by Ken Weingartner, Harness Racing Communications

Freehold, NJ — After healing her heels, Honorable Daughter is ready to step forward.

Honorable Daughter, last season’s Dan Patch Award winner as best 2-year-old filly trotter, last raced on May 25 when she won the Empire Breeders Classic at Vernon Downs. She is scheduled to compete in a qualifier next week at the Meadowlands Racetrack and, if all goes well, race in the Delvin Miller Memorial on July 17 at the Big M.

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Honorable Daughter will return to action next week in a qualifying race.

“Knock on wood, it seems like she’s coming the right way now,” trainer Larry Remmen said. “She had a couple bruises on her (front) heels, but those seem to have healed up.”

Honorable Daughter is 2-for-2 this year, with $112,687 in earnings. She missed last weekend’s $488,505 Elegantimage Stakes in Canada because of her injuries.

“Those were good fillies up there,” Remmen said. “It’s a little bit different than at (age) 2; these are all established fillies. You have to be at the top of your game. With the speed she was going to have to go, it was going to be asking a lot of her.”

Last year, Honorable Daughter won nine of 11 races, including the Breeders Crown and Merrie Annabelle, and earned $835,555. She also became the fastest 2-year-old filly trotter in history on a five-eighths-mile track with a 1:55.1 victory in the Matron Stakes final at Dover Downs and was recognized by the U.S. Harness Writers Association as the best in her class.

She is owned by Paolo Rosanelli, who owns a machine shop, and John Siena, who runs a bakery with his brother-in-law. Both Rosanelli and Siena, who have owned horses together for more than a dozen years, live in Middletown, New York.

Honorable Daughter (Malabar Man-Honorable Mother) was purchased for $32,000 as a yearling at the Lexington Selected Sale.