by Ken Weingartner, Harness Racing Communications

2012 Woodrow Wilson — Captaintreacherous from USTA on Vimeo.

East Rutherford, NJ — Captaintreacherous took the lead on the backstretch and never looked back, winning the $309,050 Woodrow Wilson for 2-year-old male pacers by 10-1/4 lengths in 1:49.3 on Saturday at the Meadowlands Racetrack. The time was a stakes and track record.

Hail The Taxi finished second and Martini Hanover was third. Captaintreacherous paid $2.60 to win.

USTA/Mark Hall photo

Captaintreacherous was a 10-1/4 length 1:49.3 winner in the Woodrow Wilson for 2-year-old male pacers.

Captaintreacherous, who was the 1-5 favorite, is owned by Brittany Farms, Marvin Katz, Joe Sbrocco and White Birch Farm. He has won two of three races for trainer Tony Alagna and driver Tim Tetrick.

“He was very impressive,” Tetrick said. “At the top of the lane I just asked him a little bit and he paced right away from them. He coasted all the way to the wire. He’s a very nice colt. He takes care of himself. He doesn’t know how fast he is going and that’s the best attribute of this colt.”

Western Shooter set the previous track record for a 2-year-old pacer of 1:50 in 2001.

Captaintreacherous is a son of Somebeachsomewhere out of the mare Worldly Treasure. He sold for $250,000 at the Lexington Selected Sale. His mother is a full sister to pacing mare Worldly Beauty, who was a two-time Dan Patch Award winner and earned nearly $2 million lifetime.

“He always showed that he had that little bit extra you look for in a top colt,” Alagna said. “He went through everything so easy and every time you asked him he just found a little bit more. He was just a very professional horse from the get-go.

“I wasn’t (surprised by the time) because I think that highly of this colt. Timmy’s done a great job of managing him for us. I think he’s that kind of horse.”

“The colt that won went a monster trip,” said Jim Campbell, trainer of runner-up Hail The Taxi. “Racing for that kind of money I am very happy to get second.”