Post by Big Tee© on Dec 4, 2004 10:41:47 GMT -5
The nominees for 2005 honors are Beach Towel, CR Kay Suzie, Direct Scooter, Matt’s Scooter, and Miss Easy...
iographies of the horses nominated:
Beach Towel, p, 2, 1:533f; 3, 1:50 ($2,570,357) was a foal of 1987. Nominated as a racehorse, Beach Towel (French Chef—Sunburn, by Armbro Nesbit) was the 1990 Horse of the Year and retired as the richest single-season moneywinning Standardbred of all time when he won $2,091,860 that year.
Plagued by allergies as a 2-year-old, Beach Towel won 11 of 13 starts and earned $478,497. He set stakes, track, or season’s records with victories in the Presidential Series, Matron Stakes, Potomac, and a Governor’s Cup Elimination.
At age three, Beach Towel entered the winner’s circle 18 times in 23 starts. Victories and records came in such stakes as the Little Brown Jug; the Meadowlands Pace; The Coors Delvin Miller Adios, in which he set a North American record for a second heat; the Breeders Crown Final, in stakes record time; the Prix d’Ete, in which he set a North American record for two heats; the Tattersalls, in which he set the single-season moneywinning record and matched the North American record for a second heat; the American-National Final, in which he set a stakes and track record; the Miller Memorial; the Hanover Colt Stakes; and the Terrapin Stakes.
Beach Towel’s records as a 3-year-old include the most sub-1:55 wins in a year (18); the most 1:53 or better wins in a season (12); and he retired as a world champion and richest single-season Standardbred of all-time.
Beach Towel is the sire of winners of more than $42 million, and has produced 120 winners of $100,000 or more. He is the sire of seven horses in 1:50 and 156 in 1:55, including the three-time Breeders Crown winner Jenna’s Beach Boy, p, 4, 1:473 ($1,972,172).
CR Kay Suzie, 2, 1:551; 3, 1:524; 4, 1:523 ($1,611,131), who was a foal of 1992. Nominated as a racehorse, CR Kay Suzie (Royal Troubador--Country Kay Sue, by Speedy Somolli) was only the eighth filly or mare to be voted Horse of the Year since balloting began in 1947. A world champion, she won 18 of 24 starts and $1,611,131.
CR Kay Suzie won seven of nine starts at age two, including the Merrie Annabelle, the New Jersey Futurity, and two New Jersey Sire Stakes. In 1994 she became the fastest 2-year-old trotter in a race when she won in 1:551. After setting world records of 1:563 on a half-mile track, 1:561 on five-eighths mile track, and 1:551 on a one-mile track, she was voted the 2-Year-Old Trotting Filly of the Year.
As a 3-year-old, CR Kay Suzie won 10 of 13 starts and earned $910,535. Wins came in the Breeders Crown, the World Trotting Derby, the Yonkers Trot, the Beacon Course Trot, the New Jersey Sire Stakes Final, and two New Jersey Sire Stakes. She equaled the world record for mares on a half-mile track, 1:56, and Peace Corps’ 3-year-old filly record of 1:524. Following her outstanding campaign in 1995 she was voted the 3-Year-Old Filly Trotter of the Year, the Trotter of the Year, and the Harness Horse of the Year.
At age four, CR Kay Suzie won the Breeders Crown Open trot and was elected the Trotting Mare of the Year in 1996.
“Suzie” is the dam of CR Excalibur, 2, 1:561 ($463,412) and was the first Horse of the Year to be bred, trained, owned, and driven by one family -- the family of the late Carl Allen.
Direct Scooter, p, 3, 1:54 ($800,451) was a foal of 1976 and was nominated as a racehorse and as a stallion. The son of Sampson Direct, out of Noble Claire, was unraced at age two, due to a throat infection. Lightly staked at age three, he won 21 of 32 starts and earned $298,162.
At age four, Direct Scooter was voted the Older Pacer of the Year in 1980, during which he won 15 of 28 starts and earned $502,289 -- which was a record for single-season winnings by an older horse in North America. Also that year, he set world on two five-eighth mile tracks, of 1:542.
