Trained by Marcus Melander for owners Jeff Snyder and Arthur Pronti and owner/breeder Hanover Shoe Farms, the son of Chapter Seven has 9 wins in 14 starts and is this season’s richest trotter in North America with $1.2 million in harness racing earnings.
Super Chapter started its season with signature victories in the Yonkers Trot and Empire Breeders Classic. He later won an elimination and finished second in the $1,000,000 Grade 1 Hambletonian Stakes final at the Meadowlands. He followed that effort with a world record of 1:50f at the Earl Beal Jr. Memorial at Pocono Downs with lead driver Dexter Dunn in the sulky.
Super Chapter was a strong contender for the honors in the Dan Patch division, dancing every dance and placing third by half a length in the Kentucky Futurity (trotting in 1:49.2), finishing a close second in the Breeders Crown and ending his season with a decisive six-length victory in the Matron Stakes.
When the Monticello-Goshen Chapter of the American Harness Writers Assoc. (USHWA) will hold their 66th annual Awards Banquet on Sunday, December 7, 2025, presenting sponsor the New York Sire Stakes, along with representatives from District 8 of the US Trotting Association, who will honor a host of additional equine awards, including Breeders Crown Champion The Last Martini; and multiple Grand Circuit stakes winners and NY Night Of Champions standouts AI, Dandy Ideal and Fragment.
This year, the chapter once again has the opportunity to include the New York Sire Stakes (NYSS) and USTA’s District 8 Awards, which will complement the year-end awards for horses and horse people from the local tracks. This year the event’s dinner sponsor is the Hambletonian Society and Breeders Crown.
New York State awards include:
US Trotting District 8 and the The 2025 NYSS Human Awards go to: Driver of the Year, Jason Bartlett (a leading contender for Dan Patch Driver of the Year); Coach of the Year, Jared Bako; Owner of the Year, Purple Haze Stables; Breeder of the Year, Winbak Farm, alongside Excelsior Trainer, George Ducharme; County Fair trainer, Dylan Huckabone-Miller, and County Fair driver, Kyle Cummings.
US Trotting District 8 and the The 2025 NYSS Champion Horse Awards go to: Horse of the Year, Super Chapter; Fragment (2-year-old Colt Pace), Liberty Style (2FP), AI (2CT), Sharp Seven (2FT), Dandy Ideal (3CP), The Last Martini (3FP), Happy Jack B (3CT), My Debt Collector (3FT).
NY Excelsior Series 2025 Champions: Southwind Iron (2CP), Two Twenty Swift (2FP), Rubens (2CT), Elqueen (2FT), Ima Perfect Choice (3CP), Time To Strike (3FP), Mane Man Charlie (3CT), EL Nightwish (3FT).
NY County Fair 2025 Champions: Brave Warrior (2CP), Where’s My Sneakers (2FP), Highway Six (2CT), Sevenboysalooking (2FT), Southwind Rodan (3CP), Bobby McGee (3FP), Devious Paul (3CT), Per Se (3FT).
Additionally, when the Monticello-Goshen USHWA Chapter marks their 66e During the annual Awards Banquet on Sunday, December 7, 2025, Moira Fanning will receive the chapter’s highest honor: their Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Monticello-Goshen Chapter will also honor Ralph Scunziano (Excelsior Award); Keith Hamilton (John Gilmour Good Guy Award); Janet Durso (Amy Bull Crist Distinguished Service Award); James Crawford IV (Cradle of the Trotter Breeders Award); Jessica Hallett (Phil Pines Award); Dylan Huckabone-Miller (rising star); Barb and Liz Stubits (Mighty M Award of Appreciation) and Brenna Gill (Carer of the Year).
Funds raised through the pastry and souvenir magazine have allowed the Monticello-Goshen Chapter to donate more than $150,000 to Goshen Historic Track and the Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame over the past twenty years. The track and the museum are two separate and distinct entities that share the same hallowed ground and a common goal: to preserve and promote harness racing.
The practice of raising money and donating money to Historic Track and the Hall of Fame began in the mid-1970s with publicity icon John Manzi of Monticello Raceway, and has continued ever since.
Additional information can be found on our website: monticellogoshen.com
Tickets for the gala event at The Country Club at Otterkill, Campbell Hall, NY, can be reserved by contacting Shawn Wiles at (845) 798-4074, or email: swiles@rwcatskills.com
To place a congratulatory ad in the souvenir diary, please contact Chris Tully at (845) 807-7538, or by email: tullytrot@yahoo.com
of the Monticello-Goshen Chapter of USHWA
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