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After a year at stud and on the racetrack primarily in New Brunswick in 2021, stakes winning pacer Blood Money will set up shop in a new province with a new trainer in 2022.
Harness racing returns to New Brunswick on Saturday afternoon (May 8), as Exhibition Park Raceway, in Saint John, will raise the curtain on its 18-day 2021 meeting. The five-race program is highlighted by a $1,600 winners-over pace, carded as the finale. Black-type performer Blood Money brings impressive credentials into his New Brunswick debut, and will start from the outside post in the field of five with Mitchell Downey at the helm for trainer Ellen Stevenson. The son of Sweet Lou won the 2018 Matron Stakes as a rookie, along with stakes races in the Pennsylvania and Kentucky programs, too...
Dr. Mitchell Downey had to pinch himself when he was able to obtain regally-bred stakes-winning pacer Blood Money from the Standardbred Horse Sales Company's 2020 Mixed Sale. When it came time to review the catalogue, he turned the page down on Blood Money but he didn't think he would actually get to own him. "I really had my heart set on bidding on a horse later in the sale (than Blood Money)." explained Dr. Downey. "Turned out that horse ended up being out of the sale". Having bid on two other horses prior to Blood Money entering the sales ring, he really thought the horse would go for m...