by Carol Hodes, for the SBOANJ

Manalapan, NJ — Perretti Farms, in association with Lindy Farms of Connecticut, has “acquired a substantial interest” in divisional champion Lucky Chucky and will stand the trotting colt in New Jersey at the end of his racing career.

“Upon completion of his racing career, he’ll stand at the farm,” said Perretti spokesman Bob Marks.

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Lucky Chucky will stand at Perretti Farms at the end of his racing career.

Lucky Chucky, the Dan Patch Award winner as 2-year-old colt Trotter of the Year for 2009, was bred and raised at Perretti Farms in Cream Ridge, N.J.

“He is from the last crop of Windsong’s Legacy and from (the mare) Aerobics, by Muscles Yankee,” Marks noted.

The purchase price was not disclosed.

Lucky Chucky was acquired as a yearling for $10,000 at the Harrisburg Sale by Neal Goldman of Williamstown, N.J.; Amy Lynn Stoltzfus of Williamstown, N.J. and trainer Chuck Sylvester of Washington Township, N.J.

Last year, at two, he posted nine wins, two seconds and one third from 12 starts for earnings of $667,649. John Campbell has been his driver in all his appearances.

The bay took his record of 1:55.1 in a Breeders Crown elimination and posted victories in the $450,000 Valley Victory at Harrah’s Chester, the $166,800 Matron Final at Dover Downs, and divisions of the Bluegrass and International Stallion Stakes at Lexington’s Red Mile. He also finished second in the $600,000 Breeders Crown Final at Woodbine and third in the $523,600 Peter Haughton Memorial at the Meadowlands where he won a $30,520 division of the Harriman in his first pari-mutuel start.

Windsong’s Legacy, who banked $1.7 million during his 2003-2004 racing career, died in March of 2008, early in his fourth season at stud. His 110 starters have banked nearly $5.4 million. Thus far, his top two earners are the mares Windsong Soprano with $963,549 and Yursa Hanover with $701,923.