Holloway to be inducted into Delaware’s Sports Hall of Fame – Harnesslink

Harness racing Corridor of Famer Joe Holloway will likely be honored together with eight others at induction ceremonies for the Delaware Sports activities Museum & Corridor of Fame on Thursday, Could 12, 2022, on the Chase Middle on the Riverfront in Wilmington, DE.

Holloway, 66, who graduated the College of Delaware in 1978 with a level in animal science, is the second member of his household to enter the Delaware Sports activities Corridor of Fame.  His brother, Jack, was a 2008 inductee.

Whereas Jack coached wrestling, Joe tackled horse racing and was chosen for the Harness Racing Corridor of Fame in 2019.

Holloway’s eighth and ninth Breeders Crown trophies got here courtesy of his tenth divisional champion, Good Sting, who gained harness racing’s end-of-season premier occasion in each 2020 and 2021.

A mainstay within the coaching colony at harness racing’s premier venue, he teamed with proprietor David Rovine with Tuff Alternative, winner of 13 straight races on the Meadowlands in 1985.

It could be his masterful dealing with of $1.9 million-earner Jenna’s Seashore Boy that will put Holloway into the highlight.  Jenna’s Seashore Boy would win three Breeders Crowns, take dwelling divisional honors in 1994, 1995 and 1996, earn Pacer of the Yr in 1995 and 1996, and set up a world file of 1:47.3 that stood for a decade.

Holloway was voted the game’s prime coach in 1995, thanks, partly, to She’s A Nice Girl, who earned simply shy of $1 million and was a divisional champion in each 1995 and 1996.

A few of his different post-season honorees included 2012 Two-Yr-Previous Pacing Filly of the Yr Somwherovrarainbow, 2015 Three-Yr-Previous Pacing Filly of the Yr Divine Caroline and 2016 Horse of the Yr At all times B Miki.

Joe and his spouse, Judy, reside in Freehold, NJ and have two sons, Tyler and Chris.

by Carol Hodes