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Twin B Joe Fresh Sets Scioto Track Record

August 19, 2024

The Saturday card at Eldorado Scioto Downs on August 17 started off hot with a 1:49 opening race but even a power surge delay followed by a rain delay couldn’t dampen the racing events to come later in the card. Twin B Joe Fresh took the $136,987 Cleopatra Invitational for older mares, setting a new track record for female pacers of 1:48.2 while Seafire, a four-year-old Ohio-sired horse, won the $136,987 #SendItIn Invitational pace for older pacers in 1:48.


In the Cleopatra, Man Dontforgetme (Tyler Smith) took the early lead with Grace Hill (Hanners) settling in the pocket. Strong Poison (Noble) made an early move heading to the :26 opening quarter and made the lead just before they went under the line for the first time. Twin B Joe Fresh and Brett Miller, who floated away fourth from the rail, pulled at the :53.4 half, and by the 1:21 third-quarter was head-to-head with Strong Poison. Man Dontforget Me pulled from third to try and track down the leader but couldn’t quite get there, as Twin B Joe Fresh won by a length and a half; Zanatta (Eric Goodell) was third.


“I felt like a kid from the day before Christmas,” said winning driver Miller, when asked how he felt getting the call to drive Twin B Joe Fresh.

 

“Dex (Dunn) told me all about her…she come first up and he said that she could just grind out there and take care of business and she did. I never even popped her ear plugs, she felt like she could have went much more.”


Twin B Joe Fresh, a four-year-old mare by Roll With Joe out of the Captaintreacherous mare Fresh Breeze, was bred by Brittany Farms. The Chris Ryder trainee now has $2,032,074 earned lifetime and has seven wins in eight seasonal starts. Twin B Joe Fresh is owned by Chris Ryder, Dexter Dunn, Peter Trebotica and Barry Spak.


In the #SendItIn, Carbine (Austin Hanners) rolled to the :25.2 opening quarter from the rail with Artatac A (Dan Noble) getting the pocket trip. At the :53.3 half Artatac A, pulled and brought along Seafire (Ronnie Wrenn, Jr.) second over. Sprinting by the 1:20.2 third-quarter, Artatac A had made the lead which left Seafire with open track to sprint to the lead and win by two and three-quarter lengths in a new lifetime mark of 1:48. Buzzsaw Russ (Dave Palone) followed the Seafire cover but just could not overcome the margin to be second. Artatac A held on for third.


“I just wanted to use my post position to get away well and I was able to do so,” said Wrenn, Jr. “When Danny popped the pocket at the half, I was happy to be second over and luckily for me Danny’s horse cleared…at the three-quarter pole and my horse responded well.


“I was a little nervous, Buzzsaw Russ is a really nice horse and he sat behind me and I thought he had a lot of pace and he did. Luckily Brian’s done a good job with Seafire and he raced really well.”


Seafire, by Downbytheseaside out of the Towners Big Guy mare Wildfire Princess, was bred by Enos Weaver. Owned by Country Club Aces, Joelyn Ridder, Mark Kantrowitz and Scott Davis, Seafire now has $274,968 in lifetime earnings with seven victories this season in 11 starts.


There was a lot of movement in each of the two $89,041 divisions of the Ohio Sires Stakes for two-year-old filly trotters. Dream Something (Smith) took the first division in 1:55.4 and Rose Run Allison (Noble) took the second division in 1:57.


In the first division, Brink Street (Wrenn, Jr.) was the first to make the front going to the :28.1 opening quarter. Dave Palone pulled Freedom Hill first up and made the lead before going under the wire for the first time. Aunt Laura (Miller) was then first up heading to the :57 half and made the lead halfway down the backside. Dublins Dragonfly (Noble) applied pressure going to the 1:25.2 third quarter and around the last turn Brink Street came back to be three-wide with Dream Something four-wide. Dream Something and Aunt Laura battled it out down the stretch with Dream Something winning by a neck; Mega Money (Trevor Smith) got up for third.


