from the USTA Communications Department

Columbus, OH — The 2015 Harness Horse of the Year, Wiggle It Jiggleit, has drawn post five in the $260,000 Joe Gerrity Jr. Memorial Pace on Saturday night (July 23) at Saratoga.

The 4-year-old pacing gelding, owned by George Teague Jr. Inc. and Teague Racing Partnership, trained by Clyde Francis and driven by Montrell Teague, has won nine of his 14 starts this year with earnings of $673,667. He is coming off a third place finish in last Saturday’s William Haughton Memorial at Meadowlands Racetrack.

Also featured in this year’s race is 2015 champion P H Supercam, who posted an impressive 1:50.1 finish in last year’s Gerrity Memorial. Owned and trained by Jeff Bamond Jr., the 9-year-old gelding will start from post position eight for driver Jason Bartlett. He has won more than $1.38 million in his career.

Below is the complete field:

PP-Horse-Driver-Trainer
1. Bit Of A Legend N-Jordan Stratton-Peter Tritton
2. Doctor Butch-Tim Tetrick-Linda Toscano
3. All Bets Off-Matt Kakaley-Ron Burke
4. Artistic Major-Tim Tetrick-Steve Elliott
5. Wiggle It Jiggleit-Montrell Teague-Clyde Francis
6. Sunfire Blue Chip-Mark MacDonald-Jimmy Takter
7. Cooperstown-Mark MacDonald-Daniel Renaud
8. P H Supercam-Jason Bartlett-Jeffrey Bamond Jr.