Direct Scooter, with his trotting bloodlines, is a noted outcross sire. He has sired more than 1,985 registered foals, who have earned nearly $100 million. He ranks among the top-10 moneywinning sires of all-time, and among leading sires of 2:00 performers -- with more than 1,050. He ranks in the top-10 leading sires of $100,000 winners, with 267. He has sired four in who have won 1:50 or better, and over 290 who have marks of 1:55 or faster. He is the sire of Matt’s Scooter, p, 3, T1:482 ($2,944,591), who was a world champion and the fastest Standardbred of all-time when he posted his record in 1988, and of In The Pocket, p, 3, T1:493 ($1,537,473).
Direct Scooter has sired dam who have produced more than 865 foals who have won in 2:00, and whose sons and daughters have earned more than $76 million. A total of 205 of those foals are $100,000 winners. His daughters have produced such stars as Pacific Rocket, p, 4, 1:50s and Royalflush Hanover, p, 4, 1:493 -- both of whom have won more than $2 million.
Matt's Scooter, p, 2, 1:581f; 3, T1:482 ($2,944,591), who was a foal of 1985, and who was nominated as a racehorse. Matt’s Scooter (Direct Scooter--Ellen's Glory, by Meadow Skipper) was elected as both the 3-Year-Old Colt Pacer of the Year and the Pacer of the Year in 1988, and as the Older Pacer of the Year, Pacer of the Year, and the Harness Horse of the Year in 1989. He retired as the world's fastest Standardbred, by virtue of his astounding time trial of 1:482 at Lexington's Red Mile. In 1988, Matt's Scooter was the leading moneywinning harness horse, with earnings of $1,783,558.
At age two, Matt's Scooter won two legs of the Blue Bonnets Series and finished second in the final. At age three, he won the Messenger Stakes, the Meadowlands Pace, the Prix d'Ete, the Nat Christie Memorial, the American-National, the New Jersey Classic, the Confederation Cup, and two New Jersey Sire Stakes. This impressive year netted him 11 wins in 22 trips behind the starting gate, and he earned $1,783,558.
In 1989, Matt's Scooter, as a 4-year-old, was voted the Horse of the Year. He earned $1,140,994 and won the Breeders Crown, the Stewart Fraser Memorial, the Mohawk Gold Cup, the U.S. Pacing Championship, the Molson Export Series, the Driscoll Series Final, legs of the George Morton Levy Series, the Graduate Series, the William Haughton Series Final, and the On The Road Again Pace.
Matt's Scooter has sired 229 horses who have won in 1:55 or faster, and 566 with records of 2:00 or better. He has produced 151 winners of $100,000 and a quartet of $1 million winners: Mach Three, p, 3, 1:49 ($2,170,255); Mystical Maddy, p, 4, 1:50 ($1,436,325) who in 1996 was voted the 3-Year-Old Pacing Filly of the Year and who in 1997 was elected Pacing Mare of the Year; His Mattjesty, p, 3, 1:51 ($1,038,861), who was a Breeders Crown winner; and Royal Mattjesty, p, 1:484.
Matt’s Scooter has sired the dams of horses who have won in 1:50 or faster; 124 who have taken marks of 1:55 or better; and 58 who have $100,000 winners -- including the millionaire Glowing Report p, 3, 1:501 and the stakeswinning Georgia Pacific, p, 3, 1:491.
Miss Easy, p, 2, 1:512; 1:54f; 3, 1:511; 1:522f, ($1,777,656), who was a foal of 1988, was nominated as a racehorse. After 13 years away from the track, Miss Easy (Amity Chef--Pleasure Seeker, by Bret Hanover) still ranks in the top-50 moneywinning pacers. In two years she won an amazing $1.777,656. She was the first 2-year-old filly to win over $1 million, and she made 32 starts and posted 25 wins -- and only missed finishing on the board only once. Her 2-year-old world record of 1:512, set in 1990 at the Red Mile, remains unbroken. Miss Easy became the first pacing filly to break 1:52 at both ages two and three.
