Given Andy Miller's past participations in the Mohawk Million (having one the very first one with Venerate), I would expect that he has that as a target (notwithstanding, that as of today, the Mohawk Million's Canadian Money equates to about $715,000, but that is still a nice chunk of change.) Fillies have a solid history with Venerable having won, Donna Soprano having come in 2nd. Valentina Blu come in 3rd. etc. I would guess they missed out on making their first payment, in February for either the Wellwood or the Peaceful Way eligibility as Wall of Fame would have been a solid contender, and they were racing for 1/5 the money instead.
As with all 2 year olds, health, physical development, and how they come out of their 2yo racing season will determine what is there at 3, and even good work on those 3 factors does not guarantee that a really top horse at 2 attains the same status at 3; HOWEVER Wall of Fame is definitely one of the nicer looking 2yo filly trotters I have seen in a long time. Great gait, seems like a good head, reasonably steerable, and big lungs with the will to win. If it were my horse, Mohawk Million and Breeders' Crown....
Given the money I would tend to agree but KYSS final is the 20th and the Mohawk Million is the 26th. She would essentially race 6x in 6 weeks and after shipping round trip from Kentucky to NJ she would have to ship from Kentucky to Ontario.
If you were planning on skipping the KYSS final then why ship to Kentucky at all. My guess is they go back to Kentucky and do the final, the Bluegrass, ISS and then ship to Ohio for the Breeders Crown.
The Kentuckian and Doherty are also around basically the same time (18th and 25th). The schedule is stupid - makes it so the best rarely go against each other
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