Norman Smiley, Gerald Smiley and the TLP Stable. Shark Gesture's 2008 service fee will be $5,000(C). Plans are also being made for him to begin his breeding career in Australia for the upcoming 2007-08 Southern Hemisphere breeding season.

Nuclear Breeze sets World Record
Nuclear Breeze set an all-age world record for pacers on a five-eighths mile track in the $10,000 Open at Rosecroft Raceway on Monday evening, crushing the field in a blistering 1:48.2.

The time bestsed the mark shared by Maltese Artist (Dover Downs 2005) and Casimir Camotion (Dover Downs 2006) by one-fifth of a second.

The 5-year-old Nuclear High horse sizzled through fractions of :26.1, :53.3 and 1:20.1 with driver Jim Morand at his lines, drawing off by over 11 lengths to notch his fourth seasonal win from eight starts. The earner of over $350,000 races for owner Tom Cooke of Rockville, Md., and is trained by Roger Hans.