from Meadowlands Media Relations

EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – February 24, 2006 – Restive Hanover [$6.20, $2.60, $2.10] followed 3-5 favorite Loyal Opposition into the stretch and then cruised by her to win the fifth race, the $100,000 Cape & Cutter Final, on Friday night at the Meadowlands.

Loyal Opposition [$2.20, $2.10], honored as the champion older pacing mare of 2004 and 2005, brought an eight-race winning streak into the Cape & Cutter Final, her second start of the year. She held on to finish second, two and a quarter lengths back. Burning Point [$2.20], who cut the fractions, was third by two and three-quarter lengths.

Restive Hanover matched her lifetime best with a time of 1:51.4 for the mile.

The Dan Patch divisional champion at two, Restive Hanover’s victory pushed her career bankroll over the $900,000 mark. It was her fifth win in seven starts this year [with two seconds] and sixth in her last eight starts, stretching back to the $183,376 Matron at Dover Downs on December 13.

“She was tremendous that day at Dover and tremendous ever since,” said Eric Ledford, who guided Restive Hanover to victory. “Erv [trainer Erv Miller] has done a great job keeping her healthy. That [second-over trip behind Loyal Opposition] was exactly where I wanted to be if you could text book it out.”

Brent Tartar’s Starmaker Farm of Cynthiana, Kentucky, owns Restive Hanover, a four-year-old daughter of The Panderosa – Razzle Hanover. She was a $17,000 Harrisburg Sale yearling purchase.

At two, she dominated her division with nine wins and three seconds in 14 starts, banking $590,607 thanks to victories in the $576,800 Breeders Crown, $180,000 American-National and $200,000 Three Diamonds. Lifetime, she has 17 wins, six seconds and three thirds from 32 tries.

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Future Destiny is now a perfect two-for-two with her two-length victory in the co-featured $64,000 Tender Loving Care Final.

Future Destiny [$2.60, $2.20, $2.10] is now a perfect two-for-two with her two-length victory in the co-featured $64,000 Tender Loving Care Final for three-year-old pacing fillies, carded as the seventh race.

Gro [$4.20, $2.60] was second, and it was four and a half lengths to Pacific Philly [$2.40] in third.

Future Destiny, driven by Ron Pierce and trained by George Teague, paced the mile in 1:53.2. Unraced at two, she won her career debut the last week’s second round of the Tender Loving Care.

“Future Destiny got sick on me around the first of April last year,” the 38-year-old Teague explained. “She was as good as [$700,000 earner] Western Ace at the time. She was impressive right from Day One. Unfortunately, she got a bellyache. We took her to the New Bolton Center [at the University of Pennsylvania]. It turned out to be just gas, but it cost us the season. She just wasn’t very comfortable, and I didn’t want to take any chances.

“I thought she was nice right along,” said Teague, who owns the filly, a $10,000 yearling purchase, in partnership with his sister, Brenda, and K&R Racing LLC of Houston, Delaware. “I’m not surprised at what she’s done so for. She’ll get a little bit of a rest and then we’ll start her back up for the Blossom [in April] and the [Miss New Jersey] and see how good she is and whether she can tangle with the top fillies.”

The victory lifted the Artiscape filly’s earnings to $38,250.

As the trainer of 2004 Horse of the Year Rainbow Blue, Teague knows something about training top mares. Does he have another Rainbow Blue in Future Destiny?

“The speed’s there, and she’s got all the tools to make a nice horse so hopefully it will materialize,” Teague said.