The mile was a new lifetime mark for Dream Something, trained by Miles Wollam who co-owns with Julie Ann and Dale Sweet. The filly, by Uncle Peter out of the Glidemaster mare Travelin Dream, who was a $30,000 Ohio Select Sale purchase, now has three wins in five lifetime starts and $109,350 in earnings.


In the second division, Up (Chris Lems) took the early lead before the :29.2 quarter. Rose Run Allison pulled first up mid-way through the turn and made the lead, but stablemate Mocha Hill (Wrenn, Jr.) was quick to take over before the :59.1 half. Move Over Boys (Matthew Brown) made a quick bid to challenge from fifth but couldn’t make the top by the 1:28 third quarter. Rose Run Allison came out of the pocket and won by a length and a half over Mocha Hill. Aunt Lilly (Ty. Smith), who came three-wide around the last turn, was third.


Ron Burke trains Rose Run Allison for Burke Racing, Hatfield Stables, Knox Services and Beasty LLC. The filly by Long Tom out of the Broadway Hall mare Rose Run Timeless was a $105,000 Ohio Select Sale purchase and has now made $158,975 in five lifetime starts with three wins.

There were also three $41,096 open events held on the under card at Scioto. Alexa Skye (Noble) took the Filly & Mare Open Pace in her 100th lifetime start in 1:50.2. The seven-year-old mare by Somebeachsomewhere is trained by Virgil Morgan, Jr. for owners by Let It Ride and Odds On Racing. Her 31st lifetime win pushed her earnings to $673,511.


Flemsteen (Ty. Smith) overcame an early miscue to take the Open Trot in 1:53. The six-year-old gelded son by Explosive Matter is co-owned by trainer Chris Beaver, Bill Manes and RBH Ventures and now has 25 wins in 104 lifetime starts and $634,151 in earnings. Noble and Morgan, Jr. teamed up again to take the Open Pace with Chase H Hanover in 1:49.4. The six-year-old gelded son of Somebeachsomewhere is owned by Odds On Racing and Carl Howard. Chase H Hanover has 28 wins in 91 lifetime starts and more than $1.06 million in lifetime earnings.


The 90-day 2024 Eldorado Scioto Downs race meet runs through Saturday, Sept. 14.


(Scioto Downs)

Twin B Joe Fresh wins Older Pacing Mare O'Brien Award!

February 9, 2025
Standardbred Canada announced the winners of the 2024 O’Brien Awards, honouring Canada’s best in harness racing over the past season, at the Black Tie Gala on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025 in Mississauga, Ont. The event marked the 36th edition of the O’Brien Awards, named in honour of the late Joe O’Brien, an outstanding horseman from Prince Edward Island and member of the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame. In the Older Pacing Mare category, Twin B Joe Fresh has added another trophy to her impressive collection for 2024. The Roll With Joe-Fresh Breeze daughter was utterly dominant as a four-year-old, winning 11 of her 13 starts, including nine consecutive wins, eight of which were stakes finals. The Chris Ryder trainee collected $1,231,252 through her campaign, achieving her lifetime best of 1:47.3 at The Meadowlands in the Dorothy Haughton Memorial. She secured victories in both the Rose Are Red and Milton stakes at Woodbine Mohawk Park, with her largest payout coming from winning the $555,556 Breeders Crown.

