Lucky Chucky and Costa Rica, both bred by the Perretti Farms of Cream Ridge, NJ, swept the two-year-old trotting stakes on Sunday at Harrah's Chester Racetrack
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Lucky Chucky, a son of Windsongs Legacy-Aerobics, had the lead at every call and captured the $450,000 Valley Victory by a length over Pilgrims Taj in 1:56 flat in the tenth race. John Campbell was at the lines for the Chuck Sylvester-trained Lucky Chucky.
The trotting colt now has five wins in six starts this year, including divisions of the Harriman, Peter Haughton elims and his Valley Victory qualifier. His only loss was a third-place finish in the $523,600 final of the Peter Haughton on Hambletonian Day at the Meadowlands.
A $10,000 Harrisburg Sale purchase, he has banked $330,596 for Sylvester and partners Neal Goldman of Washington Township, NJ and Amy Lynn Stoltzfus of Williamstown, NJ.
Two races earlier, Costa Rica, a daughter of Muscles Yankee-Examination scored in the $450,000 Goldsmith Maid, holding off In The Mean Time, also by Muscles Yankee, in a stakes record 1:56.2.
Driven by Ron Pierce and trained by Jimmy Takter, Costa Rica was a $23,000 Harrisburg Sale purchase who has been first or second in all nine starts this year while earning $557,230 in the process.
Her victories included both New Jersey Sires Stakes Championship Finals - the $200,000 event at the Meadowlands on July 23 and the $100,000 at Freehold on August 26. She also won her Merrie Annabelle elim before finishing second in the $525,800 final on August 8. Costa Rica is owned by Christina Takter of East Windsor, NJ and John and Jim Fielding of Toronto, Ontario.
(SBOANJ)