Muscle Hill
Muscle Hill | |
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Breed | Standardbred |
Sire | |
Grandsire | |
Dam | Yankee Blondie |
Damsire | American Winner |
Sex | Stallion |
Foaled | 2006 |
Country | United States |
Colour | Bay |
Breeder | |
Owner | Muscle Hill Racing LLC |
Trainer | |
Record | 21:20-1-0 |
Earnings | $3,273,342 |
Major wins | |
Peter Haughton Memorial (2008) Stanley Dancer Memorial (2009) Canadian Trotting Classic (2009) (2009) Breeders Crown wins: U.S. Trotting Triple Crown wins: Kentucky Futurity (2009) | |
Awards | |
2-Year Old Trotter of the Year (2008) 3-Year Old Trotter of the Year (2009) (2009) United States Harness Horse of the Year (2009) (2009) Canadian Harness Horse of the Year (2009) | |
Honours | |
U.S. Harness Racing Hall of Fame (2016) | |
Last updated on November 22, 2016 |
Muscle Hill is a trotting stallion, out of super sire Muscles Yankee, who won a Breeders Crown race in 2008 and 2009. He is driven by Brian Sears and trained by .
Muscle Hill was purchased by Tom Pontone for $55,000 at the Harrisburg Yearling Sales in 2007.[1] He showed great promise as a two-year-old winning the Peter Haughton Memorial and 2008 Breeders Crown Two Year Old Colt Trot. He went on to win $817,301 and eight of nine races and was named the United States 2-Year Old Colt Trotter of the Year.[2]
In 2009 he went on to win all of his races as a three-year-old, including the Hambletonian, the Canadian Trotting Classic, the American-National, the , the Kentucky Futurity and the Breeders Crown. In The Hambletonian he won in 1:50.1 which was a stakes record and tied the fastest time for a trotter of any age at The Meadowlands.[1] He won by six lengths, the largest winning margin in The Hambletonian since Mack Lobell in 1987.[3] At the end of 2009 he retired to stud with career prize money of $3,273,342, and having won the last 20 of the 21 races in which he competed.[4] The $2,456,041 that he won in 2009 was a record for a single season for either a trotter or a pacer.[2] He was voted United States Harness Horse of the Year for 2009, the first time a trotter had won the award for an undefeated season.[3] He never came close to defeat in his twenty wins which were all by a margin of at least one length.[3]
At stud his early foals have included Hambletonian winner Trixton and top filly Mission Brief.[2] ,Marion Marauder - 1 50,2 - 2013 g.- winner Hambletonian , Bar Horring - 1.51,4 - 2013 g., Manchego - 1.49,0 - 2015 g.
In January 2016 it was announced that Muscle Hill would be inducted into the Living Horse Hall of Fame.[5]
References[]
- ^ a b Muscle Hill wins Hambletonian in record time at the Meadowlands, Daily News, Retrieved 16 February 2016
- ^ a b c Stallions Australasia, Retrieved 14 February 2016
- ^ a b c 2009 Hambletonian, The Hambletonian Society, Retrieved 14 February 2016
- ^ "Muscle Hill ends his career with 20th consecutive victory in Breeders Crown". New Jersey On-Line. October 25, 2009. Retrieved November 3, 2009.
- ^ Three New Inductees to Living Hall, Standardbred Canada, Retrieved 14 February 2016
- 2006 racehorse births
- American Standardbred racehorses
- Harness Horse of the Year winners
- American Champion harness horses
- United States Harness Racing Hall of Fame inductees