Twin B Joe Fresh Gives Dunn Breeders Crown Record

October 27, 2024
Twin B Joe Fresh and driver Dexter Dunn capped off the Breeders Crown weekend in style at The Meadowlands. Dunn picked up his record-setting sixth driving victory of the weekend when he guided Twin B Joe Fresh to a 1:49 win in the $555,556 Mare Pace on Saturday, Oct. 26, the last of 12 Breeders Crown events hosted by The Big M over the weekend. Twin B Joe Fresh, harness racing’s No. 1-ranked horse, defeated Kobes Gigi and driver David Miller by 1-3/4 lengths, missing the stakes record by one-fifth of a second. Sylvia Hanover was third for Bob McClure. The triumph was the fourth of the night for Dunn and followed his two-victory performance Friday. His six wins set the Breeders Crown record for the most driving wins in a year, breaking the previous record of five set by David Miller in 2015 at Woodbine Racetrack. Dunn, a New Zealand native who moved to the U.S. in 2018, has won 21 Breeders Crowns since his debut in the series in 2019. His total is the eighth most in the 41-year history of the event. “It’s a thrill,” Dunn said. “Not in my wildest dreams did I think that this weekend would happen when I moved over here. I’ve had so much support, so many good horses to drive. It’s just been a great ride.” Dunn won Friday with two-year-old female pacer Miki And Minnie and two-year-old male trotter Maryland, then added Saturday wins with three-year-old female pacer My Girl EJ, three-year-old male pacer Mirage Hanover, four-year-old male trotter Winners Bet, and Twin B Joe Fresh. “I had a lot of great horses to drive this weekend, but it’s Breeders Crown, it’s not easy,” Dunn said. “It’s tough racing. You saw it tonight, there were a lot of tough miles. But the trainers had them ready and they performed.” Twin B Joe Fresh, owned by a group that includes Dunn and trainer Chris Ryder, performed much like she has all season. The four-year-old daughter of Roll With Joe-Fresh Breeze notched her 10th win of the season in 12 starts and upped her seasonal earnings to $1,134,488. She came into the Breeders Crown final off a second-place finish from post 10 in her elimination last week but left no doubt about Saturday’s outcome after taking the lead at the half and opening a 3-1/2 length lead in the stretch. “She felt so good tonight,” Dunn said. “Going to the gate, she was up on her tippy toes and that’s a sign she was ready to rock and roll. Coming around the last turn, she just felt so good. I called on her and she changed gears and sprinted off well.” Twin B Joe Fresh opened this season with a second-place finish against male foes before reeling off nine consecutive victories heading into her Breeders Crown elim. With her triumph in the Breeders Crown, she has won seven of the eight richest races of the season for pacing mares, including the Roses Are Red, Dayton Distaff Derby, and Milton Stakes. “I’ve been trying to take it one race at a time,” Ryder said. “Dexter has been looking after her, we really haven’t bottomed her out. Basically, we wanted to keep her good for this week. We had a hiccup last week, but we got over that. I was pretty sure she was a hundred percent tonight.” In addition to Dunn and Ryder, Twin B Joe Fresh is owned by longtime Ryder assistant Peter Trebotica and Barry Spak. “It means a lot,” said Ryder, who won two Breeders Crowns over the weekend. “It’s been very exciting all year. We started out the year and we were pretty confident with her. Then she started winning and kept winning and it’s just been fantastic. She’s got a lot of support. I just didn’t want to disappoint tonight. It’s a big relief for me.”  Bred by Brittany Farms, Twin B Joe Fresh has won 29 of 39 races and hit the board a total of 37 times. She has banked $2,589,952 lifetime. Sent off as the 1-9 favourite in the Mare Pace, she paid $2.10 to win.

THANK YOU LONDON CLASSIC YEARLING SALE PARTICIPANTS

October 17, 2024
Twinbrook would like to thank everyone who came out to inspect, bid on and/or bought from Twinbrook at the 2024 London Classic Yearling sale. Wishing everyone best of luck with their purchases. Photo: Twinbrook staff pictured with hip #104 Twin B Stanley (g, Cattlewash - Telltale Hanover)

