The new harness racing dynasty of Bruce Aldrich Jr. and Bob Lounsbury has begun at Monticello Raceway.
For the 2nd consecutive year both Aldrich and Lounsbury have captured their respective categories for leading Trainer & Driver at Monticello Raceway in 2015.
Bruce Aldrich Jr. took the leading driver title by virtue of his 390 wins and purses of $1,163,520 at Monticello Raceway, he is also ranked 4th in the nation with 663 wins and 3.4 million in purses. Bruce splits his time between Monticello and Saratoga, he was also the leading drivers at Saratoga with 273 wins. James Taggart Jr. was runner up with 277, Taggart did most of the driving for leading trainer Robert Lounsbury. Larry Stalbaum was 3rd with 220 wins, 2013 leading dash winner James Marohn Jr finished the year with 200 trips to the winners circle and rounding out the top 5, was Jason Ryan (199) James Taggart had the most starts in the driving colony with 1539.
Monticello Raceways Rising Star Award winner Shawn Simons finished the year with respectable numbers of 18 wins and a UDRS of .193.
On the training side of the slate, Robert Lounsbury won the leading trainer title for the 2nd consecutive year and earned $469,272 in purses. Lounsbury was also the leader percentage (UDRS) trainer in the nation with over 500 starts or more. The Lounsbury Stable led the pack with 183 winners for the year, this was 56 wins more than runner up Kim Asher of the powerful Larry Stalbaum Stable who was second with 127, Dan Gill (103) Gary Messenger (90) and Bruce Aldrich (45).
Robert Lounsbury also leads the filed as leading percentage trainer with a 100 starts or more with UDRS of .569, followed by Mike Watson .545 , Jennifer Lappe .488, David Russo .477 and Kimberley Asher .460.
By Shawn Wiles