Harness Horse of the Year being bred to Capt Midnight

It has been announced by harness racing’s Kountry Lane Standardbreds, LLC of Indiana, that the 2019 Harness Horse of the Year, Shartin N (Tintin In America), will be bred in 2023 to Capt Midnight (Captaintreacherous – It Was Fascination – American Ideal).

Currently, Shartin N has a yearling filly by world champion Captaintreacherous and is due to foal this month, the resulting foal also sired by Captaintreacherous.

In a glittering harness racing career, the world champion mare won 46 of her 68 lifetime starts and $2,667,563 in purses- an average of $39,228 per start.

Shartin N put an exclamation mark on her 2019 career in August when she produced a jaw-dropping world record performance to win the $183,500 Lady Liberty at The Meadowlands, carving out the mile in 1:46.4 – 0.6 faster than the prior world mark. She also became the fastest Standardbred horse ever bred in New Zealand.

A month later Shartin N set another world record for mares on a five-eighths track when she was clocked in 1:48 at Harrah’s Philadelphia in a $30,000 Open Pace.

SHARTIN N 1:46.4 MILE REPLAY

Capt Midnight p,2,1:49.4s; 3,1:48.3s, BT 1:47.2m ($551,567) stands stud at Premier Aces in Indiana for a fee of $5,000 in 2023. His first two breeding seasons were booked full and closed. For more information Premier Aces, click here.

“Capt Midnight was a talented 2 and 3-year-old racing against the best of his class Tall Dark Stranger and Papi Rob Hanover,” said Tony Alagna, Capt Midnight’s trainer. “With his pedigree, conformation and natural ability he will make his presence felt in Indiana and equally on the national scene as well.

“We will be buying yearlings from his first crop,” Alagna added.

Shartin N is owned by Kountry Lane Standardbreds, LLC.

by Steve Wolf, for Kountry Lane Standardbreds