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While he showed his usual talent, there was something different about 2019 Horse of the Year Forbidden Trade in his Saturday morning qualifying effort at The Meadowlands. During an 11-dash card of qualifiers at The Big M, one qualifying event definitely contained the most star power despite being reduced to a three-horse field. The group of older trotters included 2019 Hambletonian winner and Canada s Horse of the Year Forbidden Trade, 2020 Hambletonian winner and U.S. Three-Year-Old Trotting Filly of the Year Ramona Hill, and multiple world record holder and two-time divisional champion stateside Amigo Volo. All three of these horses were qualifying for the second time in 2021, with all three finishing back of When Dovescry in a 1:56.4 qualifier last Friday. ....
The Meadowlands will again host some of the sport’s top prospects, but this time with an expanded roster of stakes talent hitting the track. A 16-qualifier session on Saturday morning (April 24) begins with three-year-old trotting fillies, with $400,000 yearling and full-sister to The Ice Dutchess, The Ice Countess ($2,500, 1:56.3M), going to post. Todd McCarthy will steer the Tony Alagna trainee as she makes just the fourth start of her career. She’ll be followed in the next qualifier by several other prominent Hambletonian Oaks eligible including Hello I Love You ($105,987, 1:54.2M), Illuminata ($131,933, 1:54.4F) and Pub Crawl ($225,725, 1:53.4M). Breeders Crown elimination winner and final runner-up In Range ($411,003, 1:54.1S) returns to the track in the third qualifier against Peter Haughton winner Zenith Stride ($226,168, 1:53.2M), who will go his second qualifying mile of the year. Tim Tetrick steers In Range for trainer Marcus Melander, while Brian Sears will ....