The Ohio Sires Stakes will wrap up its 2020 season this coming weekend with a quartet of $85,000 events for older horses on Friday, October 16 at Dayton Raceway and an octet of $75,000 consolation dashes featuring two- and three-year-olds of both gaits and genders on Saturday, October 17 at Northfield Park.
At Dayton, 14 veteran mares will line up behind the gate in a pair of seven-horse fields — one trot (Race 6) and one pace (Race 8). As well, 18 veteran horses and geldings will start in a pair of nine-horse splits: a trot (Race 10) and pace (Race 12). Post time at Dayton is 6:15 pm, ET.
The two standouts in the Ohio Sires Stakes Veteran Mare Trot are Pure Chance and A TC Queenie. Both mares have earned more than $400,000 lifetime and both are sired by Triumphant Caviar. Pure Chance is conditioned and co-owned by Chris Beaver for Steve Zeehandelar, while Ron Steck trains A TC Queenie for Trish Soulsby and Rick Schaut.
Two six-year-old mares, Big Bad Jane and Rosemary Rose, headline the Ohio Sires Stakes Veteran Mares Pace for trainers Christi Noble (the former) and Ron Burke (the latter). Big Bad Jane is a $406,184-earning daughter of Big Bad John who was bred by Sam Noble and owner Sandra Burnett, while Rosemary Rose is a daughter of Foreclosure N who was bred by Ron Salcedo and is owned by the partnership of Burke Racing, J. Mellilo and Weaver Bruscemi. Both mares have consistently plied their wares in the open and high conditioned ranks.
The Ohio Sires Stakes Veteran Trot features starters who have combined total earnings of $2,250,352, with the richest diagonally-gaited equine being former Ohio Sires Stakes champion Lane Of Stone. Trained by Mark Winters for breeder-owner Harry Horowitz, the four-year-old son of the exported Wishing Stone has lifetime earnings of $471,182, making him the richest trotter in the field of nine.
Harold Bauder’s Sectionline Bigry heads up the Ohio Sires Stakes Veteran Pace. The five-year-old homebred Pet Rock gelding has amassed $522,777 in his career for trainer Steve Bauder via 26 wins, 11 seconds and 10 thirds from 63 lifetime starts. He owns a record of 1:48.1 taken at Hoosier Park in the $35,000 Invitational on September 25 of this year.
Post time at Northfield Park for the Ohio Sires Stakes consolations is at 6 p.m. EDT on Saturday evening.
(Ohio Standardbred Development Fund)