Bay colt by Badlands Hanover – Prymetyme Scootie – Scoot Herb


BREEDERS: Winbak Farm, Chesapeake City, MD

OWNERS: Badlands Racing LLC, Chadds Ford, PA; George Teague Jr., Harrington, DE; Elmer Fannin, Lincoln, DE & Howard Dorfman, Virginia Beach, VA

STATISTICS:
2010 4 0 2 0 $28,420
2009 11 8 2 0 $189,348
Totals 15 8 4 0 $217,768

LIFETIME MARK: 2, 1:52.3, Dover Downs

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS & NOTES:
Purchased for $25,000 at New Jersey Classic Sale in September 2008

At two:
• Won Arden Downs Stakes at The Meadows on August 1 in 1:52.4
• Finished second, a half-length behind Sportswriter in Nassagaweya, August 22 at Mohawk
• Finished second, one and one-half lengths behind Sportswriter, in Metro elimination, August 29 before finishing seventh (placed 10th for broken equipment) in Metro final, September 5
• Won $100,000 Delaware State Bred Final October 26 at Harrington in 1:54.1
• Won $100,000 Delaware State Bred Final December 8 at Dover Downs in 1:53

At three:
• Finished second, one and one-quarter lengths behind Kyle Major, in Burlington division, June 12 at Mohawk
• Finished second, three-quarters of a length behind All Speed Hanover, in second Cup elim on June 19


ELIMINATION QUOTES: Brenda Teague,Trainer

“We were tickled with how he raced tonight. We’ve been wanting to try and race him out of a hole and finally got that kind of trip. We were pleased with how he responded. Brian said he relaxed well after the start and seems to be getting more comfortable with trying to race that way.”

“He had some issues before with hitting the race bike and that got him really fired up. Because of that, he’s been really hard on himself, so we’ve been working with trying to get him to relax and we’re starting to see a difference in him.”

“We’re ecstatic to be in the Cup again. We always love coming up here every year and this is definitely one of the races we look forward to the most.”


Trainer – Brenda Teague
George Teague Jr./Brenda Teague
Age: 46
Career wins through June 20, 2010: 1,123
Career earnings through June 20, 2010: $24,276,326

• It's only taken two decades for George Teague, Jr. to become an ‘overnight sensation’ in harness racing. The second generation Delaware horseman followed in the footsteps of his late father, George Teague, Sr.
• As a teen, George's first job in the sport came working for well known trainer Jim Case. A short time later, Teague opened his own small stable. From that beginning, Teague has become the most successful African American trainer in the sport. He accomplished this with only a small stable of private purchases and yearlings. For years, Teague attended yearling sales and purchased modest priced colts and fillies, owning at least 50 per cent of them.
• Sister Brenda has shared the training duties and handles most of the stakes performers when they race in Canada. She is the only female trainer to win the Pepsi NA Cup, having captured the 2006 edition with Total Truth.
• At the 2002 Fall Classic Sale in New Jersey, Team Teague liked a filly (Rainbow Blue) so much that they went to $10,500 (U.S.) to buy her. The rest is history. As a two year old in 2003, Rainbow Blue had six wins in seven trips to the post, with earnings of $102,674 (U.S.).
• Rainbow Blue was the toast of the sport as a three year old in 2004. She won an amazing 20 races in 21 starts and banked $1,195,010 (U.S.), the most ever earned in a single season by a female pacer. The daughter of Artiscape captured the $610,000 Breeders Crown Final, the $705,900 Fan Hanover Final, the $222,500 Nadia Lobell, the $159,675 Matron Final and the $150,000 New Jersey Sires Stakes Final. Rainbow Blue's 1:49.2 clocking in a Fan Hanover elimination equalled the world record for a sophomore pacing filly on a mile track.
• Her terrific accomplishments led to Rainbow Blue capturing Dan Patch Awards as the U.S. Horse of the Year, Pacer of the Year, and Three Year Old Filly Pacer of the Year. With high hopes for her four-year-old season, Rainbow Blue unfortunately suffered a torn tendon in early June, missed the rest of the season, then was retired to the broodmare ranks in 2006.
• Team Teague has 74 wins under George’s name this year so far.


Brian Sears
Age: 42
Career wins through June 20, 2010: 7,105
Career earnings through, June 20, 2010: $108,607,899

• Hailing from Secaucus, New Jersey, Brian Sears is one of harness racing’s leading drivers. In 2005, the third-generation horseman broke John Campbell’s record for singe-season earnings, racking up $15,085,992 in purses - a mark only eclipsed by Tim Tetrick in 2007.
• In 2008, Sears posted career best numbers with 447 wins and $16,890,484 to his credit.
• Sears won his first pari-mutuel race while he was still in high school, behind a horse named Alicia Blue Chip in 1:58.2. He began his professional career at New York’s Vernon Downs, where he won the Dick Mumpton Memorial Award in 1990 for most promising driver. The 1991 season marked the first of three consecutive years that Sears topped the UDR standings at Vernon and also earned him the United States Harness Writers’ Rising Star Award.
• In 1994, Sears made the move to The Meadows and quickly became one of the leading catch drivers at the western Pennsylvania oval, finishing second behind perennial champion Dave Palone in both wins and earnings in each of his nine campaigns there.
• Sears decided to base himself at The Meadowlands in 2003, after picking up driving titles at Pompano Park and Pocono Downs. By 2004, he was one of the Big M’s leading linesmen and has remained at or near the top of the standings every year since.
• In 2008, he ran away with the Meadowlands’ driving title, racking up an impressive record of 259 wins and more than $7-million in purses. That was nearly double his nearest rival in both wins and purses.
• Rocknroll Hanover is one of the top horses Sears has driven in his career. The pacing colt won both the $1 million Metro Pace as a two-year-old in 2004 and then captured the $1.5 million Pepsi North America Cup the next season at age three.
• Sears was also known as the regular driver of top Free-For-All pacer Lis Mara and the outstanding 2009 Horse of the Year, Muscle Hill. He’s on his way to another terrific year with 188 wins and $3.7 million in purse earnings so far.