In 1990, her freshman year, Miss Easy made 17 starts, posted 15 wins, and earned $1,128,956. She tied Central Park West's 1988 North American record for 2-year-old fillies with 16 wins in 2:00 or faster. She was named the U.S. Trotting Association Horse of the Month in September, 1988 and was voted the title of 2-Year-Old Pacing Filly of the Year. She won four New Jersey Sire Stakes, including the final, and was the first filly ever to be named New Jersey Sire Stakes Horse of the Year, in 1990. Other major wins for Miss Easy came in the Sweetheart, won in a stakes record of 1:523; the Three Diamonds; a division of the Countess Adios, in which she set a new track record; the Lady Baltimore; and the Breeders Crown 2-year-old filly pace, in which she set a North American season's record on a five-eighths mile track.
In 1991, as a 3-year-old, Miss Easy won the Mistletoe Shalee, in a world and stakes record 1:511; the Historic-Ladyship; and a division of the Tarport Hap. She also won the Breeder's Crown 3-year-old filly pace, in a world record 1:522f. She was named the U.S. Trotting Association’s Horse of the Month in August, and at year-end she was voted as the 3-Year-Old Pacing Filly of the Year.
Miss Easy retired at the end of her 3-year-old year. Now a broodmare, in 1993 she delivered her first and most successful foal – JFK, p, 3, 1:52 ($252,930).
On Hall of Fame Day, Sunday, July 3, 2005, the two horses receiving the most votes will join newly elected driver Ron Pierce in Harness Racing’s Living Hall of Fame. Communicator’s Corner inductees Tom White and Nick Saponara will also be inducted at that time.
Ballots will be mailed to members of the Harness Racing Museum and Hall of Fame, on which they will choose the 2005 Living Horse Hall of Fame inductees. All members in good standing are eligible to vote for the two horses they feel exemplify greatness.
(Courtesy of the Harness Racing Museum and Hall of Fame)
Just an additional note about Matts Scooter. The article states that in 1989, he won the On The Road Again Pace. Both horses were owned by the same people, and both were bargain basement colts that went on to greatness
iographies of the horses nominated:
Beach Towel, p, 2, 1:533f; 3, 1:50 ($2,570,357) was a foal of 1987. Nominated as a racehorse, Beach Towel (French Chef—Sunburn, by Armbro Nesbit) was the 1990 Horse of the Year and retired as the richest single-season moneywinning Standardbred of all time when he won $2,091,860 that year.
Plagued by allergies as a 2-year-old, Beach Towel won 11 of 13 starts and earned $478,497. He set stakes, track, or season’s records with victories in the Presidential Series, Matron Stakes, Potomac, and a Governor’s Cup Elimination.
At age three, Beach Towel entered the winner’s circle 18 times in 23 starts. Victories and records came in such stakes as the Little Brown Jug; the Meadowlands Pace; The Coors Delvin Miller Adios, in which he set a North American record for a second heat; the Breeders Crown Final, in stakes record time; the Prix d’Ete, in which he set a North American record for two heats; the Tattersalls, in which he set the single-season moneywinning record and matched the North American record for a second heat; the American-National Final, in which he set a stakes and track record; the Miller Memorial; the Hanover Colt Stakes; and the Terrapin Stakes.
Beach Towel’s records as a 3-year-old include the most sub-1:55 wins in a year (18); the most 1:53 or better wins in a season (12); and he retired as a world champion and richest single-season Standardbred of all-time.
Beach Towel is the sire of winners of more than $42 million, and has produced 120 winners of $100,000 or more. He is the sire of seven horses in 1:50 and 156 in 1:55, including the three-time Breeders Crown winner Jenna’s Beach Boy, p, 4, 1:473 ($1,972,172).
CR Kay Suzie, 2, 1:551; 3, 1:524; 4, 1:523 ($1,611,131), who was a foal of 1992. Nominated as a racehorse, CR Kay Suzie (Royal Troubador--Country Kay Sue, by Speedy Somolli) was only the eighth filly or mare to be voted Horse of the Year since balloting began in 1947. A world champion, she won 18 of 24 starts and $1,611,131.
