Oskar
07-11-2012, 04:02 PM
It’s so nice to see the LB Sheppard two-year-old pace back at Yonkers. There will be three preliminary divisions of six colts each raced for $25,000 on Saturday leading up to a $100,000 final on July 21.
The race hasn’t been held since 2003, but at one time it was a key element of any high profile freshman pacer’s campaign. Bret won the inaugural edition in 1964. He won in 2:02.1, leaving a $4,000 minus pool in his wake. The great Romeo Hanover won the next year…..In 1968 the itty bitty Henry T Adios colt, Hammerin Hank, won…..Columbia George upset the outstanding freshman Truluck in a record 58.4 in 1969, and Harry Harvey overcame his colt’s swollen ankles and the trailing nine post to win with Albatross in 1970…..The following year Jack Kopas won the Sheppard with Shadow Star, a full-brother to the outstanding filly Hilarious,the dam of Pace winner Hilarion……Armbro Nesbit beat Joe O’Brien’s Steady Airliner in 1972, despite the presence of his owner, Duncan MacDonald, in the bike …… Laughs won in 1985. The following year he won the Meadowlands Pace right after Bill Haughton’s funeral. Haughton had died from injuries sustained when being thrown back out of the sulky while driving Sonny Key in the first Sheppard elimination. Sunday is the twenty-sixth anniversary of his death.
Other winners of the Sheppard are: Fulla Napoleon, Smooth Fella, Slapstick, Presidential Ball and Fortune Teller. Let’s hope it gets support.
The race hasn’t been held since 2003, but at one time it was a key element of any high profile freshman pacer’s campaign. Bret won the inaugural edition in 1964. He won in 2:02.1, leaving a $4,000 minus pool in his wake. The great Romeo Hanover won the next year…..In 1968 the itty bitty Henry T Adios colt, Hammerin Hank, won…..Columbia George upset the outstanding freshman Truluck in a record 58.4 in 1969, and Harry Harvey overcame his colt’s swollen ankles and the trailing nine post to win with Albatross in 1970…..The following year Jack Kopas won the Sheppard with Shadow Star, a full-brother to the outstanding filly Hilarious,the dam of Pace winner Hilarion……Armbro Nesbit beat Joe O’Brien’s Steady Airliner in 1972, despite the presence of his owner, Duncan MacDonald, in the bike …… Laughs won in 1985. The following year he won the Meadowlands Pace right after Bill Haughton’s funeral. Haughton had died from injuries sustained when being thrown back out of the sulky while driving Sonny Key in the first Sheppard elimination. Sunday is the twenty-sixth anniversary of his death.
Other winners of the Sheppard are: Fulla Napoleon, Smooth Fella, Slapstick, Presidential Ball and Fortune Teller. Let’s hope it gets support.