Defending Kentucky champion Super Chapter defeated Mr Mouton by a head in a stretch battle at The Red Mile on the "Sunday Night Lights" card, sponsored by Crawford Farms, on Sept. 7 while Champagne Room handled her competition leaving previous leg winners Looksgoodinloulou and favoured Unreasonable behind. 

Each winner delivered top performances in the $111,111 fourth rounds of the Kentucky Championship Series for sophomore male trotters and filly pacers.

Rebounding from a miscue in the last leg, three-year-old trotting colt Super Chapter scored his hard-fought Kentucky Championship Series victory in 1:52.1 with regular reinsman Dexter Dunn driving for trainer Marcus Melander.

Te Quiero Lindy (Andy Miller) flew off the gate to establish a first fraction of :28.1 at 66-1 from post position five. Meanwhile, Super Chapter settled in third from post position two in the field of nine as Mr Mouton (Ake Svanstedt), a two-time winner in this series, took control at the half in :57.1 after leaving from the rail.

The top positions remained unchanged until the third quarter mark in 1:25.4, as Dunn gave Super Chapter the green light and the colt began to advance. The drive to the line was on and each horse did not disappoint. 

Super Chapter was behind by a nose at the final bend and Mr Mouton exerted every effort to not allow him to go by. Super Chapter ultimately prevailed over an incredibly game rival in a :26.2 final quarter. Monserrate (Yannick Gingras) came home third at 35-1.

Super Chapter is a son of Chapter Seven and Lifetime Pursuit. The classic-winning colt is 7-1-0 in nine sophomore starts and 12-4-1 overall from 20 races. He has earned $1.73 million in his career for owner/breeder Hanover Shoe Farms and partners Jeffery Snyder of New York City, New York and Arthur Pronti of New Jersey City, New Jersey.

The colt paid $2.72 to win as the favourite.

Champagne Room pulled off the mild 9-1 upset in the three-year-old trotting filly division by blitzing a final quarter in :25.3 with Andrew McCarthy in the bike for trainer Noel Daley. 

Champagne Room left from post position three in the field of six and resided in fourth position while Looksgoodinloulou  (Yannick Gingras) went right to the front. That leading filly set fractions of :28, :55.4 and 1:24 with favoured Unreasonable (Marcus Miller) laying in wait in second place.

Champagne Room pulled from fourth and threw down her big closing quarter to have her picture taken, winning by 1-1/4 lengths in 1:50.2. Her final frame was clocked a full second faster than the the runner-up's last quarter. 

Bred by Diamond Creek Farm, Champagne Room is owned by Patricia Stable of Massapequa, New York, L A Express And Sjoblom Inc. of Chesterfield, New Jersey and Michael Dolan of Sarasota, Florida. With her third win in seven starts this year, the Papi Rob Hanover-See You At Peelers filly improved her lifetime record to 4-1-5 in 17 races with her earnings climbing to $233,477.

Champagne Room returned $21.18 to win.

Todd McCarthy guided three-year-old pacing filly Found to a sweep of her four Kentucky Commonwealth Series preliminary divisions in 1:50.1 for trainer Brett Pelling. The half sister to 2023 U.S. Horse of the Year Confederate hit the wire in front of the Ron Burke-trained trio of Rose (Yannick Gingras), Aintnothingucando (Dexter Dunn) and Accede (Scott Zeron) in the $41,667 division. The daughter of Always B Miki-Geothermal races as a homebred for Pennsylvania's Diamond Creek Farm and is now seven-for-eight this year. Found paid $2.66 to win as the favourite.

Global Sensation defeated his favoured stablemate Blank (Andrew McCarthy) and Taipan As (Tony Hall) in the Commonwealth fourth leg for sophomore male trotters, scoring in 1:53.2 and improving to three-for-four in the series. Leaving from post position eight in the field of 10, Global Sensation performed his best work late, trotting home in :27.2. Bred by Al Libfeld, Marvin Katz and Sam Goldband, the Chapter Seven-Fly Angel Fly gelding is owned by Holly Lane Stud East Ltd. of Vero Beach, Florida and Daniel & Jean-Christophe Plouffe of Bromont, Que. Global Sensation paid $12.56 to win.

Owner/trainer Burlin Brower placed Kentucky Proud Series three-year-old male trotting champion Whiskey Wow ($3.40) in the Kentucky Championship Series but after a poor showing entered in the Golden Rod Series where the son of Crazy Wow-Whimzical Brett has been outstanding. With David Miller at the controls in for Sunday's $20,833 division, favourite Whiskey Wow defeated Breakthrough (Andrew McCarthy) and Ake Palema (Scott Zeron) in a new lifetime mark of 1:52.1. 

The other Golden Rod division for sophomore male trotters went to two-time Golden Rod winner Grande Via ($7.34) with Yannick Gingras in the bike for trainer Andrew Harris, who co-owns with New Jersey's Bill Pollock and Bruce Areman. The son of Muscle Hill-Megadolce completed the mile in 1:52.3 with You Dont Own Me (Todd McCarthy) and Ketel One Up (David Miller) more than five lengths behind him.

Favoured Baret ($2.56) doubled up in the Golden Rod for three-year-old filly pacers, winning in 1:50.4 with Andrew McCarthy driving for trainer Brett Pelling and owner Diamond Creek Racing. The daughter of Bettors Delight-Sail By scored over JK Fancy Nancy (Dexter Dunn) and Ronstadt (Scott Zeron).  

Duration ($3.26) broke through for her first win of the year, taking the other Golden Rod split as the favourite by a neck in 1:51.1 for driver David Miller and trainer Tony Alagna. Bytheliteofthemoon (Dexter Dunn) just missed and Swift Sarabi (Tim Tetrick) was third. The daughter of Captaintreacherous-Time On My Hands is owned by Robert Leblanc of New York City, New York, Joe Sbrocco of Brecksville, Ohio, Pryde Stables Inc. of North York, Ont., and Jaf Racing Llc of Staten Island, New York.

Three-year-old male trotter World By Storm ($3.22) earned his second straight Wildcat Series win over stablemate D Wood in 1:55.2 for trainer Anette Lorentzon. Tim Tetrick drove the $13,889 division's favoured winner and Tony Hall was aboard the runner-up. World By Storm, a gelded son of Tactical Landing out Womans Will, is owned by Acl Stuteri Ab of Paris, Kentucky.

On Monday, Sept. 8, the 14-race card at The Red Mile shifts the spotlight to older horses as two $35,000 third round divisions of the Kentucky Sire Stakes for four-year-old pacers -- one for the males and one for the females -- are feature events of the day.

(With files from The Red Mile; photo of Super Chapter winning on Sept. 7)