by John Pawlak, marketing director, USTA

Columbus, OH — After having spent the early part of his career recording win after win at such far flung outposts of harness racing as Oskaloosa and Altoona, Iowa, Squawk Box Stable and Keep The Dream Going, Inc.’s Panaramic Art seems to have forgotten how to lose a harness race, and in the wake of four wins in the month just completed — while now racing on the sport’s biggest stage — he has been named the January Horse of the Month by the U.S. Trotting Association.

The 4-year-old gelded son of Hot Pans-Kelly Graham was purchased from his Grinnell, Iowa breeder, Roger Roland, for a reported $60,000 this past October. The streaking pacer filled his January nights with an overnight victory and then two preliminary legs and the $83,700 final of the Clyde Hirt Series, all at the Meadowlands.

“He is just so versatile,” driver George Brennan said in the winner’s circle following the Hirt Final last Saturday. “He knows how to get it done. It’s a great quality for any good racehorse and he’s got them all.”

The win in the Hirt pushed Panaramic Art’s winning streak to 18 races (for the record his last defeat came in a $4,250 stakes for Iowa-registered sophomores at What Cheer, Iowa). He has now won 30 of 36 races and $183,843 in his career.

Al Meyer trains Panaramic Art for his current owners, Leonard Bogner and Stefano Scarogni, who race as the Squawk Box Stable of Monroe Township, N.J., and Deborah Adwokat (Keep The Dream Going, Inc.) of Scarsdale, N.Y., and Meyer has said he will give his star pupil one week off — before seeing whether the streak can be extended to 19 wins in the opening round of the Exit 16W Series, also at the Meadowlands.