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Messenger Stakes Draws Seven Colts

POSTED: 3:52 pm PST November 3, 2009

(Sports Network) - The final Triple Crown race for standardbreds will take place Saturday evening at Yonkers Raceway. The $542,060 Messenger Stakes for pacers will conclude the 2009 Triple Crown series.

The 54th edition of the Messenger is topped by 3-5 favorite If I Can Dream. The three-year-old colt will start from post three with driver Tim Tetrick.

If I Can Dream is coming off a win in the $600,000 Breeders Crown Pace for three-year-old colts and geldings on October 24 at Woodbine Racetrack. Back in June at Yonkers the colt won the $421,850 Art Rooney Pace.

If I Can Dream, owned by Bulletproof Enterprises and trained by Tracy Brainard, has 10 wins in 19 starts this year with earnings of $1,360,099.

In September If I Can Dream was second to Well Said in the Little Brown Jug, the second jewel of the Triple Crown. Well Said was defeated in last month's Breeders Crown.

Here is the complete field for the Messenger Stakes with drivers and morning- line odds: Fireintheshark (Jason Bartlett, 10-1); Hypnotic Blue Chip (John Campbell, 3-1); If I Can Dream (Tim Tetrick, 3-5); Clear Vision (Dave Miller, 6-1); Hail Storm (Jordan Stratton, 20-1); Straight Shooting (Yannick Gingras, 3-5) and Doubleshotascotch (Jim Morrill Jr., 15-1).

If I Can Dream and Straight Shooting shall race as a common-ownership (Bulletproof Enterprises) entry.

The Messenger Stakes has an approximate post-time of 10 P.M. (et).

Vintage Master won the first leg of the Triple Crown, the Cane Pace at Freehold on Labor Day.


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