Hambletonian Weekend 2009

RACE 2 - Meadowlands - NJ - August 8, 2022 Conditions: MERRIE ANNABELLE - FINAL 2 Year Old Fillies Gait: Trot Purse: $525,800 Class: MAnnabelle Distance: 1 Mile Planned Post Time: 12:50 PM N:r Plac. H�st H�rstamning Kusk Tr�nare Tid Dist. Odds Pris 3 1 Poof She's Gone Kadabra - Travelin Superlite David Miller Richard Norman 1:55.1 1609 72 262 900 2 2 Costa Rica Muscles Yankee - Examination Ron Pierce Jimmy Takter 1:55.2 1609 58 131 450 1 3 Bone A Fide Sj's Photo - On The Bones Yannick Gingras Ronald Burke 1:55.2 1609 150 63 096 4 4 Cantab It All Cantab Hall - Better Odds John Campbell Jimmy Takter 1:55.2 1609 19 42 064 7 5 Behindclosedoors Andover Hall - Margarita Nights Tim Tetrick Chuck Sylvester 1:55.4 1609 58 26 290 9 0 Spicy Wings Andover Hall - Angel Fire Hanover Brian Sears Ross Croghan 1:55.4g 1609 305 6 0 Ipo Blue Chip Yankee Glide - Paloma Hanover Andy Miller Julie Miller 1:56.4 1609 424 10 0 In The Mean Time Muscles Yankee - Soutaine Hanover Mike Lachance Chuck Sylvester 2:04.3 1609 251 5 0 Nimble Kronos Viking Kronos - Twiggy Fc Luc Ouellette Lutfi Kolgjini 2:09.1g 1609 408 8 d Action-Broadway Broadway Hall - Photo - With Molly George Brennan Virgil Morgan J:r dg 1609 730

East Rutherford, NJ --- Just like that -- Poof She�s Gone passed Costa Rica in deep stretch to win the $525,800 Merrie Annabelle for 2-year-old trotting fillies on Saturday afternoon at The Meadowlands by three-quarters of a length in 1:55.1, equaling the stakes record. The daughter of Kadabra-Travelin Superlite was driven by David Miller for trainer Richard Norman.

USTA/Mark Hall photo

Poof She�s Gone won the $525,800 Merrie Annabelle for 2-year-old trotting fillies on Saturday afternoon at The Meadowlands in 1:55.1.

Poof She�s Gone was well off the early pace set by Bone A Fide (Yannick Gingras) in :28.1. IPO Blue Chip (Andy Miller) was off the rail and moving just after the quarter-mile marker. She held the lead until the :56.2 half when Costa Rica and Ron Pierce moved to the lead and took over at the five-eighths-mile marker. Those two held that lead through the turn and into the homestretch, when the field closed in on them.

Emerging from the pack to take and hold the lead to the wire was Poof She�s Gone. "We planned going into the race, trying to race her from off the cover," said David Miller. "It just worked out, things were wide and clear, it just opened up. She likes to chase horses down and she won�t stop until she gets there. She�s pretty mature, mentally. She has the right mentality to be a good horse and she just proved it again."

Poof She�s Gone is owned by Melvin Hartman, Herb Liverman, David McDuffee and John Fielding, who was jubilant in the winner's circle. �This is what it�s all about, these kinds of days here,� said Fielding. �Training down, Nifty (trainer Richard Norman) said she�s got the stuff to do it.�

The order of finish behind Poof She�s Gone was Costa Rica, Bone A Fide, Cantab It All and Spicy Wings, who crossed the wire in sixth but was placed up to fifth because of Spicy Wings finishing fifth but making a break at the wiree