CR Kay Suzie won seven of nine starts at age two, including the Merrie Annabelle, the New Jersey Futurity, and two New Jersey Sire Stakes. In 1994 she became the fastest 2-year-old trotter in a race when she won in 1:551. After setting world records of 1:563 on a half-mile track, 1:561 on five-eighths mile track, and 1:551 on a one-mile track, she was voted the 2-Year-Old Trotting Filly of the Year.
As a 3-year-old, CR Kay Suzie won 10 of 13 starts and earned $910,535. Wins came in the Breeders Crown, the World Trotting Derby, the Yonkers Trot, the Beacon Course Trot, the New Jersey Sire Stakes Final, and two New Jersey Sire Stakes. She equaled the world record for mares on a half-mile track, 1:56, and Peace Corps’ 3-year-old filly record of 1:524. Following her outstanding campaign in 1995 she was voted the 3-Year-Old Filly Trotter of the Year, the Trotter of the Year, and the Harness Horse of the Year.
At age four, CR Kay Suzie won the Breeders Crown Open trot and was elected the Trotting Mare of the Year in 1996.
“Suzie” is the dam of CR Excalibur, 2, 1:561 ($463,412) and was the first Horse of the Year to be bred, trained, owned, and driven by one family -- the family of the late Carl Allen.
Direct Scooter, p, 3, 1:54 ($800,451) was a foal of 1976 and was nominated as a racehorse and as a stallion. The son of Sampson Direct, out of Noble Claire, was unraced at age two, due to a throat infection. Lightly staked at age three, he won 21 of 32 starts and earned $298,162.
At age four, Direct Scooter was voted the Older Pacer of the Year in 1980, during which he won 15 of 28 starts and earned $502,289 -- which was a record for single-season winnings by an older horse in North America. Also that year, he set world on two five-eighth mile tracks, of 1:542.
Direct Scooter, with his trotting bloodlines, is a noted outcross sire. He has sired more than 1,985 registered foals, who have earned nearly $100 million. He ranks among the top-10 moneywinning sires of all-time, and among leading sires of 2:00 performers -- with more than 1,050. He ranks in the top-10 leading sires of $100,000 winners, with 267. He has sired four in who have won 1:50 or better, and over 290 who have marks of 1:55 or faster. He is the sire of Matt’s Scooter, p, 3, T1:482 ($2,944,591), who was a world champion and the fastest Standardbred of all-time when he posted his record in 1988, and of In The Pocket, p, 3, T1:493 ($1,537,473).
Direct Scooter has sired dam who have produced more than 865 foals who have won in 2:00, and whose sons and daughters have earned more than $76 million. A total of 205 of those foals are $100,000 winners. His daughters have produced such stars as Pacific Rocket, p, 4, 1:50s and Royalflush Hanover, p, 4, 1:493 -- both of whom have won more than $2 million.
Matt's Scooter, p, 2, 1:581f; 3, T1:482 ($2,944,591), who was a foal of 1985, and who was nominated as a racehorse. Matt’s Scooter (Direct Scooter--Ellen's Glory, by Meadow Skipper) was elected as both the 3-Year-Old Colt Pacer of the Year and the Pacer of the Year in 1988, and as the Older Pacer of the Year, Pacer of the Year, and the Harness Horse of the Year in 1989. He retired as the world's fastest Standardbred, by virtue of his astounding time trial of 1:482 at Lexington's Red Mile. In 1988, Matt's Scooter was the leading moneywinning harness horse, with earnings of $1,783,558.
At age two, Matt's Scooter won two legs of the Blue Bonnets Series and finished second in the final. At age three, he won the Messenger Stakes, the Meadowlands Pace, the Prix d'Ete, the Nat Christie Memorial, the American-National, the New Jersey Classic, the Confederation Cup, and two New Jersey Sire Stakes. This impressive year netted him 11 wins in 22 trips behind the starting gate, and he earned $1,783,558.
