from Meadowlands Media Relations

EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – Euro Hanover [$5.80, $3.40, $3.00] needed nearly all of his big lead to capture the $70,000 Super Bowl Final, the seventh race on Wednesday night at the Meadowlands.

He trotted the mile in 1:54.3, a personal best and stakes record, eclipsing the mark of 1:56 set by Rumsfeld in 2005.

Euro Hanover, sent off as the 9-5 favorite, had a seven-length lead at the top of the stretch and won by length and a quarter over Anotherbogey B [$4.80, $3.60]. Next Superstar [$3.20] was third by a length and three-quarters.

A four-year-old gelded son of SJ’s Caviar, Euro Hanover picked up his second straight victory and now has two wins and a second in three starts this year. He has a career total of 11 wins, 12 seconds and three thirds from 34 starts.

Hall of Famer Cat Manzi, who won the 2006 Super Bowl Final with Bancroft Hall, was back in the winner’s circle with Euro Hanover.

“He’s a bit of a handful,” Manzi acknowledged. “We’ve been babying him along, trying to work out his best race. Bruce [trainer Bruce Saunders] has done a great job with him. He went through a bad spell a couple of weeks ago. He straightened it out. Tonight the horse just dictated how I drove him. He was really on his game.”

Euro Hanover, a $16,500 Adios Yearling Sale purchase, has now banked $82,506 for owners Todd Schadel of Gratz, Pennsylvania and Charles Vincent of Oakland, New Jersey.