from the Meadowlands Media Relations Department

East Rutherford, NJ — The Thursday (Feb. 23) Meadowlands card opens with a pair of interesting 3-year-old fillies from the Joe Holloway barn competing in a non-winners pacing class as the evening’s first race.

Holloway has developed some truly great mares including Shebestingin, the fastest female Standardbred ever, who seared around Red Mile in 1:47 a few years ago, along with multiple world champion She’s A Great Lady and the 2015 Dan Patch award winning Divine Caroline.

Led by the great triple Breeders Crown winning world champion Jenna’s Beach Boy ($1.9 million), horses trained by Holloway have earned more than $30 million over his illustrious career.

Make no mistake, Thefoolalwaysrocks and Twist Of Fate have a mountain to climb to reach that lofty perch but both have the pedigree and are gaining experience over the winter.

Thefoolalwaysrocks is a homebred owned by Roll The Dice Stable, Joe Hurley’s nom de course. She is by successful sire Always A Virgin who was campaigned by the same connections. This filly won a schooling race last year in 1:56.4 but hasn’t raced much and the last couple have done little to impress.

Twist Of Fate is an Art Major owned by a partnership that includes two long-time Holloway patrons who shared in the great Shebestingin, Marty Granoff’s Val D’or Farms and Ted Gewertz, along with John Travis as Four J’s Stable, LLC. She’s coming in on a three race winning streak including a career best 1:54.1 at Dover last month and is clearly on the right track.

The fillies will race uncoupled due to bona-fide separate ownership per the NJRC.

Races seven-nine will again be carried live on the SNY network with Justin Horowitz in the host chair.

Post time is 7:15 p.m.