Gold Paved Roads In West Virginia

Lion Hearted, Not For Love Get Stakes Winners At Charles Town

10/17/2009- Roads paved with gold led to West Virginia on Oct. 17, and Northview stallions went along for the ride. LION HEARTED had a winner on the $2 million Saturday card, and a son of NOT FOR LOVE scored the previous evening.

LION HEARTED’s 3-year-old daughter ASPENGLOW, the 1-5 favorite in the $140,000 West Virginia Division of Tourism Breeders Classic S., led every step of the 7 furlongs over extremely sloppy going, winning by 3 3/4 lengths while defeating nine. Campaigned by her co-breeder, Nancy Terhune, and trained by Gary Capuano, the gray filly racked up her fifth win in eight career starts, and her first stakes win. Two races later, ASPENGLOW’s full sister, Silver Heart, finished fifth in the $500,000 West Virginia Jefferson Security Bank Cavada Breeders Classic S. and took home a cool $22,500 for the effort.

NOT FOR LOVE’s veteran sprinting son LOVE’S STRONG HART hustled his way to a 3 1/2-length victory in the HBPA Jefferson County Commission S. His time for the 4 1/2 furlongs was :50.75, just .55 seconds off the track record. Owned by the Hartner Family Trust and trained by Damon R. Dilodovico, LOVE’S STRONG HART got his second stakes win—to go with five stakes-placings—and boosted his career earnings to just shy of $400,000.

NOT FOR LOVE ranks 15th on the national leading sires standings with 2009 earnings of over $5 million and tied for eighth by number of stakes winners with 12. LION HEARTED ranks second on the Maryland sire ranks and has six stakes winners this year!