Live video is available from Hollywood Dayton Raceway's stakes-packed 14-race card on Saturday, Oct. 3 that includes four $250,000 USD Dayton Derby Grand Circuit events and eight $80,000 USD divisions of the Buckeye Stallion Series finals. 

The Dayton Trotting Derby, one of four $250,000 USD graded stakes on Saturday’s card at Hollywood Dayton Raceway, features the sport’s No. 1-ranked horse in Super Chapter, the No. 3-ranked horse in On To Norway, the 2025 Dan Patch Trotter of the Year (and the race’s defending champion) Lexus Kody and 2025 O’Brien divisional award winner Emoticon Legacy. 

Super Chapter is the even-money morning line favourite. The four-year-old son of Chapter Seven-Lifetime Pursuit enters with four straight wins, including the MGM Yonkers International Trot, Maple Leaf Trot and John Cashman Memorial – all Grade 1 events. A Dan Patch Award divisional champ last, he has earned $3.9 million lifetime. He will leave from post four with Dexter Dunn driving for trainer Marcus Melander.

Prince Hal Hanover (driver Todd McCarthy, post two, 2-1 morning line odds), Best Chip (Joe Bongiorno, post nine, 3-1) and Ken Hanover (Tim Tetrick, post one, 9-2) are the top choices in the Dayton Pacing Derby. The field also includes defending champion Ervin Hanover.

The 5-2 morning line choice in the Dayton Oaks Derby, for trotting mares, is Warrawee Michelle, who won the Miss Versatility Series final (Grade 3) last week at the Delaware County Fair in Ohio. She will leave from post five with trainer/driver Åke Svanstedt.

In the Dayton Distaff Derby, for pacing mares, two-time defending champ Twin B Joe Fresh is the 2-1 morning line favourite and will leave from post six with Dunn in the sulky.

Racing begins at 6:30 p.m. at Hollywood Dayton Raceway and the graded stakes are races 10 through 13. For Saturday’s free program, click here.

(USTA)