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General Category => Harness Racing => Topic started by: wizardofoz on April 03, 2025, 02:57:23 PM
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Meadowlands, Saturday night, race 5, NW2 PM, Always B Colour IR is making his first parimutual start here and his appearance is a rare event in harness racing! (https://ustrottingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Always-B-Colour-IR.jpg) (https://ustrottingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Always-B-Colour-IRb.jpg)
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RACE 6 - Meadowlands - NJ - March 29, 2025
Conditions: Qualifier - Horses & Geldings
Gait: Pace Purse: 0 Class: QUA Distance: 1 mile Track Cond: FT Temp-Allow: 79-1
HN Horse PP 1/4 1/2 3/4 Str Finish Actual LQ Odds Driver Trainer
3 D A Mcdreamy 3 2/1Q 2/1Q 2/1Q 2/1Q 1/1 1:51.4 27.0 NB Joe Bongiorno Joe Bongiorno
7 Century Komodo 7 4/4H 4/3T 4/4H 4/3H 2/1 1:52.0 26.3 NB Todd McCarthy Jeff Cullipher
5 Always B Colour Ir 5 1/1Q 1/1Q 1/1Q 1/1Q 3/1Q 1:52.0 27.2 NB Lauren Tritton Shane Tritton
6 Avellino 6 3/2H 3/2H 3/2H 3/2H 4/1H 1:52.0 27.0 NB Dexter Dunn A. Tony Monica
2 Iminurblindspot 2 6/8Q 6/7T 6/11T 5/13H 5/22T 1:56.2 29.2 NB Brett Beckwith Michael Polhemus
8 Make America Great 8 8/11Q 8/11Q 8/14T 7/17 6/26Q 1:57.0 29.2 NB Bryan Quevedo Cameron Capone
4 Kid Did It 4 7/9T 7/9T 7/13Q 6/16 7/31 1:58.0 30.4 NB Mark Herschberger Diana Kramer
1 Jerrys Pacesetter 1 5/6T 5/6Q 5/10H 8/18 8/33T 1:58.3 32.0 NB Joe Martin Joe Martin
Time: 28.0 57.0 (29.0) 1:24.3 (27.3) 1:51.4 (27.1)
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I just read that & hope to see the race. If not I'll watch the replay. Always B Colour doing well could create a small buzz.
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You can watch the qualifier replay.
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I've seen some Irish and GB bred horses importing and winning
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I believe the Trittons had one or two from IRE that did ok a few years ago
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For some reason RTN does not have the 3/29 qualifiers for replay. Anywhere else??
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I just now watched the replay on the Meadowlands web page.
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I looked up Always B Colour on Pedigree Online.
True or False?
Silk Stockings is in the pedigree of the dam?
On the pedigree page are pictures of Snow Time and Snowflake.
They look just like their young relative.
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I just now watched the replay on the Meadowlands web page.
Got it; RTN does the Meadowlands Replays on both their own site and on the Playmeadowlands site, but both were out for a while (not sure why).. but now all good.
It must be the impression the colors give, but there seemed to be a bit of thickness to the butt/hindquarters and between the forearm and elbow area??
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3-29-2025 Qualifier race 6 https://playmeadowlands.com/live-replay-video/
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I looked up Always B Colour on Pedigree Online.
True or False?
Silk Stockings is in the pedigree of the dam?
On the pedigree page are pictures of Snow Time and Snowflake.
They look just like their young relative.
Is Silk Stockings in the pedigree?
Well No and yet Yes.
The Preston Burris Silk Stockings that many may remember No.
The New Zealand pinto Silk Stockings foaled in 1928 Yes.
Also in the pedigree is the pinto mare Terou, also the pinto mare Marpou foaled in 1906, also the pinto mare Keipara.
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I believe the Trittons had one or two from IRE that did ok a few years ago
Rhyds superfly is currently doing well at yonkers for them, he was in Ireland last year
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He sure is a good looking horse. How good is he? I'd say that's horse is a GORILLA.
