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ar-old New Jersey-sired trotters kicked off Meadowlands Pace Night with Guess Whos Back and filly Mission Brief winning their respective $100,000 New Jersey Sires Stakes Finals.


Guess Whos Back stormed home from off-the-pace to capture the two-year-old trotting colt final in a career-best 1:56.1 with Brian Sears aboard for trainer Nikolas Drennan. The Muscles Yankee-Shes Gone Again colt is owned by Joseph Davino of Clarksburg, New Jersey and Brad Shackman of Calgary, Alta.

 

Heavy 1-5 favourite Mission Brief broke her own NJSS record of 1:55.1 with a 1:53.3 wrapped up victory in the final for freshman trotting fillies with Gingras along for the ride. The Muscle Hill-Southwind Serena filly is owned by trainer Ron Burke's Burke Racing Stable, Our Horse Cents Stables, J And T Silva Stables and Weaver Bruscemi.

 

"We've know all along she's very talented, it's just keeping her head on straight," said Burke of the filly that won by more than 13 lengths. "She's so willing on her own, we're really going to have to keep her under control."

 

Driven by Scott Zeron, Western Ideal offspring swept the $100,000 New Jersey Sire Stakes Finals for two-year-old pacers, which concluded the Saturday stakes action.

 

The favoured Tony Alagna trainee, Artspeak, journeyed first over in the two-year-old pacing colt and gelding final for his second straight win in as many starts. The Western Ideal-The Art Museum colt took a new mark of 1:52.3. He's owned by breeder Brittany Farms of Versailles, Kentucky, Marvin Katz of Toronto, Ont., Joe Sbrocco of Brecksville, Ohio and In The Gym Partners of Staten Island, New York.

 

Favourite Stacia Hanover also kept her perfect record untarnished in three starts with a career-best 1:53.4 triumph in the freshman pacing filly final. Steve Elliott trains the Western Ideal-Stolly Up Bluechip filly, who was a wire-to-wire winner, for David Van Dusen and Michael Cimaglio.