Sires Stakes Tonight At Northfield

Published: July 9, 2018 05:08 pm EDT

A pair of Ohio Sires Stakes for three-year-old diagonally-gaited colts and geldings will be contested this evening at Northfield Park. First-race post time will be at 6 p.m. (ET).

Seventeen diagonally-gaited sophomores will line up behind the starting gate for these $50,000 events, which have been scheduled as Races 3 and 11.

Mission Accepted will be looking to continue his sweep of the sires stakes series. Mission Accepted is a Manofmanymissions colt that is trained and co-owned by Jeff Conger along with partners Knox Services and David B. Wills. He’ll start from Post 7 for driver Ryan Stahl in the second sires stakes division (Race 11).

Mission Accepted won Leg 1 at Miami Valley on May 6 in 1:53 and Leg 2 on June 15 at Scioto Downs in a career-best 1:52. He also won a $25,000 Beal elim at Pocono Downs in 1:53.2 and was sixth in the final, beaten only three and a quarter lengths.

From 12 career starts, Mission Accepted has racked up eight wins and a third-place finish and banked $268,300. He is the fifth foal out of the SJs Photo mare Witty Girl 3,1:58.2f ($32,602) and is a half-brother to March Awareness (by Ken Warkentin) 7, 1:53 ($400,899) and to Wittys Winner (by Jailhouse Jesse) 5, 1:54.4s ($95,757).

The first sires stakes division (Race 3) is a wide-open event with no clear standout. Two O B Wonkenobi will he Sammy Widger in the sulky for trainer Earnie Gaskin from Post 5. The brown altered son of Dejarmbo is owned by Indiana partners Shara Weaver and Madeline Roche.

Two O B Wonkenobi finished second in the first two legs of the series and has four wins from nine starts this season; a 6-6-1 record from 15 lifetime starts, and $59,395 in career earnings. He is the fifth of six foals out of the Garland Lobell mare Shannon Hall 3, 1:54.1m ($108,787) and is a half-brother to Massive Drama (by Credit Winner) 4, 1:57h ($204,802).

(With files from the OSDF)

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