A pair of the nation’s top reinsmen has been added to the second elimination in Thursday’s $609,150 Little Brown Jug. John Campbell will drive Born To Rockn Roll
(Post # 5). Campbell owns three Jug titles and is the second winningest driver at the Delaware County Fair. Tim Tetrick will pilot Nob Hill High (Post #6). Tetrick has won over 500 races and $11 million in 2009.
Small But Powerful Winbak Field
Mister Big, winner of over $3.9 million, leads a small but fast field of four in Thursday’s $50,300 Winbak Farm Pace.
Mister Big and driver Brian Sears will leave from post #3 and took his lifetime mark of 1:47.4 in 2007. The 6-year-old son of Grinfromeartoear is trained by Virgil Morgan, Jr. for owner Joseph Muscara. Mister Big won the 2008 edition of the Winbak Pace in 1:51.
Just to the outside of Mister Big will be Won The West and David Miller. Won The West won the $500,000 Breeders Crown Aged Pace on August 22 in 1:47. The five-year-old Western Hanover gelding is owned by the Strollin Stable of Marion, OH and William J. Robinson and James C. Koehler of Findlay, OH.
Booze Cruzin (Sam Widger) and Atochia (Dave Palone) will leave from the rail and post 2, respectively.
The all age track record is 1:49 set by Jet Laag in 1999.
Ms. Versatility Final Set
Buck I St Pat, the reigning Ohio Horse of the Year, leads a field of seven in Thursday’s $111,000 Ms. Versatility Final.
Buck I St Pat comes into the final as the series’ top point’s earner and has career earnings of $1.3 million. The 6-year-old Jailhouse Jesse mare will leave from post 3 and will be reined by Tim Tetrick.
Buck I St Pat’s chief competition should come from Lavec Dream and Classic Lane.
Lavec Dream owns a career mark of 1:52.3 and has earned $964,000 for owner/trainer Peter Kleinhans. Lavec Dream has post 5 and the services of Yannick Gingras.
Classic Lane has six wins in 18 seasonal starts and a mark of 1:52. The Lindy Lane mare will be driven by Hall of Famer Mike Lachance.
The Ms. Versatility Final brings the top points earners from three preliminary legs held at the Meadowlands (a one mile track), Tioga Downs (a five-eights mile track) and Vernon Downs (a seven-eights mile track).
“In its short history the Ms. Versatility has proven to be a solid test for an older trotting mare’s ability on all size tracks,” noted Jason Settlemor, Vice President of Racing and Simulcasting at Tioga and Vernon Downs, co-sponsors of the series.
The Ms Versatility Final is sponsored by Jeff Gural’s Allerage Farm.
(Little Brown Jug)