Rosecroft Turns 70, continued...
Te track was then sold to Te Stronach Group in May 2016 for an undisclosed amount. By purchasing Rosecroft, Te Stron- ach Group added a harness track to its Maryland Toroughbred tracks at Pimlico and Laurel.
The Races Te William E. Miller Me-
morial race was created to honor Rosecroft’s founder and has at- tracted such notable horses as Cam’s Card Shark, the 1994 Horse of the Year. During Miller II’s ownership,
All Bets Off, winner of the 2016 Potomac Pace, matched the track record that day for pacers at 1:48:2 to share the fastest track time with Nuclear Breeze (2007).
Rosecroft was awarded one of the inaugural Breeders Crown races. Te Breeders Crown was a series of traveling races aimed at showcasing the best 2-year-old and 3-year-old horses in North America and Canada. Rosecroft hosted the 2-Year-Old Pace of the 1985 Breeders Crown, won by Robust Hanover. Rosecroft continued to host Breeders Crown races for the next five years. During Vogel’s last year as owner, the Messen-
ger Stakes came to Rosecroft. Part of the Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Pacers, it was run every year until 1994. Highlights include West- ern Hanover winning the Messenger Stakes in 1992. He went on to be the richest horse of the year and won two out of the three Triple Crown races that year and was inducted into the Har- ness Racing Hall of Fame in 2002. With the closure of Freestate Raceway, the
prestigious Potomac Stakes found a new home at Rosecroft. Te race generated $1 million plus handles on several occasions. However, in 1993, Rosecroft officials decided to suspend running the Potomac Stakes, along with the Lady Bal- timore, Te Terrapin, Te Turtle Dove and Te
North American because decreasing handles made it difficult to cover the purses for these races. Te Potomac Stakes, renamed the Po- tomac Pace, made a triumphant return to Rose- croft in 2015 and has been run every year since.
The Horses Trough Rosecroft’s 70 years of
harness racing, several top pacers and trotters have been seen on the historic track. Current track records are held by trotter I Like My Boss and pacers All Bets Off and Nuclear Breeze. I Like My Boss, owned by V.
Kirby, set the all-age trot record at 1:53:3 on October 22, 2017. On July 9, 2007, J. Morand’s Nu- clear Breeze set the track record for all-age pace at 1:48:2. Nearly ten years later, All Bets Off, owned by M. Kakal- ey, matched that record on November 22, 2016.
The Horsemen
From its beginning with Hall of Famer Wil- liam E. Miller, Rosecroft has been the home of
many champion horsemen, and this year’s 70th anniversary is no exception. Frank Milby of Easton is look- ing to secure his third consecu- tive driving title at Rosecroft this year. During last year’s fall meet, Milby earned 46 wins, just two wins ahead of Russell Foster. Fos- ter, also from Easton, is looking to take that top spot this season. Fos- ter was the co-leading driver for the 2016 Rosecroft Spring Meet. As of March of this year, it
is Jonathan Roberts of Clinton who had a two win advantage
over Milby! Roberts holds multiple driving titles at Rosecroft and currently has logged over 3,000 career wins. Fellow driver and sister Megan Roberts earned her first training win at Rosecroft on November 17, 2016. Timmy Offutt of Frederick start- ed driving when he was just 17, which is not unusual in the harness world. Since then, he has secured nearly $2 million in earnings as a driver and is getting close to reach- ing the 600 career wins mark. After working his way up and
Jonathan Roberts is leading Rosecroft’s driver standings as of March.
down the East Coast circuit, Ken- ny Scholtzhauer of Easton has put down roots at Rosecroft and has earned multiple Trainer of the Meet honors. He also received a Secretary’s Citation from Mary-
land Department of Agriculture in 2015. Born in Sweden, international driver Hen-
rik Lundell is now at Rosecroft after learning the harness racing trade in Sweden, France and Italy. He moved to the U.S. in 2004.
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