Atlanta may return in 2022 after $175,000 TVG Trot

Lexington, KY — Although she currently stands third on the seasonal earnings list for trotting mares with $398,949, with a victory in Saturday night’s (Nov. 20) $175,000 TVG Mares Trot at The Meadowlands, Atlanta would send her total to $486,449 and secure honors as the richest of her division for the fourth consecutive year.

Her current earnings trifecta began in her Hambletonian-winning season as a 3-year-old in 2018, and has continued the past two years as a 4- and 5-year-old.

Atlanta comes into the TVG with 31 wins in 62 career starts, and if there was any question if Atlanta would race at age seven in 2022, trainer Ron Burke quickly put that to rest.

“This is her last start this year, but she’s racing next year,” said Burke. “I think she has one more great year in her — at least. As far as I know, it’s full steam ahead for next year.”

Atlanta comes into Saturday’s Mares Trot — one of four TVG championships on the card in the stakes finale for older horses in 2021 — with six wins in 11 starts, including a world record-equaling 1:49 win in the Allerage on Oct. 10 at The Red Mile. The mile was the fastest ever by a female trotter, tying the mark established by Manchego in 2019, also at The Red Mile.

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