EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The Hambletonian has become trainer Jimmy Takters personal playground lately.The Swedish native has won trottings biggest race the past two years, and he has another chance on Saturday when he sends out five 3-year-olds at the Meadowlands, including the highly regarded Bar Hopping.No trainer has ever won three straight Hambletonians. One more win would also give the 55-year-old Hall of Famer a record-tying fifth triumph. Stanley Dancer, Billy Haughton and Ben White also won five.Bar Hopping is the favorite in the nine-horse first elimination. Southwind Frank is the favorite in the nine-horse second elimination, and the overall favorite to win the final.The top five finishers in each elimination advance to the final to determine the Hambletonian winner.Southwind Frank has win 16 of 18 career starts. His only two losses have been to Bar Hopping.At least we know hes challenged (Southwind) Frank, Takter said. He beat him fair and square earlier this year.Tim Tetrick, who will be looking for his first Hambletonian win, will drive Bar Hopping, starting from the No. 1 post position. The colt was impressive in capturing the $300,000 Zweig Memorial at Vernon Downs on July 24 in his final prep.Takter will also send out Lagerfeld, Love Matters, Jimmy William and Reigning Moni in the eliminations.Takter said the most important thing in training is not to change for a big race.People start over-doing things, train the horses maybe a little harder, or whatever, he said. I dont think thats smart. I think thats where experience comes in. The horse has no clue its the Hambletonian. The driver and trainer, yes. But the horse has no clue.Southwind Frank, who is trained by Ron Burke, has won 5 of 6 starts this year. He won the Reynolds Memorial Stakes in the slop here last weekend.Driver Yannick Gingras said Southwind Frank had plenty left in his tank at the end of the race.These are going to be his races to lose, Gingras said. Im not going to be looking to come third over or something like that. Im looking to have him in play and Im looking to have him aggressive.Gingras failed to win with the favorite in the last two Hambletonians. Breaking from the No. 10 post position, Father Patrick broke stride and never had a chance in 2014.Gingras drove both Pinkman and Mission Brief in their respective Hambletonian heats. He chose to drive the filly Mission Brief in the final and finished second to Pinkman, who was driven by Brian Sears.Here are the fields for the eliminations in post position order with horse, driver and odds:Elimination 1: Bar Hopping, Tetrick, 9-5; Lagerfeld, Gingras, 12-1; Make Or Miss, Joe Bongiorno, 20-1; Milligans School, Andy Miller, 10-1; Brooklyn Hill, David Miller, 3-1; Mavens Way, John Campbell, 6-1; Tight Lines, Jeff Gregory, 25-1; Iron Mine Bucky, George Dennis, 15-1; Reigning Moni, Mark MacDonald, 4-1.Elimination 2: Jimmy William, Tetrick, 20-1; The Royal Harry, Ake Svanstedt, 20-1; Sutton, Andy Miller, 6-1; Marion Marauder, Scott Zeron 3-1; Southwind Frank, Gingras, 4-5, Hollywood Highway, Campbell, 30-1; Dominion Beach, Bjorn Goop, 30-1; Love Matters, Brett Miller, 12-1; Waitlifter, David Miller, 10-1. Air Max 1 Outlet Sale . 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Once again, DeLaet finished tied for second at a PGA Tour stop on the weekend, this time at the Waste Management Phoenix Open. The pride of Weyburn, Sask. BROOKLINE, Mass. -- John Jack Kirrane Jr., the captain of the U.S. hockey team that won the gold medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics, has died. He was 88.The Brookline, Massachusetts, native died Sunday at a Quincy care facility from complications of Alzheimers disease, said his son, John P. Kirrane.Kirrane first played for the Olympic hockey team in 1948 at age 17. At the 1960 Squaw Valley Games, the 31-year-old defenseman led a squad of mostly college players to upsets of Canada and the Soviet Union before beating Czechoslovakia for the gold.His son was 5 years old at the time but clearly remembers the excitement as the whole family yelled and screamed around a small black-and-white television to watch the game.The gold medal, placed in a display case, was always somewhere around the house when he was growing up, but the younger Kirrane said his father was forever humble about the achievement.He didnt say much about it unless you asked him, his son said. He wasnt the type of guy to blow his own horn.dddddddddddd He was modest about it.The 1960 team never received the measure of fame enjoyed by the 1980 Miracle on Ice gold-medal team, but Kirrane didnt mind.He knew it was a different time, his son said. Back then, unless you were from Boston or Michigan or Minnesota, hockey really wasnt a big deal.Kirrane served in the Army during the Korean War, although he never saw combat, his son said. He was also a firefighter in Brookline for nearly four decades.The older Kirrane is a member of the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame and the Massachusetts Hockey Hall of Fame, while the skating rink in Brookline is named after him.He is survived by three children, as well as several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. His wife died in 2010.A funeral Mass is to be celebrated Thursday at St. Lawrence Church in Chestnut Hill. 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