The father-and-son team of Chip Noble and son Dan won three of the four Ohio Sires Stakes legs for sophomore fillies at Scioto Downs on Sunday afternoon
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Ohio Hall of Famer Chip started the afternoon by winning with ML Cupcake and Dan, the third leading race-winner in North America, polished off the final two sires stakes with Caris True and Rose Run Marci. The other leg was taken by driver Kayne Kauffman and Crossthreaded.
The trotting filly ML Cupcake led all the way to win in 1:58.3 over Fire In The Cell and Rockin H Winnie.
She is trained by Scott Mogan for William Johnson and Douglas Millard. The daughter of Master Lavec is wearing trotting hopples this season after not using them last year.
“I wish we’d used them last year because I think that cost her some races,” said driver Noble after the race.
Son Dan won the other OSS trotting division with Rose Run Marci. He had driven her to second and third place finishes in her first two starts.
“I wanted to put her on the front end today because I thought she’d be brave there and she was,” said Noble after the race. He had her on cruise control through fractions of :30.1, 1:00.1, and 1:30 and she hit the wire in 1:59.2. Count The Credit was second and Sleek Jessie third.
She is owned by James Arledge of trained by Jim Arledge, Jr.
Dan Noble also triumphed with the soph pacing filly Caris True in a pacesetting performance that ended with a 1:53.2 win over Pretty Blue Eyes and Eradikate. The Smiling Pace Stable owns the daughter of Yankee Cruiser and Virgil Morgan, Jr. trains her. It was her fourth win in five starts this year.
The Nobles were denied a sweep of the OSS events when Crossthreaded pulled off an 11-1 upset of the 2-5 favourite Ocean Pearl in the opening pacing split. Dawn By The River set incredibly fast fractions with Ocean Pearl sitting pretty in the pocket, but Crossthreaded made a bold challenge in the third quarter. She got ahead of Ocean Pearl but driver Kayne Kauffman wasn’t confident.
“I’ve raced against Ocean Pearl and had her pace right away from me, so, no, I wasn’t all that confident,” said Kauffman.
But Ocean Pearl couldn’t pace with Crossthreaded in the stretch and scored a half-length victory in 1:56.1 while the 25-1 shot Surf New York edged Ocean Pearl for third.
Jim Mulinix trainers Crossthreaded, a daughter of Towners Big Guy he owns in partnership with Jamie Buehrer.
(Scioto Downs)