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East Rutherford, NJ – Top three remain the same (Amigo Volo, Real Cool Sam & Hypnotic AM) in Ken Warkentin’s Road to the Hambletonian Week 5.
| Rank | Horse | Driver, Trainer, Owner | Ken Warkentin’s Comments |
| 1 | Amigo Volo
(Father Patrick) |
Dexter Dunn, Nifty Norman, Pinske Stables, David J. Miller | Breeders Crown winner at two finished sixth [1:52.3] when forced wide off a slow pace & trotted home in :26.2 as the beaten favorite in a $25,000 overnight @ Big M on June 27 |
| 2 | Real Cool Sam
(Muscle Hill) |
Dave Miller, Jim Campbell, Fashion Farms LLC | Dan Patch Award & Peter Haughton Memorial winner broke in his first Big M qualifier on June 20, rebounded with a second [1:53.1] in a Big M qualifier on June 27 with a final quarter in :26.3, back in to qualify @ Big M on July 3 |
| 3 | Hypnotic AM
(Chapter Seven) |
Brian Sears, Marcus Melander, Courant Inc. | NYSS champion & Jim Doherty Memorial winner unleashed an ultra impressive 1:51.1 [:27.3] in her 3YO debut on June 12, cruised in a NYSS @ Tioga Downs on June 21 in 1:54.2, drew post 9 in EBC @ Vernon Downs on July 4 |
| 4 | Back Of The Neck
(Ready Cash) |
Scott Zeron, Ake Svanstedt, Howard Taylor, Order By Stable, Judith Taylor | Son of two-time Prix D’Amerique winner Ready Cash now with Team Svanstedt, won a Big M qualifier on June 20 in 1:53.4, set the pace & second by a nose in 1:51.2 [:26] in a $25,000 overnight @ Big M on June 27 |
| 5 | Synergy
(Father Patrick) |
Andrew McCarthy, Per Engblom, Brittany Farms, John Fielding, Herb Liverman & David Anderson | Qualified three times, the latest a second by a head in 1:54 [:26.2] @ Big M on June 20, third [1:52.1] in a $25,000 overnight @ Big M on June 27 in his 3YO debut |
| 6 | Big Oil
(Father Patrick) |
Andy & Julie Miller, Jason, Doug & Ron Allen | First in a deadheat with Real Cool Sam in 1:52.1 @ The Red Mile at two, 1:53.3 winner in a Big M qualifier on June 12, wire-to-wire in 1:55 in his 3YO debut in an overnight @ Harrah’s Philadelphia on June 28 |
| 7 | Capricornus
(Cantab Hall) |
Tim Tetrick, Marcus Melander, JJ Racing Stable, Inc | Second in the William Wellwood Memorial at two, second [1:52.4] in his 2020 debut on June 5, finished second [1:53.4] in an overnight @ Harrah’s Philadelphia on June 25 |
| 8 | Third Shift
(Chapter Seven) |
Ake Svanstedt, Mellby Gard, Inc., Ake Svanstedt | Set a stakes & Batavia Downs track record of 1:56 in the NYSS Final at two, won a Big M qualifier in 1:55 on May 30, won a NYSS division @ Vernon Downs on June 24 in 1:54.2, has the rail in EBC division @ Vernon Downs on July 4 |
| 9 | Chestnut Hill
(Muscle Hill) |
Dave Miller, Nifty Norman, Melvin Hartman, David McDuffee, Little E LLC | Stablemate to Amigo Volo finished third in the PASS Final, Breeders Crown & Valley Victory at two, won his 2020 debut @ The Big M on June 19 in 1:53.1 [:26.1] |
| 10 | Maesteraemon
(Andover Hall) |
Brian Sears, Marcus Melander, S R F Stable | Gives Melander three in the Top Ten, took a mark of 1:52.4 @ The Red Mile, won two Big M qualifiers in 1:53.3 [:26.4] and in 1:54 [:26.3], fifth [1:52.2] in a $25,000 overnight @ Big M on June 27 |
