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Score Major Victories At Yonkers and Balmoral Park July 30, 2001
Cardmaster Hanover and Fully Loaded scored major victories as the Road To
the Little Brown Jug winds its way to Delaware, Ohio and the 56th renewal of
the Classic three-year-old pace on Thursday, September 20. The Delaware Grand
Circuit meeting actually gets underway Saturday, September 15 for the first
of six afternoons of racing.
Fully Loaded roared past On The Attack in the stretch to
win the $305.569
Art Rooney Memorial by 5 3/4 lengths in 1:51.4 Saturday at Yonkers Raceway.
The Artsplace colt, driven by Luc Ouellette for David Scharf and the Brian
Pinske Stable, has won five of his last six starts.
At Balmoral Park in Chicago, also on Saturday, Cardmaster
Hanover
exploded in the stretch to win the $250,000 American-National over Fifty
Percent and Eternal Optimist. The son of Cam's Card Shark also picked up his
first victory of 2001 in a lifetime best 1:50.2. Sam Widger drove for the
Samson Street Stables, J.D. Fielding and Roger Pinske.
At Vernon Downs, Robert Rosenheim's Quality Of Life set
a track record
of 1:51.1 in winning Saturday's Open Pace. Peter Blood drove the
three-year-old son of Life Sign.
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