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He fell for it as a teenager when his father sent him here from Sweden to learn a little more about the family business: training harness horses.
Bo Takter figured Jimmy would enjoy the adventure, then return home and keep the family name atop the training standings for decades to come. In Sweden, after all, trotter trainers and drivers are as famous as hockey and soccer stars.
Jimmy Takter did return home, but not for long. He has kept the family name atop training standings for decades, but in the United States.
Since coming here in 1982 with a new wife, Christina, and 1-year-old daughter, Nancy, Takter has won nearly 1,000 races, earned more than $55.1 million in purses and captured three Horse of the Year titles. What started as a two-horse barn has grown into a 63-head stable of stake horses that Takter owns either outright or as a majority partner.
His family has grown as well and begins each morning at dawn together on his 100-acre facility here with its own five-eighths-of-a-mile training track. His children, Nancy, Tiffany and Jimmy Jr., put the horses through their paces in the morning, and his son-in-law Marcus Johansson drives many of them at night, including what may be Takter Stables’ fourth champion, the 3-year-old filly pacer See You at Peelers.
She is unbeaten in 18 starts — including an emphatic three-and-a-half-length thumping of the boys last month in the $307,734 Art Rooney Pace at Yonkers Raceway — and has earned more than $1.2 million in purses.
Last year, See You at Peelers finished 13 for 13 and became only the second 2-year-old filly pacer to win the division’s Dan Patch Award with an undefeated season. This year she has continued to look like a once-in-a-generation horse.
See You at Peelers equaled the world record in winning the Empire Breeders Classic at Tioga Downs, became the first filly to capture the Art Rooney, and then equaled the stakes record with a victory in the $601,000 Fan Hanover Stakes at Mohawk Racetrack in Canada.
“She is the Zenyatta of the pacing world,” said Takter, 50. “Like all the great ones, she’s got tremendous heart and desire and just won’t let another horse finish in front of her.”
Next up for the filly is a New York Sire Stakes race Saturday at Vernon Downs near Syracuse, but Takter intends to run her against the boys again and take aim at history.
He thinks See You at Peelers can become just the second filly to win the Little Brown Jug, one of pacing’s Triple Crown races, on Sept. 22 in Delaware, Ohio. It is harness racing’s most significant test of speed and endurance: a horse has to win two heats in one afternoon, usually within two hours of each other, to be declared the Little Brown Jug winner.
In 1981, Fan Hanover became the first filly to win the Jug, and none have even entered since.
“She really hasn’t been challenged or asked to do too much,” Takter said. “The colts have been knocking heads with one another all year, and they might be a little banged up. I really do think she’s good enough.”
Takter knows a lot about talented horses. He has developed dozens of trotters that have become successful stallions in Europe as well as North America. He also trained and often drove the two-time Horse of the Year Moni Maker, who at the time of her retirement in 2000 was the richest standardbred racehorse, with more than $5.5 million in career earnings.
In 1998, Moni Maker took Takter back to Sweden, where she won the famed Elitlopp in Solvalla, as well as major stakes in Italy and Denmark. She came back to the United States later that year to win the Breeders Crown and Nat Ray. In 1999, Takter took Moni Maker back to Europe to win the Prix d’Amérique in France and earn a second-place finish in the Elitlopp.
“He thinks outside the box,” said Perry Soderberg, a fellow Swede and bloodstock agent who helps Takter select horses at auction. “Jimmy is never satisfied with a performance. He always sees something that he believes he can improve on.”
His daughter Nancy, for example, is often the one to put a saddle on many of his trotters or pacers to jog along a straightaway here or gambol through the trails of the adjacent 6,000-acre Horse Park of New Jersey.
“It develops different muscles, and breaks up the monotony,” said Nancy Johansson, 30. “He is always experimenting and trying different things.”
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