14 year olds finish 1-2-3 at Monticello Raceway

October 23, 2019

By Shawn Wiles

Monticello – To find any 14-year horse race these days is rare, but on Tuesday afternoon Oct 22, in the 4^th race there were 3 – 14 year olds in the same race.  At the finish line first the 14 year olds, Elias Joy finished first, My Cool Breeze was second and third was Crypto Man.

The winner Elias Joy notched his 12 win of the season for trainer Robert Lounsbury as he trotted to a 4 length victory in 2:00.4 and returned $2.60 to win with Hunter Oaks in the bike.  The son of Floritas Hero is not showing any signs of slowing down this year, with 34 starts under his belt and over $27,000 in seasonal earnings.  Elias Joy is in 4^th place with the most wins at Monticello Raceway this year.

The 3 aged trotting warriors have combined lifetime stats of 1008 starts, 125 wins and over $846,000 in earnings.

Crypto Man was driven by Bruce Aldrich Jr. and is trained and owned by David Dziengiel, a son of Malabar Man is out of the top producer Nervey’s Taurus. My Cool Breeze is trained by Dawn DeVaux and is owned by her daughter Nicole and was driven by Mike Merton.  In the next race Mike Merton went down on the track when Volare TZ made a nasty break going into the first turn and was out of control, Merton sustained a broken collar bone.