Muscle Hill is a trotting stallion, by super sire Muscles Yankee, who won a Breeders Crown race in 2008 and 2009. He is driven by

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and trained by Greg Peck. Muscle Hill was purchased by Tom Pontone for $55,000 at the Harrisburg Yearling Sales in 2007.Muscle Hill wins Hambletonian in record time at the Meadowlands
Daily News, Retrieved 16 February 2016 He showed great promise as a two-year-old winning the Peter Haughton Memorial and 2008 Breeders Crown Two Year Old Colt Trot. He went on to win $817,301 and eight of nine races and was named the United States 2-Year Old Colt Trotter of the Year.Stallions Australasia
Retrieved 14 February 2016 In 2009 he went on to win all of his races as a three-year-old, including the Hambletonian, the

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, the American-National, the

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, the

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and the Breeders Crown. In The Hambletonian he won in 1:50.1 which was a stakes record and tied the fastest time for a trotter of any age at The Meadowlands. He won by six lengths, the largest winning margin in The Hambletonian since

Mack Lobell Mack Lobell (1984–2016) was a brown racing trotter by Mystic Park out of Matina Hanover by Speedy Count. He won $3,917,594 during his career and was elected Harness Horse of the Year in 1987 and 1988. Among his many stakes victories were the ...

in 1987.2009 Hambletonian
The Hambletonian Society, Retrieved 14 February 2016 At the end of 2009 he retired to stud with career prize money of $3,273,342, and having won the last 20 of the 21 races in which he competed. The $2,456,041 that he won in 2009 was a record for a single season for either a trotter or a pacer. He was voted

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for 2009, the first time a trotter had won the award for an undefeated season. He never came close to defeat in his twenty wins which were all by a margin of at least one length. At stud his early foals have included Hambletonian winner Trixton and top filly Mission Brief. ,Marion Marauder - 1 50,2 - 2013 g.- winner Hambletonian , Bar Horring - 1.51,4 - 2013 g., Manchego - 1.49,0 - 2015 g. In January 2016 it was announced that Muscle Hill would be inducted into the Living Horse Hall of Fame.Three New Inductees to Living Hall
Standardbred Canada, Retrieved 14 February 2016

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{{reflist 2006 racehorse births American Standardbred racehorses Harness Horse of the Year winners American Champion harness horses United States Harness Racing Hall of Fame inductees