By: centraljersey.com
MONROE – Millstone’s Daniel Dube, a harness racing driver who keeps his horses at Monroe’s Congress Hill Farm, won the prestigious $604,100 Little Brown Jug on Sept. 23 in Delaware, Ohio, driving the 3-year-old colt stallion Rock N Roll Heaven.
The Little Brown Jug race is basically "the Kentucky Derby of harness racing," according to Congress Hill Farm owner Sam Landy.
A horse and driver must win two separate heats in order to win the entire competition.
Mr. Dube, who is originally from Canada and has lived in Millstone for the past five years, said that during the race he hoped "everything would go OK." And it turned out everything did go OK, because not only did he win both heats and the entire race, but he also set a world record for fastest time at the Jug, which, according to the U.S. Trotting Association website, is 3.38.4 minutes for the total of both heats. He finished each heat in 1:49.2 minutes.
Mr. Dube attributed his win to "luck" and Rock N Roll Heaven, which is owned by Frank J. Bellino of New York and trained by Bruce Saunders of New Jersey.
Mr. Dube keeps and trains his own horses at Congress Hill Farm, a 200-acre standardbred race horse breeding and training facility that was acquired by Mr. Landy’s family in 1986.