In 1989, Matt's Scooter, as a 4-year-old, was voted the Horse of the Year. He earned $1,140,994 and won the Breeders Crown, the Stewart Fraser Memorial, the Mohawk Gold Cup, the U.S. Pacing Championship, the Molson Export Series, the Driscoll Series Final, legs of the George Morton Levy Series, the Graduate Series, the William Haughton Series Final, and the On The Road Again Pace.
Matt's Scooter has sired 229 horses who have won in 1:55 or faster, and 566 with records of 2:00 or better. He has produced 151 winners of $100,000 and a quartet of $1 million winners: Mach Three, p, 3, 1:49 ($2,170,255); Mystical Maddy, p, 4, 1:50 ($1,436,325) who in 1996 was voted the 3-Year-Old Pacing Filly of the Year and who in 1997 was elected Pacing Mare of the Year; His Mattjesty, p, 3, 1:51 ($1,038,861), who was a Breeders Crown winner; and Royal Mattjesty, p, 1:484.
Matt’s Scooter has sired the dams of horses who have won in 1:50 or faster; 124 who have taken marks of 1:55 or better; and 58 who have $100,000 winners -- including the millionaire Glowing Report p, 3, 1:501 and the stakeswinning Georgia Pacific, p, 3, 1:491.
Miss Easy, p, 2, 1:512; 1:54f; 3, 1:511; 1:522f, ($1,777,656), who was a foal of 1988, was nominated as a racehorse. After 13 years away from the track, Miss Easy (Amity Chef--Pleasure Seeker, by Bret Hanover) still ranks in the top-50 moneywinning pacers. In two years she won an amazing $1.777,656. She was the first 2-year-old filly to win over $1 million, and she made 32 starts and posted 25 wins -- and only missed finishing on the board only once. Her 2-year-old world record of 1:512, set in 1990 at the Red Mile, remains unbroken. Miss Easy became the first pacing filly to break 1:52 at both ages two and three.
In 1990, her freshman year, Miss Easy made 17 starts, posted 15 wins, and earned $1,128,956. She tied Central Park West's 1988 North American record for 2-year-old fillies with 16 wins in 2:00 or faster. She was named the U.S. Trotting Association Horse of the Month in September, 1988 and was voted the title of 2-Year-Old Pacing Filly of the Year. She won four New Jersey Sire Stakes, including the final, and was the first filly ever to be named New Jersey Sire Stakes Horse of the Year, in 1990. Other major wins for Miss Easy came in the Sweetheart, won in a stakes record of 1:523; the Three Diamonds; a division of the Countess Adios, in which she set a new track record; the Lady Baltimore; and the Breeders Crown 2-year-old filly pace, in which she set a North American season's record on a five-eighths mile track.
In 1991, as a 3-year-old, Miss Easy won the Mistletoe Shalee, in a world and stakes record 1:511; the Historic-Ladyship; and a division of the Tarport Hap. She also won the Breeder's Crown 3-year-old filly pace, in a world record 1:522f. She was named the U.S. Trotting Association’s Horse of the Month in August, and at year-end she was voted as the 3-Year-Old Pacing Filly of the Year.
Miss Easy retired at the end of her 3-year-old year. Now a broodmare, in 1993 she delivered her first and most successful foal – JFK, p, 3, 1:52 ($252,930).
On Hall of Fame Day, Sunday, July 3, 2005, the two horses receiving the most votes will join newly elected driver Ron Pierce in Harness Racing’s Living Hall of Fame. Communicator’s Corner inductees Tom White and Nick Saponara will also be inducted at that time.
Ballots will be mailed to members of the Harness Racing Museum and Hall of Fame, on which they will choose the 2005 Living Horse Hall of Fame inductees. All members in good standing are eligible to vote for the two horses they feel exemplify greatness.
(Courtesy of the Harness Racing Museum and Hall of Fame)
Just an additional note about Matts Scooter. The article states that in 1989, he won the On The Road Again Pace. Both horses were owned by the same people, and both were bargain basement colts that went on to greatness
