After five qualifiers, multiple Dan Patch Award winner Mister Big is set to make his 2009 pari-mutuel debut -- and it's coming up sooner than many may think
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The son of Grinfromeartoear enters his six-year-old season off a solid 2008 campaign which saw the $55,000 yearling purchase win 11 of 14 races, finish off the board just once and bank over $1.5 million in purses. Mister Big has banked over $3.3 million in career earnings.
Trained by Virgil Morgan, Jr., Mister Big has drawn the outside starting spot, Post 6, for Chester Racetrack's $35,000 Open Handicap this evening, carded as Race 10.
World Away, a Western Terror half brother to Mister Big, will go through the sales ring Sunday, June 14 during Standardbred Canada's Spring Fling Mixed Sale, which will take place in the SC Sales Pavilion located in the Flamboro Downs backstretch.
World Away -- who is eligible to the $1.5 million Pepsi North America Cup -- has been catalogued as Hip #82. Click here to view the Spring Fling Mixed Sale catalogue.
Click here for complete information regarding both the Spring Fling Mixed Sale and the Twos In Training Sale.
The field for Chester's Open Handicap appears below.
Post - Horse - Driver - Trainer - Line
1 - Jk Lullabye - C. Callahan - T. Wise - 12-1
2 - Mighty Young Joe - S. Chiodo - S. Chiodo - 8-1
3 - Lucky Bettor - Y. Gingras - R. Burke - 5-1
4 - Mr Apples - M. Mayes - G. Teague, Jr. - 7-2
5 - Montecito N - Ti. Tetrick - M. Gelrod - 5-2
6 - Mister Big - B. Sears - V. Morgan, Jr. - 8-5
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