Brown colt by Western Terror – Cantbuymehappiness – Pacific Rocket
BREEDERS: Kentuckiana Farms Gen Par, Lexington, KY
OWNERS: Carl Jamieson, Princeton, ON; Thomas Kyron, Toronto, ON; Brian Paquet, Quebec City, QC and Joanne Morrison, Beeton, ON
STATISTICS: 2011 5 4 1 0 $130,750
2010 5 2 1 0 $42,690
Totals 10 6 2 0 $173,440
LIFETIME MARK: 3, 1:49, Mohawk
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS & NOTES:
Purchased for $72,000 at Lexington Select Sale in October 2009
Driver Jody Jamieson won 2007 Pepsi North America Cup with Tell All
At two:
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Won two of his five starts, his debut at Buffalo Raceway in $20,380 New York Sires Stake and $20,000 Dream Maker July 20 at Mohawk, in 1:51.4
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Finished fifth as the favourite in his Metro elim, August 28, then was fourth in $100,000 Metro Consolation, September 4 at Mohawk
At three:
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On a three-race win streak entering Cup final
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Won $80,000 The Diplomat final May 14 at Woodbine
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Won Somebeachsomewhere division as a 10-1 shot June 4 at Mohawk in career best 1:49, shocking 1-9 favourite Big Jim
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Won his Cup elim as the 3-5 choice by one-half length over Shadyshark Hanover in 1:50.4
ELIMINATION QUOTES: Jody Jamieson (Driver)
"It’s so awesome to be racing for my dad (Carl). Having a horse this good for my dad, it’s a great feeling. I just hope we get through (the) week."
"Even though we were the slowest division, I thought we were in the toughest. I think we have as good a shot as anybody to win. There are some nice colts in there. The best part is we get to pick our post."
"He’s just a good horse. I think if I want to, I can move him to the lead. He’s just so easy to drive. The first two qualifiers of the year he was really tough to drive. He wanted to go through the gate, he didn’t want to race."
"My dad’s put an open bridle on him and he’s been two fingers. Timmy [Driver Tim Tetrick] got away from me at the head of the stretch because he started to sprint but my horse wasn’t too worried about it. When I popped the plugs and swung him over, he wants to pass horses and he’s vicious. He’s just so good off the helmet right now."
Carl Jamieson (Co-owner/Trainer)
"He’s always been a special horse. Last year we had some lameness issues but speed was never an issue with him. He won in (1):51 and change in his second start as a two-year-old, it doesn’t get much better than that. I’ve been down this road before with Santanna Blue Chip, but he raced against Somebeachsomewhere in the (2008) Cup final (finishing third)."
Driver - Jody Jamieson
Age: 34
Career wins through June 13, 2011: 5,839
Career earnings through June 13, 2011: $ 79,021,368
A third generation horseman, Jody Jamieson has already accomplished much in the sulky.
He represented Canada in the 2001 World Driving Championship in Finland and Sweden and won the competition. He was also runner-up in the 2003 competition, hosted by Canada. In 2004, Jamieson recorded his 2,000th win and led the country with 505 wins.
The Moffat resident was nominated for an O’Brien Award as Canada’s Top Driver in 2004, but was edged by Luc Ouellette. He was also a runner-up to Mark MacDonald in 2006, and Paul MacDonell in 2008.
In 2006, he won the $1-million Metro Pace with Yankee Skyscaper (conditioned by Chris Ryder) and the $754,500 Shes A Great Lady Stakes with Appleoosa Hanover (trained by father, Carl).
He also got much attention driving pint-sized Doonbeg, who was the O’Brien Award winner and WEG’s Three-Year-Old Pacing Colt of the Year, winning three OSS Gold Finals, the Super Final and Canadian Breeders division, as well as a Pepsi N.A. Cup elim. Also in 2006, Jamieson hooked up with WEG’s Pacing Horse of the Year, Primetime Bobcat, to notch a then world record 1:47.2 mile at Woodbine on May 13 before capturing the Spring Pacing Championship and Gold Cup.
