In The Grippers started her 2014 season just as she finished her 2013 season by dominating her Ohio Sires Stakes rivals.
Friday at Miami Valley, driver Chris Page sent the big trotting filly to the front at the start of her $40,000 Sires Stakes split and she led at every post. The 2-5 favourite won by five and a quarter lengths in 1:58.4 over Anniesbluejeanbaby and Mclean.
Herres Stable LCC owns the daughter of Steven One, who is trained by Virgil Morgan. It was In The Grippers' first start of the year after several qualifiers.
Two races later, Page and Morgan scored another victory in a $40,000 split when Fayco Filly sat behind God Only Knows for much of the mile and then zoomed past the pacesetter to score a three-quarter-length win in 1:56. APP Panda got the runner-up money while Lady Julie finished third. God Only knows faded to finish fourth.
Fayco Filly scored her first win of the season in a trio of tries. The winning pacing filly paid $7.40 to win and is owned by Marital Property LLC.
Crown Time Keeper kept her 2014 slate perfect with her third win in as many tries. The odds-on filly overtook the early leader Friskies Angel to post a two length win in 1:56.2 for Page and trainer Steve Carter.
The Sires Stakes winner was bred and is owned by Esther Crownover, a longtime patron of harness racing in Ohio. Crown Time Keeper had previously won the elimination and final of the James K. Hackett Memorial Pace at Miami Valley.
Turbochargedroxie stepped to the front of the pack in her trotting split for driver Dan Noble and they went on to score an easy three and a quarter lengths win over Sandys Victory and Emery Jean.
Danny Collins trains the Cayenne Turbo trotting filly for Joyce McClelland, DM Stables LLC, Dean Davis, and William Rufenacht. As the heavy favourite, Turbochargedroxie paid $2.20 and tripped the timer in 1:59.3. She’s now got a first and second in two races this year.
(With files from Miami Valley)