Twin B Joe Fresh Leads Poll For 14th Straight Week

October 15, 2024
Twin B Joe Fresh stayed at No. 1 for the 14th consecutive week in the Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown poll with little movement in the Week 18 rankings released on Tuesday, Oct. 15. Twin B Joe Fresh held the top spot followed by Jiggy Jog S, whose connections announced the trotting mare's retirement on Monday. Chantilly, who added a divisional Ontario Sires Stakes Super Final title to her undefeated season, remained No. 3 in the rankings but picked up one first-place vote. Captain Albano and Karl rounded out the top five. The only shift occurred with Nijinsky, who also won his divisional Ontario Sires Stakes Super Final, moving up from seventh to sixth in a swap of positions with idle Maryland. The Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown poll, which will be released every Tuesday through the remainder of the Grand Circuit season, does not determine U.S. Horse of the Year. The members of the U.S. Harness Writers Association vote on all Dan Patch Award division winners plus Trotter of the Year, Pacer of the Year and Horse of the Year.  Rankings based on the votes of harness racing media representatives on a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis.

TWIN B HIGH TIDE WINS OHSS GRAY CHAMPIONSHIP

October 13, 2024
Hanners picked up his first title of the night in the Gray Championship for freshman colt and gelding pacers, Austin Hanners rallied Twin B High Tide (pictured) down the stretch to win in 1:53.4. Off the gate, Chris Lems hustled Downbythewater to the lead which he held for the first three-quarters with fractions of :28, :57,3, and 1:25.1. Hanners powered Twin B High Tide up the backstretch, pulling to the leader’s wheel around the final turn. As the two hit the top of the stretch, Hanners asked for more from the son of Downbytheseaside and the colt responded, reeling in Downbythewater, drawing away to win by three lengths. The Onyx Dragon finished second with Downbythewater third. “This horse he has a huge motor,” said Hanners. “When I asked him, he gave me everything he had. He’s been awesome. This means everything to us. We finished out the way we wanted to.”  It was the fifth win of the year for Twin B High Tide who is trained by Hanner’s mother Alicia. The colt won the Buckeye Stallion Series final last weekend at Dayton Hollywood Raceway. Twin B High Tide is owned by Hanners Racing and was bred by Twinbrook Limited

Twin B Joe Fresh Ranks No. 1 For 13th Consecutive Week

October 8, 2024
Twin B Joe Fresh extended her streak to 13 weeks at No. 1 in the Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown poll while some of the changes include Chantilly moving into the top three and Sig Sauer and Fallout joining the Top 10 in the Week 17 edition of the rankings released on Tuesday, Oct. 8. No. 1 Twin B Joe Fresh and No. 2 Jiggy Jog S were idle. Chantilly, undefeated in eight lifetime starts, won the fifth Gold Series leg of the Ontario Sires Stakes for two-year-old female pacers to move from fifth to third in the rankings. It is the first time female horses have occupied the top three positions since Week 22 in 2021, when Lyons Sentinel, Venerable and Test Of Faith led the way. Captain Albano, also idle, remained fourth in this week’s rankings while Karl, who finished fifth in the Kentucky Futurity, dropped from third to fifth. Kentucky Futurity winner Sig Sauer joined the Top 10 for the first time, at No. 8. Fallout, who won a division of the International Stallion Stakes, debuted at No. 10. Legendary Hanover fell from seventh to ninth following a fifth-place finish in a division of the Tattersalls Pace. Maryland and Nijinsky, the remaining horses in the Top 10, were idle. Highland Kismet, who was eighth in the Kentucky Futurity, and idle Its A Love Thing dropped from the Top 10. The Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown poll, which will be released every Tuesday through the remainder of the Grand Circuit season, does not determine U.S. Horse of the Year. The members of the U.S. Harness Writers Association vote on all Dan Patch Award division winners plus Trotter of the Year, Pacer of the Year and Horse of the Year.  Rankings based on the votes of harness racing media representatives on a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis.

TWIN B HIGH TIDE WINS BUCKEYE STALLION SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP FOR 2yo PACING COLTS!

