Muscle Hill is a
trotting stallion, by super sire Muscles Yankee, who won a
Breeders Crown
The Breeders Crown is an annual series of harness races in the United States and Canada covering each of the sport's twelve traditional categories of age, gait and gender. The series was initiated by the Hambletonian Society, promoters of the Hamb ...
race in 2008 and 2009. He is driven by
Brian Sears and trained by
Greg Peck.
Muscle Hill was purchased by Tom Pontone for $55,000 at the Harrisburg Yearling Sales in 2007.
[Muscle Hill wins Hambletonian in record time at the Meadowlands](_blank)
Daily News, Retrieved 16 February 2016 He showed great promise as a two-year-old winning the Peter Haughton Memorial and 2008
Breeders Crown
The Breeders Crown is an annual series of harness races in the United States and Canada covering each of the sport's twelve traditional categories of age, gait and gender. The series was initiated by the Hambletonian Society, promoters of the Hamb ...
Two Year Old Colt Trot. He went on to win $817,301 and eight of nine races and was named the United States 2-Year Old Colt Trotter of the Year.
[Stallions Australasia](_blank)
Retrieved 14 February 2016
In 2009 he went on to win all of his races as a three-year-old, including the
Hambletonian, the
Canadian Trotting Classic
The Canadian Trotting Classic is a harness race for three-year-old Standardbred trotters run at a distance of one mile at Mohawk Racetrack in Campbellville, Ontario. The event was first run on October 22, 1976 at the now defunct Greenwood Racewa ...
, the American-National, the
World Trotting Derby, the
Kentucky Futurity and the Breeders Crown. In The Hambletonian he won in 1:50.1 which was a stakes record and tied the fastest time for a trotter of any age at
The Meadowlands.
He won by six lengths, the largest winning margin in The Hambletonian since
Mack Lobell in 1987.
[2009 Hambletonian](_blank)
The Hambletonian Society, Retrieved 14 February 2016 At the end of 2009 he retired to stud with career prize money of $3,273,342, and having won the last 20 of the 21 races in which he competed. The $2,456,041 that he won in 2009 was a record for a single season for either a trotter or a pacer.
He was voted
United States Harness Horse of the Year for 2009, the first time a trotter had won the award for an undefeated season.
He never came close to defeat in his twenty wins which were all by a margin of at least one length.
At stud his early foals have included Hambletonian winner Trixton and top filly Mission Brief.
,Marion Marauder - 1 50,2 - 2013 g.- winner Hambletonian , Bar Horring - 1.51,4 - 2013 g., Manchego - 1.49,0 - 2015 g.
In January 2016 it was announced that Muscle Hill would be inducted into the
Living Horse Hall of Fame.
Three New Inductees to Living Hall
Standardbred Canada, Retrieved 14 February 2016
References
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2006 racehorse births
American Standardbred racehorses
Harness Horse of the Year winners
American Champion harness horses
United States Harness Racing Hall of Fame inductees