Hawthorne update with two weeks left in the fall meet
With two weeks left of racing for the live meet at Hawthorne, there is a three day live racing week, running Wednesday-Friday (Dec.21,22,23) before taking off Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 24 and 25. There is a special Monday, Dec. 26, afternoon card to kick off the final week.
With eight live racing days to go as of Dec. 21, the standings appear to be wrapped up in all categories. According to Assistant General Manager, Jim Miller, “I can safely state that the title for leading trainer and leading owner is taken care of as Roger Brueggemann holds a 25 win lead over Joel Berndt and Chris Block as Brueggemann has posted 45 wins on the meet. Roger’s lead owner, Midwest Thoroughbreds, Inc. has also had a great meet, posting 27 wins this fall. They hold a 15 victory margin over William Stiritz.”
The race for leading jock is just about over as well as the always consistent Florent Geroux has ridden the wave of riding for Brueggemann and Midwest Thoroughbreds to a 14 win cushion over Constantino Roman. Geroux will average over a win a day for this meet as he enters the Wednesday card with 67 wins already this fall with 8 racing days still to go.
Information for this story provided by Jim Miller, Hawthorne Race Course.