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Back To Dream Stable CentralJuly 20, 2011
As we forecasted on Friday, conditions were ripe for a few well-positioned Dream Stable managers to make a charge at the lead thanks to the distribution of a million dollars in the Meadowlands Pace over the weekend.
When Roll With Joe held off charging favourite Big Jim at the wire to win the Pace, the Dream Stable team of Scott and Bob Young were instantaneously $750,000 richer — catapulting them from 12th to second place and now trailing leader Larry Morrison by only $57,000.
One is the loneliest number, you say? Not as far as the Youngs or Larry Morrison are concerned. Just as Morrison was the one and only Dream Stable contestant to have North America Cup champion Up The Credit on his roster, the Youngs, similarly, are the only ones to ‘own’ Roll With Joe, who has earned $949,000 in 2011 and now adds Meadowlands Pace winner to his name after being the runner-up to Up The Credit in the $1.5 million NA Cup.
The million-dollar boon of Roll With Joe notwithstanding, there’s still much work to be done for the Youngs if they have designs on sitting atop the Dream Stable standings come December. For starters, the father-and-son team will need some contributions from the two-year-olds on their list, as only $2,750 has been delivered by their freshmen so far. Also, three-year-old trotter Neal is still showing ‘nil’ on the board, an absolutely unacceptable total when you consider that many three-year-old selections have already posted six-figure totals.
Also looking for her two-year-olds to pitch in a little is Katherine Steacy, who is now sitting in third in the contest (close to $400,000 behind Morrison) on the strength of second-money from Big Jim and Foreclosure N’s fourth-place cheque. Steacy, whose husband Mark is the trainer of Foreclosure N, has watched her Dream Stable earn more than $1.5 million so far, without one dollar coming from the two-year-olds she selected.
As for Dan Davis, who had the chance for the biggest Pace night of all with Big Jim, Foreclosure N AND Betterthancheddar in his barn, he climbed 10 spots in the standings from #57 to #47, thanks to the work of Big Jim and Foreclosure N.
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