Son of Creatine takes out MGM Grand Prix Trotting Final

Take All Comers, a 6-year-old son of Creatine, claimed the inaugural $250,000 MGM Grand Prix Trotting Series Final at Yonkers Raceway on Friday night (US time), sprinting home strongly to down the 2023 US Older Male Trotter of the Year It’s Academic by a head.

Take All Comers charged off the centre of the gate to take the lead briefly before handing up to It’s Academic at the first quarter marker.

In behind It’s Academic through the next few quarters, Take All Comers stormed home up the inside as soon as there was enough room, nabbing It’s Academic in the final few strides.

The Jim Campell trained gelding clearly relishes the tight 800m Yonkers track, having won or placed in eleven of his twelve starts at the track this year.

All up, Take All Comers has now won 20 races and $1,078,866 in stakes earnings, making him his sire’s second millionaire after the 2021 US Trotter of the Year Jujubee.

He is the highest earning foal of the Cantab Hall mare Nantab, who has also left the Breeders Crown winning filly Next Level Stuff.

Back in New Zealand, Creatine’s son Mighty Logan ran a terrific race to finish runner-up to the champion trotter Just Believe in last week’s $400,000 Group 1 Dominion Trot at Addington on Cup Day.

The Robert and Jenna Dunn trained 5-year-old is enjoying a breakout season this year, having recorded five wins and six placings from 14 starts in 2024, including stakes placings in the South Bay Trotters Cup, Uncut Gems Trotters Classic and the Sires Stakes Aged Classic, in addition to the above mentioned Dominion Trot.

In total, Mighty Logan has won eight races and $170,261 in stakes money.

He is out of the unraced Sierra Kosmos mare Landora’s Siesta.