He was voted the United States Harness Writers Association’s (USHWA) ‘Rising Star’ in 2006.
At Woodbine, Jamieson’s first pari-mutuel win came with O’Brien Award winner Elegant Killean. He reached new heights in 2007 when he won the $1.5 million Pepsi North America Cup with the Blair Burgess-trained Tell All. That victory catapulted Jamieson to his first O’Brien Award as Canada’s Driver of the Year.
In 2008, he captured his first WEG title with 282 wins and led all drivers in Canada with over $8.7 million in purses. His big horse was Two-Year-Old Colt Trotter champion Federal Flex, which he also co-owned.
In 2009, he broke the single-season Canadian dash-winning record of 692 victories. He finished the year with 787 wins and another O’Brien Award as the nation’s top driver.
Jamieson had an impressive 2010 WEG campaign winning 14 stakes, including his second victory in the $1 million Metro Pace with Mystician, a 29-1 upset.
During the start of the 2011 season, the two-time O’Brien Award winner broke a personal record at the Woodbine oval. On February 21, 2011, Jamieson won six races on a single card for the first time.
Jamieson will once again represent Canada in the 2011 World Driving Championship, hosted by the United States Trotting Association from July 31 to August 5.
Trainer – Carl Jamieson
Age: 60
Career Wins through June 13, 2011: 916
Career Earnings through June 13, 2011: $20,312,262
Carl Jamieson, a native of Pugwash, Nova Scotia who now resides in Princeton, Ontario, has perennially been a top trainer in the O.S.S. program since his arrival in the province. He also has driven many of his own horses over the years, notching over 1,366 victories. Elegant Killean was a top horse for Jamieson in the 1990s, as she won O'Brien Awards for her two- and three-year-old seasons in 1994 and 1995.
Jamieson's father also raced horses, and was the one who got him into the game, as he first raced horses at Sackville Downs, Truro Raceway and Tartan Downs before moving to Ontario in the mid 1980s, when he campaigned primarily at Flamboro Downs.
Jamieson collected his first O'Brien Award in 2006, taking home the hardware in the Horsemanship division. The biggest win of Jamieson's career came on September 2 at Mohawk when Appleoosa Hanover won the $754,500 Shes A Great Lady Stakes with son Jody Jamieson in the driver's seat.
He also trained his fifth Battle Of Waterloo winner in 2006, as Warrawee Ideal captured Grand River Raceway's $300,000 event. Warrawee Ideal also won a division of the Nassagaweya Stakes at Mohawk and finished second in the Metro Pace consolation. Jamieson drove Banner Yankee (who he also trained) to victory in the prestigious Gold Cup and Saucer at Charlottetown Driving Park in Prince Edward Island.
Jamieson's training operation had a career year in 2007, as his horses won 60 races and more than $3 million in purse winnings led by the powerful trio of rookie colt pacers - Santanna Blue Chip, the ill-fated Roberts Rage and Legacy N Diamonds.
Santanna Blue Chip captured the Governor's Cup and Breeders Crown en route to earning more than $927,000. That made him the richest freshman pacer on the continent that season.
Another big gun for the Jamieson camp was two-year-old trotting filly Torch who was a star in the OSS program and earned just over $260,000.
Carl Jamieson’s training operation had another solid year in 2009, as his pupils notched 21 wins and $705,528 in purses. His numbers were down from previous seasons as he decreased the size of his operation.
Noted for developing young horses, Jamieson’s Cross Of Lorraine proved her dominance in the OSS program for three-year-old trotting fillies in 2010. She scored victories in 8 of 14 starts and earned $289,236.
With his son, Jody, in the sulky, Cross Of Lorraine captured two $130,000 OSS Gold Finals, one in a final time of 1:52.4, which equalled the Mohawk track record and Canadian record for three-year-old trotting fillies. Cross of Lorraine also lowered the stakes record when she won her division of the Canadian Breeders Championship in 1:53.4.