Some gas and a driver. Look out.
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I’m undecided what kind of ceiling this guy might have, but he looked really good tonight. Lauren had to get after him a little in the stretch against nw2. Still inexperienced, so who knows how good he can be. Personally, I’m hoping sky’s the limit. He look pretty cool out on the track. Very easy to find him out there!
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RACE 5 - Meadowlands - NJ - April 5, 2025*** UNOFFICIAL RESULTS ***
Conditions: Horses & Geldings - 5 Year Olds & Under N/W 2 (N/W L2 or NJSO 3) Extended PM Races Life (Maidens Drawn Inside)
Gait: Pace Purse: 15,500 Class: 5u nw2cd Distance: 1 Mile Track Cond: GD Temp-Allow: 47-1
HN Horse PP 1/4 1/2 3/4 Str Finish Actual LQ Odds Driver Trainer
4 Always B Colour Ir 4 1/1H 1/1Q 1/1 1/1 1/2H 1:52.0 27.2 *0.60 Lauren Tritton Shane Tritton
3 Bulldozer
3, Tall Dark Stranger-
Fable 3 2/1H 2/1Q 2°/1 2/1 2/2H 1:52.2 27.3 6.00 Josert Fonseca Nancy Takter
8 Handsome Stranger
3, Tall Dark Stranger-
Silk Beach 8 8/10 7/8H 8/6H 4/3T 3/2T 1:52.3 26.4 5.10 Jason Bartlett Per Engblom
5 Avellino 5 6/7Q 6°/7Q 6°°/4Q 5/4Q 4/3H 1:52.3 27.1 13.20 Dexter Dunn A. Tony Monica
2 Quantum
3, Lather Up-Mystical Bay 2 3/3 3/3Q 3/2Q 3/2H 5/4Q 1:52.4 27.4 48.10 Anibal Borjas Tony Alagna
10 Kurt Longjohn 10 4/4Q 4/4H 5/4Q 6/4Q 6/5Q 1:53.0 27.3 88.20 Andrew McCarthy Besim Odza
9 Final Chance 9 10/12T 10/10T 10/8H 8/6T 7/9 1:53.4 27.3 178.30 Pat Lachance Pat Lachance
1 Miki On The Run
3, Always A Virgin-
Artstopper 1 5/6 5°/6 4°/3Q 7/6T 8/9H 1:53.4 28.3 10.00 David Miller Joe Holloway
7 Brower
3, American Ideal-
Sunshine Inn 7 9/11Q 9°/10Q 9°°/7H 10/9H 9/12T 1:54.3 28.3 183.30 Todd McCarthy Dr Frank Kasyan
6 Stay Focused
3, Stay Hungry-
Yoselin Seelster 6 7/8T 8°/8H 7°°/5H 9/8T 10/13H 1:54.3 29.0 8.80 Scott Zeron Ron Burke
Time: 27.2 55.3 (28.1) 1:24.3 (29.0) 1:52.0 (27.2) Race Pool: $323,945.42
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The colorful horse is back in to go Sat. at The Big M.
I think they ought to bring in Tonto (Jay Silverheels) to drive.
Tonto is an experienced pinto rider. He rode Scout on the Lone Ranger TV show.
Tonto is also a licensed harness horse driver.
How many here remember Tonto on a USTA sponsored tour of several tracks?
He would drive in 3 or 4 races and then sign autographs.
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The colorful horse is back in to go Sat. at The Big M.
I think they ought to bring in Tonto (Jay Silverheels) to drive.
Tonto is an experienced pinto rider. He rode Scout on the Lone Ranger TV show.
Tonto is also a licensed harness horse driver.
How many here remember Tonto on a USTA sponsored tour of several tracks?
He would drive in 3 or 4 races and then sign autographs.
“Who was that masked horse?” is a question trainer Milan Smith hopes to hear frequently this year with his popularly-named rags-to-riches pacer, Hi Ho Silverheels.
