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RESULTS
OF HARNESS RACING’S LIVING HORSE HALL Stanley
Bergstein, chairman of the Living Horse Hall of Fame nominating
committee of The Harness
Racing Museum & Hall of Fame has announced the results of recent
balloting that determined the 2007 members of The Harness Racing Living
Horse Hall of Fame. Annual members (in good standing) voted for the two
horses they felt exemplified greatness. Their choices are
Continentalvictory who received 26.1% of the votes cast and Cam’s Card
Shark who received 23.3% of the votes cast. Induction ceremonies for these two extraordinary racehorses took place on Hall of Fame Day, Sunday, July 1, 2007 at The Harness Racing Museum’s annual dinner. Standardbreds are only
eligible for nomination to harness racing’s highest accolade if they
comply with the following strict criteria: All Standardbreds must be
retired from racing for five years and had a drug-free career. In
addition, racehorses must have won 70% of their lifetime starts, or gone
undefeated in a single season campaign of 12 or more races, or been the
winner of $2 million lifetime or named Harness Horse of the Year. Stallions must rank among
the 10 all-time leading money-winning sires at their gait or have sired
at least 100 $200,000 winners or been a leading money-winning sire at
his gait in three or more seasons. The
2007 LIVING HORSE CONTINENTALVICTORY
(Nominated
as Racehorse) Trotting
mare Continentalvictory won 10 of 17 starts at two, earning $432,810.
Her wins included the Breeders Crown elimination and final (equaling the
national season's record of 1:55.3), Review Stakes, a division of the
American-National and a New Jersey Sire Stake. She was voted October
Horse of the Month and 1995 Two-Year-Old Trotting Filly of the Year. As a
three-year-old, Continentalvictory won nine of 12 starts, earning
$1,178,360. This made her the richest Standardbred in North America,
with the most earnings ever by a trotting filly in a single season. She
won the 1996 Hambletonian, the first heat in 1:52.1 (a world record for
a three-year-old trotting filly, equaling Mack Lobell’s mark for the
fastest race mile ever by a three-year-old trotter). Her two-heat
winning time of 3:45 was a world record for any age trotter on a mile
track. Other wins included the Yonkers Trot in 1:56.2h, the
American-National in 1:56.4 (a new track record for sophomore trotting
fillies) and the New Jersey Sire Stakes final. She won the World
Trotting Derby in a raceoff, with one heat in a stakes and all-age track
record 1:52.3, setting a world record for three heats divided of 5:45.2. Continentalvictory's
1996 outstanding season earned her USTA's August Horse of the Month and
at year-end she was named USTA Horse of the Year and Three-Year-Old
Filly Trotter of the Year. She was also New Jersey Standardbred of the
Year. Continentalvictory
was bred by Brittany Farms of Versailles, KY. She is currently owned by
Scuderia Bolgheri of Bolgheri, Italy. CAM’S CARD SHARK
(Nominated
as Racehorse) p, 2,1:55.2, 3,1:50 Cam's
Card Shark was named Horse of the Year, Pacer of the Year, and
Three-Year-Old Colt Pacer of the Year in 1994.
That year he became the leading single-season money-winner of all
time earning $2,264,714. He
was the fourth pacer in the history of harness racing to earn more than
$2 million in one season and only the second Standardbred to win two $1
million contests in the same year. Cam's
Card Shark won five of 14 starts as a two-year-old, earning $233,490.
He was victorious in the Lou Babic Memorial final and two New
Jersey Sire Stakes. As a
three-year-old, Cam's Card Shark won 15 of 18 starts. He won the Meadowlands Pace in 1:50, equaling the season's
record. He secured Horse of
the Year honors and various divisional titles with wins in the North
America Cup, Berry's Creek, Messenger Stake, New Jersey Classic, Adios,
James B. Dancer Memorial, Art Rooney, and the Miller Memorial.
His time of 1:50.3f in the Miller Memorial was a season record
over a five-eighths mile track. Cam's
Card Shark was the Leading First Crop Pacing Sire in 1998 with earnings
of $1.1 million. He has
sired 881 starters with 624 in 2:00, 316 in 1:55, and 25 in 1:50.
Their earnings total over $68 million with 168 $100,000 earners,
eight $1 million earners, and three $2 million winners.
Impressive offspring include Holborn Hanover 5,1:46.4
($1,926,109) who set a track and world record for the fastest race mile
in history in the 2006 U.S. Pacing Championship, 2001 Three-Year-Old
Colt Pacer of the Year and Little Brown Jug victor Bettor's Delight
3,1:49.4 ($2,581,461), Four Starzzz Shark 6,1:47.4 ($2,537,267),
Riverboat King 4,1:48.3, Timesareachanging 3,1:48.4, and Royalflush
Hanover 4,1:49.3 ($2,153,893). Cam’s
Card Shark was bred by Jef’s Standardbred Country Club of Sacramento,
CA and is currently owned by a large consortium led by Hanover Shoe
Farms, Inc., where he presently stands.
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