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It’s not unusual for music to be part of an athlete’s daily training routine. Even when the athlete is a horse. In this case, the 2021 U.S. Trotter of the Year, Jujubee.

The Omni Bedford Springs Resort, in the southwestern Pennsylvania city of Bedford, hosted the annual Pennsylvania Fair Awards banquet on Saturday (Jan. 22).

Jon Erdner has been involved in harness racing for some four decades, and bred horses for nearly as long, but never enjoyed a year like he did in 2021 with Dan Patch Award-winning trotter Jujubee.

There were question marks surrounding Jujubee after his win streak was snapped in his Breeders Crown elimination, but the sophomore trotter rewarded the faith of his connections with a determined victory in the $650,000 Breeders Crown Final for three-year-old male trotters on Saturday (Oct. 30) at The Meadowlands.

Jujubee and Whiskey Blu, old rivals from a spring late-closer event, showed how well they’ve developed Friday at The Meadows, as each captured a division of the Super Bowl, a $147,706 Pennsylvania Sires Stake that wraps up the four preliminary legs in the series for three-year-old colt and gelding trotters. With two wins and as many seconds, Jujubee cemented a berth in the $250,000 championship while Whiskey Blu’s two victories likely will earn him a slot. All four finals for sophomores are set for Sept. 4 at Pocono. Jujubee quarter-poled to the top for Tony Hall and never had an anxious ...