So we approach Year 2 of the Crabcake Zillions\/ Mountain State Classics, set this year for Saturday, October 18th.\u00a0 Races take place in both sim Maryland and sim West Virginia.\u00a0 This is the date that the real life state-bred stakes races take place at Laurel and Charles Town.<\/p>\n
The races are open to all horses bred in the sim region (MD, NJ, MA, NH, ME, CT, WV).\u00a0 You need not be a member of the Megalopolis Racing Circuit.\u00a0 But bear in mind that these races are purchased with the credits earned through residency membership.\u00a0 So thanks to all the members this year, and if you aren’t a member, why not throw us a stable of support?<\/p>\n
Before we get to a rundown of the Crabcake Zillions\/ Mountain State Classics races, I have one other important announcement to make – another stakes race that IS restricted to our residency members.\u00a0 I hope all the residency participants had fun with the Kill Van Kull this summer, which was an “invitational” modeled after the Haskell.\u00a0 For this fall, I have added a turf route stakes for the residency members (not restricted by breeding location), who can enter any horse from their master stable.\u00a0 This is the DC International Invitational, at twelve furlongs three years old and up, in Maryland on Saturday, November 8, 2014.\u00a0 For some decades, Laurel Park ran the Washington DC International, an invitational turf race that brought runners from many countries, including the Soviet Union.\u00a0 So let’s celebrate that history with a little tussle on the turf.\u00a0 Bring your good grass horses who maybe aren’t up to the Breeders Bowl level.\u00a0 I’ll send out the password to residency members soon.<\/p>\n
Fields are already assembling for the Crabcake Zillions\/ Mountain State Classics.\u00a0 Get your local bred entered and training for the races on October 18th.\u00a0 Here’s the lineup:<\/p>\n
In Maryland:<\/em><\/p>\n Bullet Catcher Marathon – 14 f Dirt Open<\/p>\n Jeffrey Maier Juvenile Honoring Beisbol – 7 f Dirt Open<\/p>\n Hoover in a Skirt Ladies Turf – 9 f Turf Female<\/p>\n The Franks Energy Drink Girls Sprint – 6 f Dirt Female<\/p>\n Crabcake Zillions Classic – 9 f Dirt Open<\/p>\n In West Virginia:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Dolly Sods Turf Sprint\u00a0 – 5.5 f Turf Open<\/p>\n Coalminers Daughter Juvenile Filly – 7 f Dirt Female<\/p>\n Black CVBear Turf Classic – 9 f Turf Open<\/p>\n Hold Your Taters Dash – 6 f Dirt Open<\/p>\n Bushy Tailed Distaff\u00a0 – 9 f Dirt Female<\/p>\n I celebrated my birthday back on September 24th with some allowance prep races for the big Zillions day.\u00a0 In the Zillions prep, sophomores did best, with CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE <\/b>beating last year’s Meier Juvenile winner CROSSING TO WIN.<\/b>\u00a0 MEDITERRANEAN Z<\/b> won the distaff prep off a sharp claim, running a route for the first time.\u00a0 It remains to be seen if LORD SUCKFEST<\/b> will show up in the Hold Your Taters to try to repeat his wire-to-wire win in the sprint prep.\u00a0 It was a wire job as well in the filly sprint prep, with BALTIMORE AGAIN<\/b> taking the honors.\u00a0 POTRA SALVAJE<\/b> was second to NICE BEING HERE<\/b> earlier this summer in the Ho-Ho-Kus, but without that rival, she got the job done in the female turf prep.\u00a0 Megalopolis veteran FAX SAFETY <\/b>took advantage of a short field and the faltering of favorite CHARTOM<\/b> to take the marathon prep.\u00a0 The juvenile fillies were closely matched, but FRIESAN NATION<\/b> came out on top.\u00a0 Among the juvenile colts, HUNTING JADE WARS<\/b> bounced back from his disappointing Stripling loss with a come from behind move.\u00a0 Finally, only four turf sprinters showed up, and CANTON<\/b> <\/b>BEACH<\/b> took the prep as the very heavy favorite.<\/p>\n Congratulations to the prep winners, and hope to see you at the Zillions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So we approach Year 2 of the Crabcake Zillions\/ Mountain State Classics, set this year for Saturday, October 18th.\u00a0 Races<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25577,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25571\/revisions\/25577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}