Rank

Horse

Driver, Trainer, Owner

Ken Warkentin’s Comments

1

Ramona Hill

(Muscle Hill) 

Andrew
  McCarthy, Tony Alagna, Brad Grant, Crawford Farms Racing, Robert Leblanc, In
  The Gym Partners 

Dan Patch Award winning filly unleashed a 1:50.3 career best from post ten in the
  Del Miller, uncorked a :25.4 rally for the ages in to win her elimination in
  1:51.2, “She’s been great,” Alagna said. “She was a very immature 2-year-old
  and she was still able to get the job done.  We were so happy with how
  she came back (in the winter) in Florida. Her first start, she raced super
  off the pace and two weeks ago she was sparkling and tonight she’s even
  better.”

2

Ready For Moni

(Ready Cash)

Yannick
  Gingras, Nancy Takter, John Fielding, Lindy Farms of Conn, Herb Liverman, Bud
  Hatfield

Rallied to win his Team Takter debut in a Dancer division in 1:51.4, cruised to a new mark
  of 1:51.3 in his elimination, “The way the schedule has been this year, it’s
  been a little difficult to find races,” Takter said.  “We didn’t want to
  have him over-raced going into the Hambletonian, so he had a couple nice
  qualifiers to kind of let him get into his own and hopefully he’ll take this
  race in the right way and be even sharper for next week.”

3

Back Of The Neck

(Ready Cash) 

Scott
  Zeron, Ake Svanstedt, Howard Taylor, Order By Stable, Judith Taylor

Scott Zeron looks for his third Hambo in five years, won a Reynolds division @ Big
  M on July 11 in 1:52 with a thunderous :26.4 rally, romped in a Dancer
  division in a career best equaling 1:52, second [1:51.2] to Ramona Hill in
  his elimination

4

Threefiftytwo

(Royalty For Life)

Bob McClure, Luc Blais, Determination 

Last year’s Hambletonian upsetters with Forbidden Trade are back with an OSS performer who took a mark of 1:52.3
  @ Mohawk on July 13, finished second [1:51.4] in his elimination

5

Amigo Volo 

(Father Patrick)

Dexter Dunn, Nifty Norman, 

Pinske
  Stables, David J. Miller

Breeders Crown champion won a PASS division @ Pocono Downs in a career
best of 1:52 on July 26, third [1:51.4] in the first Hambo elimination, Dexter
Dunn was fourth from post ten last year

6

Sister Sledge

(Father
  Patrick)

Brian
  Sears, Ron Burke, Burke Racing Stable, Jason Melillo, J & T Silva-Purnel
  & Libby, Weaver Bruscemi

Won  her first two stakes as a 3YO @ The Meadows, second [1:52.4] in PASS @
  Harrah’s Philadelphia, took a mark of 1:51.2 in a Tompkins Geers division,
  fourth [1:52] in the second elimination

7

Hollywood Story

(Muscle
  Hill) 

Tim Tetrick, Marcus Melander, Courant
  Inc. 

Melander  said he’s a green colt with only seven starts, yet getting improving, second
  [1:52] to Ready for Moni in a Dancer division, fifth [1:52] in his
  elimination 

8

Rome Pays Off

(Muscle
  Hill)

Mattias Melander, Marcus Melander, 

S
  R F Stable

2019 Breeders Crown runner up made it two-for-two this season with a solid score
  in the Tompkins Geers with a career best of 1:52.3 on July 25, parked fifth
  [1:52.1] in the second elimination

9

Capricornus

(Cantab
  Hall)

Tim
  Tetrick, Marcus Melander, Jj Racing Stable 

Melander  finished second, third & fifth in last year’s Hambletonian, second in the
  William Wellwood Memorial at two, rebounded with a solid third from the rail
  [1:52] in his elimination 

10

Big Oil

(Father
  Patrick)

Andy
  & Julie Miller, Jason, Doug & Ron Allen

Team Orange Crush hit the board three straight years 2016-2018, won a PA Allstars
  division @ Pocono Downs in 1:53.2, third [1:52.3] in a Dancer division,
  fourth [1:52] in his elimination