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THE STATISTICS FREAK horses with his friend Alvin Jacobson. When Jacobson passed away in the spring of 2007 and his family decided to disburse his horses, Tucci bought a majority stake of the two-year-old Credit Winner colt Napoleon, which Korn and Jacobson had bred. Daley trained the horse, who was lightly staked, to victory in four legs and the final of the New York Sire Stakes in 2007. The partners staked Napoleon heavily for his sophomore season but he mis- December 2010 • The Harness Edge behaved early on. He was wearing a new hood by the time the colt reached the Yonkers Trot final, raced that year in June. “We were a co-favourite with Holiday Credit. We drew inside and this is where we had enough luck in that one race that it makes up for all the bad luck the rest of our career,” Tucci shared. “Napoleon was cutting the mile and at the top of the stretch Holiday Credit had taken the lead and had about a two Wishing All The Best To You & Yours This Holiday Season www.thehorses.com length lead on us. At this point we were saying, let’s just hold on for second, then Holiday Credit just decided to jump and go off stride. “My only experience up to that point was a few sire stakes wins by Napoleon. When we bought him, that was my entre into stakes racing,” explained Tucci. “Winning the Yonkers Trot with your first horse like that was indescribable.” After the Yonkers Trot, the colt was sick in his Hambletonian elimination and failed to advance, but scored a career mark 1:53 in the Townsend Ackerman the following week. Napoleon now stands stud in Italy, but remains the fourth highest earner ($789,229) and fifth fastest (1:53) offspring of his sire Credit Winner. Last year Tucci and Daley won the three-year-old Pennsylvania Sire Stakes championship with Doubleshotascotch, a Dragon Again gelding who has now earned $471,805. And this year Tucci and Lambert teamed up on freshman New York Sire Stakes champ Townslight Hanover ($173,552). The gelding is by Bettors Delight out of the dam of Riggins, himself a NYSS champion with more than $800,000 in career earnings. But the trainer-owner team only picked out Townslight Hanover at Hanover Shoe Farms when returning a yearling who suffered from a serious case of EPM. The farm felt the soon to be gelding had a strong pedigree and called him the best Bettors Delight yearling they ever bred, but he was kept out of the sales because an injury had healed with a large unsightly bump. Tucci and Lambert took the risk and made a deal with Hanover to take the horse. Townslight Hanover went on to win the New York Sire Stakes final at Yonkers this September despite drawing post five in a race with two coupled entries. An early speed duel left Townslight plenty of room to breeze three-wide in the final turn and win in 1:54, a new track record for freshman geldings. In the background of his success, racing in Tucci’s home state of New Jersey is facing what could be its last few breaths if an agreement to keep the tracks open isn’t reached soon.
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