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General Category => General Harness Racing Discussion => Topic started by: LVGaryD on March 24, 2015, 10:59:53 AM
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This tough little mare just keeps on winning and destroying very good mares. What a money making machine!
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I keep waiting for her to beat the top mares in the country... ??? ::)
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I keep waiting for her to beat the top mares in the country... ??? ::)
She nearly did beat Bee a Magician once. She probably would have beat her if she got loose earlier.
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She is a nice mare but Cowgirl Hall is still the best mare at the Meadows .
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Anaffairtoremember and Daylon Miracle both plan to challenge Cowgirl Halls dominance.. Miracle has been racing against the boys at the Meadows to help keep the Boys preferred going. We will give Cowgirl a run for her money even though I can understand we are the underdogs right now. Stay tuned for an exciting year of trotting at the Meadows.
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She is a nice mare but Cowgirl Hall is still the best mare at the Meadows .
Better than Designed To Be ? yeahbabydrinkingguy
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Better than Designed To Be ? yeahbabydrinkingguy
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Hey Gazoo, can we change your mind?
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Nice race this coming Friday. Good luck against Shake it Cerry thumbsup
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Thanks, she and Miracle are both in there and they both trained well this weekend.
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BERCURY SENDS DUO TO CHALLENGE STARS IN FRIDAY’S THE MEADOWS MATURITY
WASHINGTON, PA, March 24, 2015 — Friday’s inaugural staging of the $51,100 The Meadows Maturity for older distaff trotters has attracted two of harness racing’s superstars — 2014 Trotter of the Year Shake It Cerry and 2014 Mare Trotter of the Year Classic Martine. But locally based horsemen aren’t backing off. Instead, they’re sending out The Meadows’ female trotting elite — Daylon Miracle, Anaffairtoremember, Cowgirl Hall and Whata Donato — to challenge the glamor girls.
Bill Bercury, who owns and trains Daylon Miracle and Anaffairtoremember, insists he’s racing for more than a check and a moral victory.
“I’m in it to win it,” he said. “A win and a second would be perfect.”
Bercury, a retired auto dealer who still operates a home construction business, has the track record to lend credibility to his remarks. While some horsemen concentrate on stakes candidates and others play the claiming game, Bercury has a different approach. He locates proven, quality performers, pays market rates for them and hopes to recoup his investment and then some. Usually, he does.
“There’s a lot of money in harness racing now,” he said. “Investing $100,000 in a horse is really not a gamble, whereas five or 10 years ago, if you invested $100,000 in a yearling, that was a gamble. I’m buying proven animals; we’re asking them to do what they did before. If we can improve them just a bit, we’ll do very, very well with them.”
Both Daylon Marvel and Anaffairtoremember fit the Bercury profile. He paid $150,000 for Daylon Miracle, a 6-year-old daughter of Pegasus Spur-Daylon Marvel — after she had amassed a considerable bank account in Canada. She earned more than $165,000 for Bercury last year alone and routinely faces, and defeats, male rivals.
“Did I overpay for her? Maybe a little bit. Will I make money on her? Absolutely. I’d rather overpay for a really nice horse than get a good deal on a horse that won’t be competitive.”
The acquisition price for Anaffairtoremember was slightly more modest — $90,000 — but she, too has panned out. The 5-year-old daughter of Angus Hall-Val Lee Woman has won three races and $41,625 already this season.
“She likes to follow a helmet, and after she follows it, she sprints pretty hard,” Bercury said. “I don’t know if she’s a top horse, but she loves her work, and she’s easy to work with.”
Bercury said his reputation for purchasing quality and paying fair prices generates many queries from prospective sellers, so many that he doesn’t need an intermediary to scout talent for him.
“When people realize that you’re a player and you don’t jerk them around, they call you,” he said.
And he indicated his many years buying and selling cars have helped him in his pursuit of equine stars.
“Something well bought is half sold,” he said.
The Maturity goes as race 9 on Friday’s card, and it will follow the $33,700 championship of the Do Me Honor Pace for sophomore fillies. (Do Me Honor, by the way, is yet another current standout Bercury acquired using his tried-and-true methodology.) First post is 6:55 PM.
By: Evan Pattak
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she raced awesome tonight, congrats
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Both mares are some kind of nice mares. I watched the race wrong initially on my tiny screen. I was cussing Mike Wilder. After I watched the replay, it was not Mike I was watching the first time-and that he drove her absolutely perfectly. (Sorry Mike!)
Daylon Miracle got the trip and made them all pay. Anaffairtoremember pulled first up and hung very tough.
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“I’m in it to win it,” he said. “A win and a second would be perfect.”
Would you settle for a win and third? Congratulations thumbsup
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We couldn't have been happier. Thanks everone for the congrats.
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Notice that Cowgirl Hall was second edging out Anaffairtoremember by a nose hair, These three mares are the best of three at the Meadows at this time!
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She nearly did beat Bee a Magician once. She probably would have beat her if she got loose earlier.
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All she does is make money for Samstar. Won again today in 1:54.2 in the slop. Just wait till she really gets good.
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