New Jersey Classic Pace

New Jersey Classic Pace
Location East Rutherford, New Jersey
Inaugurated 1980
Race type Harness race for Standardbred pacers
Website Meadowlands Racing & Entertainment
Race information
Distance 1 mile
(1,609 metres or 8 furlongs)
Surface Dirt, 1 mile oval
Track Meadowlands Racetrack
Purse $150,000 (2016)

The New Jersey Classic is a race for Standardbred racehorses run annually since 1980 at the Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Open to New Jersey-sired 3-Year-Old Colt & Gelding pacers, it is run over a distance of one mile.[1]

Historical race events

1981 Classic winner Caramore was bred and owned by Father Thomas J. O'Connor, pastor at St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church in Freehold Township, New Jersey who owned and bred more than eighty horses.[2]

Records

Most wins by a driver
Most wins by a trainer
Stakes record

New Jersey Classic Pace winners

Year
Winner
Driver
Trainer
Owner
Time
Purse
2016 Dontcallmefrancis Yannick Gingras Ron Burke Burke Racing Stable LLC, Weaver Bruscemi LLC, Phillip Collura 1:51 0/0 $150,000
2015 Split The House Randy Waples James Dean James Dean, Scott Horner, Peter Milligan 1:48 3/5 $200,000
2014 Sweet Rock Brett Miller Wayne Givens Legacy Racing of DE Inc, Reginald Hazzard II, Gary Calloway 1:49 4/5 $225,000
2013 Lucan Hanover David MIller Casie Coleman West Wins Stable (Ross Warriner), Christine Calhoun 1:48 3/5 $250,000
2012 Panther Hanover Sylvain Filion James Dean James Carr 1:47 2/5 $275,000
2011 Big Jim Phil Hudon James Dean James Carr 1:51 0/0 $400,000
2010 Bg's Folly Brian Sears George Berkner Ginny Berkner, Martin Goldman, Chad Aaron, William Salmeri 1:49 1/5 $500,000
2009 Passmaster Hanover Tim Tetrick Blair Burgess Brittany Farms & Jeffrey S. Snyder 1:50 2/5 $500,000
2008 McCedes Catello Manzi Christopher J. Ryder Christopher J. Ryder & Jerry Silva 1:49 4/5 $500,000
2007 Fresh Deck John Campbell Joe Holloway Val D'or Farms, Ted Gewertz, Schoor-Racing Stable 1:49 4/5 $500,000
2006 Feelin Friskie John Campbell Scott Bell Wayne Whebby 1:49 1/5 $500,000
2005 Rocknroll Hanover Brian Sears Brett Pelling Jeffrey S. Snyder, Lothlorien Equestrian Center (Phyllis A. Campbell) 1:51 0/0 $500,000
2004 Modern Art David Miller Joe Holloway Val D’Or Farms, Milton & Martha Frank, & Ted Gewertz 1:50 2/5 $500,000
2003 Artesian Michel Lachance Cosmo De Pinto Cosmo De Pinto 1:50 4/5 $500,000
2002 McArdle Catello Manzi Christopher J. Ryder Norman & Gerald Smiley, Tip Stables, Sampson Street Stables 1:50 1/5 $500,000
2001 Bettor's Delight Michel Lachance Scott McEneny John B. Grant 1:50 0/0 $500,000
2000 Riverboat King Jim Morrill, Jr. Steve Elliott Paul L. Bordogna 1:50 1/5 $500,000
1999 Art's Conquest Michel Lachance Brett Pelling 1:50 0/0 $500,000
1998 Shady Character Michel Lachance Brett Pelling Sanford & Corinne Goldfarb 1:51 1/5 $500,000
1997 Arturo Luc Ouellette Steven LeBlanc 1:51 2/5 $500,000
1996 Falcons Scooter Ray Remmen Larry Remmen Leonard Kolschowsky 1:52 0/0 $500,000
1995 Jenna's Beach Boy William Fahy Joe Holloway L&L DeVisser Partnership 1:50 4/5 $500,000
1994 Cam's Card Shark John Campbell William Robinson Jeffrey S. Snyder 1:51 0/0 $500,000
1993 Presidential Ball Ron Waples William Robinson Antonio Chiaravalle 1:51 4/5 $500,000
1992 Western Hanover William Fahy Gene Riegle George Segal 1:50 4/5 $500,000
1991 Die Laughing Richard Silverman Roger Goldstein Alnoff Stable & Val D'Or Farms 1:51 4/5 $500,000
1990 Too Good Michel Lachance Ronald Knigge Ronald & Constance Knigge 1:52 0/0 $421,970
1989 Dexter Nukes John Campbell George Gilmour Thomas A. Dexter 1:53 2/5 $500,000
1988 Matt's Scooter William "Buddy" Gilmour Harry J. Poulton Gordon & Illa Rumpel, Charles Juravinski 1:52 0/0 $500,000
1987 Jate Lobell Mark O'Mara Mark O'Mara Joe McCluskey & Kentuckiana Farms 1:51 2/5 $500,000
1986 Awesome Almahurst Michael Gagliardi Michael Gagliardi Backcourt Stables, Art Phillips, Larry McAllister, Bob Vinecomb 1:53 3/5 $470,785
1985 Markim's Pride Bill O'Donnell Fred Grant Harold Housman 1:54 0/0 $500,000
1984 On The Road Again William "Buddy" Gilmour Harry J. Poulton Gordon & Illa Rumpel 1:53 3/5 $460,000
1983 Allwin Steady Bill O'Donnell William Robinson 1:54 4/5 $537,000
1982 Pitt Boy Jim Doherty Frank Giangrande Frank & Judy Giangrande 1:54 4/5 $519,000
1981 Caramore Catello Manzi Howard B. Camden Rev. Fr. Thomas J. O'Connor 1:57 0/0 $265,000
1980 Bold Rush John Campbell Fern Paquet Dr. J. Richard Feldman, et al. 1:55 4/5 $300,000

References

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