It’s no wonder why; they win.
“We like the fillies,” said Lin Higgins. “It’s nice to have a mare that you can retire and breed.”
The Higgins camp has enjoyed two significant wins lately. Zintillating,a 3-year old pacing filly, won a $28,000 New Jersey Sires Stakes race at the Meadowlands on May 16. Zintillating stopped the clock at 1:54, just a nose in front of a competitive field. The filly’s full brother, a colt named Sharkey Spur, has made headlines recently with a lifetime earnings record of $800,000. Zintillating finished fourth in another race July 12. “She’s up against top competition, some of the best horses in the country right now,” said Higgins.
Another Higgins filly, Beignet Hanover, won the W.N. Reynolds Stake at Pocono Downs, Pa., on July 12. Her time of 1:57.2 established a new track record for 2-year-old fillies, which held since 1998. The Malabar Man filly, driven by Mike Simons, led the eight-horse field wire to wire and won by five lengths.
Show News: Christy Clark of Pinehurst has been on a winning streak with Olivia GP, a Morgan mare owned by Julie Strasser of Pinehurst.
At the Southern States Regional Championship in Raleigh, the pair won the Ladies Park Saddle class. At the Gold Cup Regional Morgan Horse Championships Show, they won the Ladies Park Saddle and were pinned reserve champions in the Park Saddle Amateur division.
Clark’s parents own and operate Flintlock Farm in Chapel Hill, now in its 30th year breeding and showing Morgan horses.
