by Carol Hodes for SBOANJ

East Rutherford, NJ — Johny Rock extended his winning streak to three, scoring a length and a half victory in the $150,000 New Jersey Sire Stakes Final for 2-year-old pacing colts and geldings, the final of the four championships contested on Friday night, August 17, 2012, closing night of the Meadowlands meet.

Johny Rock [$5.00, $3.60, $2.80], with Tim Tetrick driving, paced a career best 1:51.1 in the sixth race. The John Butenschoen trainee has never been worse than second in six career starts.

Rocknmyjeans [$14.20, $7.80] was second, and it was two and a half lengths to Wake Up Peter [$5.40] in third as sons of Rocknroll Hanover took the top three spots.

A $60,000 Lexington Selected Sale purchase, Johny Rock (Rocknroll Hanover-Soggy Britches) has earned $119,691 for the partnership of William Wiswell of Elkhorn, WI; Jean Goehlen of Aurora, IL and Eugene Schick of Elgin, IL.

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Corky and driver David Miller coasted to a three-length victory in the NJSS Final for 2-year-old trotting colts and geldings.

Corky led the sweep of sons of Muscles Yankee in the $150,000 New Jersey Sire Stakes Final for 2-year-old trotting colts and geldings, the first race.

When Deadliest Catch by Chocolatier, the only non-Muscles Yankee finalist in the field of six, broke stride in the first turn, 1-5 Corky [$2.40, $2.20, $2.10] coasted to a three-length victory over King Muscles [$5.60, $3.80] in 1:57.3. It was 3-1/4 lengths to Amalfi Coast [$5.00] in third.

Corky (Muscles Yankee-Clarice Marie), driven by David Miller and trained by Jimmy Takter, picked up his third win with four seconds in seven starts. He won all of his New Jersey Sire Stakes starts and was second best by a neck in the Peter Haughton Memorial.

A $100,000 Lexington Selected Sale purchase, Corky now has a bankroll of $227,297 for owners Christina Takter of East Windsor, NJ and brothers Jim and John Fielding of Toronto, ON.

Southwind Cocoa [$22.60, $9.60, $5.20] followed a third over path and peeled out five-wide in the stretch to nip Time To Kill [$12.20, $5.80] by a nose and Shared Past [$3.00] by a neck in a three-horse photo finish in the $150,000 New Jersey Sire Stakes Final for 2-year-old trotting fillies, the third race.

Southwind Cocoa (Chocolatier-Missymae Bluestone), driven by Tim Tetrick, covered the mile in 1:55.3, equaling the stakes record set by Act Of Grace on July 18, 1995.

The Chocolatier filly, a $6,000 Lexington Selected Sale purchase, is from the same team of trainer Linda Toscano and owner Richard Gutnick of Blue Bell, PA, that combined to win this year’s Hambletonian with Market Share and the Nat Ray with Chapter Seven.

Time To Kill is by Muscles Yankee and Shared Past is a daughter of Chocolatier.

Even-money favorite Authorize [$4.00, $3.00, $2.40] swept past Jerseylicious [$3.60, $3.40], tossing in a final quarter of 25,4, to win the $150,000 New Jersey Sire Stakes Final for 2-year-old pacing fillies, the fifth race, by half a length in 1:52.3. It was three quarters of a length back to Miss Lauren [$5.40] in third.

Authorize (Western Ideal-Cpa), driven by Brian Sears and trained by Tony Alagna, extended her winning streak to four. Bred and owned by Brittany Farms of Versailles, KY and the Estate of Brian Monieson of Northbrook, IL, has finished first or second in five of seven starts and banked $108,000.

Authorize and Jerseylicious are both daughters of Western Ideal while Miss Lauren is by Cam’s Card Shark.

In other stakes action, WJ Donovan’s Maven, the 1-2 favorite, redeemed herself from a miscue in the Hambletonian Oaks to breeze to a 3-1/2 length victory over Valdonna in the $191,500 Moni Maker for 3-year-old trotting fillies. The Jonas Czernyson trainee, driven by Yannick Gingras, trotted the mile in 1:52.3.

The complexion of the $218,850 Golden Girls for pacing mares changed at the start when 8-5 favorite and Lady Liberty winner Put On A Show broke at the start and finished last.

Rebeka Bayama, driven by Sylvain Filion and trained by Pat Lachance, battled in the stretch for a half-length victory over Drop The Ball in 1:49 flat. Ginger And Fred was a length and three-quarters back in third.

In the $5,500 Racing Under Saddle exhibition race, Tina Duer rode Chinese Cuisine to a 5-3/4 length victory over Helene Gregory aboard Armbro Doyle. It was 8-1/4 lengths back to Dream Kid, ridden by Jennifer Connor, in third. The mile was trotted in 2:00.2.

Chinese Cuisine, trained by John Duer, is a 4-year-old gelding son of Revenue owned and bred by Peninsula Farm of Lexington, Ky.