Harness: Muscles Yankee passes away at Perretti Farms

Muscles Yankee (Valley Victory-Maiden Yankee), Hambletonian champion of 1998 and among the greatest trotting stallions in history, passed on peacefully in his paddock at Perretti Farms on Mother’s Day (May 9). The sad news was reported by Nicola Abrams, manager of the still-existing Cream Ridge, New Jersey farm.

Muscles Yankee, immortalized as the sire of the greatest trotter in this decade Muscle Hill, won 19 of 25 starts at ages 2 and 3, and retired with earnings of $1,424,938. A foal of 1995, Muscles Yankee was age 25 this year.

-edited release (Perretti Farms)