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PERRETTI FARM DUO TAKE VALLEY VICTORY & GOLDSMITH MAID FINALSMANALAPAN, NJ – September 6, 2009 – Lucky Chucky and Costa Rica, both bred by the Perretti Farms of Cream Ridge, NJ, swept the two-year-old trotting stakes on Sunday, September 6, 2009 at Harrah’s Chester.
Lucky Chucky, a son of Windsong’s Legacy - Aerobics, had the lead at every call and captured the $450,000 Valley Victory by a length over Pilgrims Taj in 1:56 flat in the tenth race. Two races earlier, Costa Rica, a daughter of Muscles Yankee – Examination scored in the $450,000 Goldsmith Maid, holding off In The Mean Time, also by Muscles Yankee, in a stakes record 1:56.2.
John Campbell was at the lines for the Chuck Sylvester-trained Lucky Chucky.
The trotting colt now has five wins in six starts this year, including divisions of the Harriman, Peter Haughton elims and his Valley Victory qualifier. His only loss was a third-place finish in the $523,600 Peter Haughton Final on Hambletonian Day at the Meadowlands.
A $10,000 Harrisburg Sale purchase, he has banked $330,596 for Sylvester and partners Neal Goldman of Washington Township, NJ and Amy Lynn Stoltzfus of Williamstown, NJ.
Costa Rica, driven by Ron Pierce and trained by Jimmy Takter, was a $23,000 Harrisburg Sale purchase who has been first or second in all nine starts this year, earning $557,230. Her victories included both New Jersey Sire Stakes Championship Finals – the $200,000 event at the Meadowlands on July 23 and the $100,000 at Freehold on August 26. She also won her Merrie Annabelle elim before finishing second in the $525,800 final on August 8.
Costa Rica is owned by Christina Takter of East Windsor, NJ and John and Jim Fielding of Toronto, Ontario.
The pair of victories at Chester on Sunday afternoon continued what has been an extraordinary weekend for New Jersey-sired major stakes champs.
Muscles Yankee also sired the winners of the $540,000 World Trotting Derby, Muscle Hill, and the $130,000 Filly World Trotting Derby, Highscore Kemp, at the DuQuoin State Fair in Illinois and one of the $130,781 Simcoe divisions at Mohawk with Neighsay Hanover. The other divisions went to Big Bikkies who is by Windsong’s Legacy.
New Jersey-based pacing stallions swept the two-year-old stakes at Mohawk on Saturday night with Sportswriter, a son of Artsplace, annexing the $920,000 Metro and Put On A Show, a daughter of Rocknroll Hanover, capturing the $745,476 She’s A Great Lady.
The $630,200 Canadian Pacing Derby at Mohawk went to Shark Gesture who is by New Jersey-based Cam’s Card Shark.
-Submitted by Carol Hodes for SBOANJ
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