October 5, 2024
“The Buckeye Stallion Series Championship 2 year old pacing colt division went to Twin B High Tide in a new lifetime mark of 1:52.1. Guided by Hanners, the son of Downbytheseaside settled in fourth and stayed patient as the opening fraction was posted in :26.4. Heading to the :55.4 half-mile marker, 1-5 Twin B High Tide followed cover. The colt kicked it into gear and flew three-wide on the backside. There was no catching Twin B High Tide as the three-quarters came in 1:23.1. Twin B High Tide won with three lengths to spare. The Onyx Dragon (Justin Irvine) finished second and Go Jim Dandy (Myers) was third. Twin B High Tide has won four of eight lifetime starts to earn $84,595USD. Alicia Hanners trains for Hanners Racing. He was bred by Twinbrook Limited. “ -Conrad Photo. Sending out a huge congratulations to Team Hanners & all his connections!!

Twin B Joe Fresh Leads Poll For A Dozen Weeks

October 1, 2024
Twin B Joe Fresh , who captured the Dayton Distaff Derby last week to extend her win streak to nine, pushed her consecutive weeks in the No. 1 spot in the Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown poll to 12 when the Week 16 rankings were released on Tuesday, Oct. 1. The four-year-old pacing mare received 27 of 35 first-place votes. Jiggy Jog S, who won the Dayton Oaks last week, remained No. 2 in the poll and garnered seven first-place votes. The remainder of the rankings in the Top 10 were unchanged with the exception of Highland Kismet and Its A Love Thing swapping positions in the nine and 10 slots. Highland Kismet won a Bluegrass Stakes division last week while Its A Love Thing finished second in a leg of the Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Series. The Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown poll, which will be released every Tuesday through the remainder of the Grand Circuit season, does not determine U.S. Horse of the Year. The members of the U.S. Harness Writers Association vote on all Dan Patch Award division winners plus Trotter of the Year, Pacer of the Year and Horse of the Year. Rankings based on the votes of harness racing media representatives on a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis.

Twin B Joe Fresh romps at Hollywood Dayton

September 28, 2024
Dayton, OH — Twin B Joe Fresh headed to Saturday’s stakes action at Hollywood Dayton Raceway with top billing, and the sport’s highest-ranked star did not disappoint. Twin B Joe Fresh won the $250,000 Dayton Distaff Derby for older female pacers by 4-1/2 lengths in a track-record 1:48.3 over a surface labeled “good” one race after Jiggy Jog S captured the $250,000 Dayton Oaks for older female trotters by 3-1/4 lengths in 1:52.1. Both mares were driven by Dexter Dunn, who swept the night’s four major stakes, adding the $250,000 Dayton Trotting Derby with Logan Park and the $250,000 Dayton Pacing Derby with Abuckabett Hanover. Dunn won six races total on the card. Twin B Joe Fresh, ranked No. 1 in the Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown poll, went to the lead at the start of the Dayton Distaff and posted fractions of :26.3, :54.2, and 1:21 on her way to her ninth consecutive win of the season. Sylvia Hanover finished second and Always B Naughty was third. Trained by Chris Ryder, the 4-year-old Twin B Joe Fresh has nine victories and a second in 10 starts this season. For her career, the daughter of Roll With Joe -Fresh Breeze has won 28 of 37 races and earned $2.06 million. Twin B Joe Fresh is owned by Ryder, Dunn, Peter Trebotica, and Barry Spak. She was bred by Brittany Farms. 

TWIN B HIGH TIDE CRUISES TO JUG DAY VICTORY

September 19, 2024
TWIN B HIGH TIDE crashed down the lane like a tidal wave to win his $20,000 Buckeye Stallion Series for 2-year-old male pacers (3rd div.) in a lifetime best 1:52.3 at the Delaware County. Driven by Austin Hanners for trainer Alicia Hanner and owners Hanners Racing, the son of DOWNBYTHESEASIDE was bred by Twinbrook Limited. He paid $2.10 to win the third race of his career. CATCH THE ROCKET (Catch The Fire) finished second; SOUTH SEA (Downbytheseaside) was third.
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