The 4-year-old horse is scheduled to ship here from a nearby farm this week to begin training for an ambitious campaign that Smith hopes will earn national honors. Smith named the bargain colt after his late friend, Jay Silverheels, who played Tonto in the old “Lone Ranger” television series.
Almost that much time has elapsed since a standardbred with California connections was named harness horse of the year, 1973, when Sir Dalrae earned the honor for Los Angeles restaurateur Bill Smith’s A La Carte Racing Stable. Sir Dalrae died this year in New Zealand at 26.
The trainer hopes another harness horse with Smith connections ends the drought. “Bill Fahy, his driver, called me last week from New Jersey and said he might be the best pacer in the country this year,” said Smith. “I said, ‘Let’s keep our fingers crossed, and with the Lord’s help, maybe he’ll make it.’ ”
Smith trains the colt for his wife, Myrna, and Roy Mooresfield, a contractor from Downey. Smith recalled buying Hi Ho Silverheels for practically nothing at a yearling sale here.
“Mr. Mooresfield and I bought him for $1,850, tax included,” Smith said. “Suzanne Broughten was dispersing some of her horses bred out of state. He had a big cut on the back of his leg, which scared off a majority of bidders. And it was late in the sale.”
Smith, 71, knew he had something special when he began line-driving and jogging the colt at Highland Farms near Victorville. “He was just a natural,” Smith said of the New Jersey-bred son of Walton Hanover.
Hi Ho Silverheels lived up to his potential last year, winning 14 of 21 starts throughout the nation, earning $364,000 and taking a life mark of 1:50 3/5 over the mile oval at Garden State, N.J. He won his first four starts here last spring for driver Rick Kuebler.
“The Lone Ranger used to say, ‘Hi Ho Silver, Away!’ ” explained Smith of the name. “When he was clear in the stretch last year at Garden State, the announcer said, ‘It’s the Lone Ranger out there all alone by himself!’ ”
Smith, who grew up on a Sioux Indian reservation in South Dakota, befriended Silverheels on the set in Hollywood when he worked as a movie stuntman and the latter was playing Tonto. Silverheels also was brought up on an Indian reservation, in Ontario, Canada.
“I had a couple of harness horses, and Jay would come over to Hollywood Park and enjoyed jogging them,” said Smith. “Jay had a driver’s license and went on a promotional tour that I managed back East around 1973 or ’74. He autographed pictures the tracks gave away and won a few races.”
Smith hopes Hi Ho Silverheels wins a few more in his memory. “He had two months off at Highland Farms after his last race in November and has been swimming the last two weeks at Emerald Meadows Ranch in Riverside,” he said.
“If he doesn’t make the end of the meet here (March 25), we’ll get him ready for his first start in Sacramento next month for his first major stake in May at Freehold (N.J.). Our stakes schedule is for him to race 18 or 20 times this year, including the Breeders Crown.
“We’ve got big expectations for him. If we get a warm night and somebody cuts a good mile, I hope he can go in under 1:50.”
Hi Ho Silverheel’s was a brilliant racehorse, earning just shy of $1.2 million with a 1:49.4 mark, and also proved to be one of the more influential harness racing stallions in the history of California breeding.
A member of the class of 1991, Hi Ho Silverheel’s was by Walton Hanover out of the Abercrombie mare Armbro Caprice.
“He wasn’t bred in California, but he was foaled here and he’s the best we’ve ever produced,” said Wayne Knittel, who stood the stallion.
In his racing days, Hi Ho Silverheel’s was scintillating to watch. Rick Kuebler drove him in all his California starts and was also at the controls when he competed in the Dan Patch at Hoosier Park.
“He was the most gifted equine athlete I ever sat behind,” Kuebler stated. “He had the unique combination of high speed and the capability to carry it. He routinely paced miles in 1:51 and change at Los Alamitos and I felt that on a good day he would break the 1:50 barrier.
“There was a period in his career where you could have matched him up against the nine other best horses in the world and he would have been the odds-on favorite. He was that impressive.”
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