ACCEPTING ENTRIES the Big Ohio Sires Stakes (OSS) Night of Champions Pro- Gram Is Set for Saturday Night at Scioto Downs, with a First Post of 6:30 P.M
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2018 ©2018 HORSEMAN PUBLISHING CO., LEXINGTON, KY USA • FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION CALL (859) 276-4026 Ohio’s Championship Night Set For Saturday ACCEPTING ENTRIES The big Ohio Sires Stakes (OSS) Night of Champions pro- gram is set for Saturday night at Scioto Downs, with a first post of 6:30 p.m. The card includes eight OSS champi- onships, each worth $275,000, with North America Cup win- ner Lather Up among the entries in the 3-year-old colt and CHAMPIONS CENTER, SPRINGFIELD, OH gelding pace. The Ohio Sires Stakes finalists will all be at Scioto six hours before their race for detention. The 14-race card also features the $250,000 Jim Ewart Me- NOVEMBER 13-14-15, 2018 morial, with the field including last Saturday’s Canadian Pacing Derby winner McWicked, plus a match race between BLACK TYPE SESSION - TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13 the great Foiled Again and the fast Lucky Lime, who has 41 Black type entries close October 1. career wins. (See story on page 7). Mixed sale entries close around October 10 (or when full). The traditional Jug Preview did not fill—only four horses were entered—Always A Prince, Courtly Choice, Dorsoduro Enter online now at www.bloodedhorse.com Hanover and Done Well. Stacy Cahill, general manager of racing operations for Eldorado Scioto Downs, said, “this will be the last year I write that race.” Don’t be late to the track on Saturday night because Race 2 (post time 6:50 p.m.) is the OSS championship for 2-year- old filly trotters and the field includes six-time winner Only Take Cash. Bred and owned by trainer Bob McIntosh, the “There’s No Substitute for Experience” filly is the daughter of two of his big winners on the track: JERRY HAWS CHARLES MORGAN (937) 947-1218 half-mile track world record holder Cash Hall and Armbro P.O. Box 187 • Wilmore, Kentucky 40390 Phone: (859) 858-4415 • Fax: (859) 858-8498 DEAN BEACHY & ASSOCIATES Affair, winner of the 2004 Breeders Crown Mare Trot at the [email protected] Auctioneers Meadowlands. “She’s a really nice filly and has been a sweetheart,” said McIntosh of Only Take Cash. “She has a great way of getting $250,000 JIM EWART MEMORIAL over the ground. She’s not a real big filly but very light on Scioto Downs, Saturday, Sept. 9, Race 12, Post Time: 10:10 pm her feet and great gaited. Post—Horse Driver/Trainer Odds “She’s versatile and can come from behind or race on top. 1—Western Joe C. Page/C. Choate 4-1 I wasn’t sure how good she was so I didn’t really stake her 2—McWicked D. Miller/C. Coleman 3-1 up to much. The Ohio Sires Stakes will be enough I think. 3—Dr. J Hanover R. Wrenn Jr./T. Alagna 10-1 Next year I can get her in more stuff.” 4—All Bets Off M. Kakaley/R. Burke 12-1 Only Take Cash, who has been regularly driven by Aaron 5—Western Fame T. Smith/J. Takter 8-1 Merriman, finished second in her first Sires Stakes and has- 6—Split The House A. Merriman/C. Oakes 6-1 7—Dealt A Winner T. Tetrick/M. Silva 15-1 n’t lost since. 8—Beckhams Z Tam R. Macomber Jr./J. Macomber 10-1 Armbro Affair, a daughter of Garland Lobell who sold for 9—Filibuster Hanover T. Hall/R. Burke 8-1 $185,000 as a yearling, was retired from racing with a 10—Nuclear Dragon D. Noble 9-2 Continues on page 2 ›››› WHAT’S INSIDE . Harness racing at Louisville Downs?—pg. 2 Nob Hill High makes mark—pg. 8 McIntosh hopes for best in Wellwood—pg. 4 Stay Hungry, Six Pack win Crown races—pg. 10 Jug future wagering now available—pg. 5 Cushing savors Foiled Again victory—pg. 10 Foiled Again vs. Lucky Lime—pg. 7 McWicked best Lazarus N—pg. 11 No elims for CTC, Elegantimage—pg. 7 Crazy Wow posts 31-1 upset—pg. 11 HarnessRacing Weekend Preview, 2 of 15 September 7, 2018 www.harnessracing.com record of 1:53.4. She proved to be a difficult breeder, pro- FREE ducing only six foals in 14 years, and last fall McIntosh sold THIS WEEKEND’S her for $2,700. Program Pages “She had a couple decent racehorses but this is the best FEATURED RACES one by far,” said McIntosh. “She’s about the same size as All times listed are local. her mother.” Friday, Sept. 7 Later on the card, Lather Up starts from post 5 in Race 9. 7:30p Wbsb2 Champlain 2CP div. Trackmaster PPs A winner of nine of 11 starts this season, no one else in 7:50p Wbsb3 Champlain 2FP div. Trackmaster PPs this field has shown the kind of speed Lather Up has dis- 8:10p Wbsb4 Champlain 2FP div. Trackmaster PPs played. He won his last start, at Scioto on Aug. 18, when 9:30p Wbsb8 Champlain 2CP div. Trackmaster PPs he won the final Sires Stakes leg with a handy 3 1/2-length 9:50p Wbsb9 Champlain 2CP div. Trackmaster PPs victory in 1:50.2. Click here to download all Friday PPs While McWicked leads the Ewart field, the 10-horse race Saturday, Sept. 8 includes two supplements, Western Joe, fresh off a victory 7:30p Wbsb2 Peaceful Way 2FT elim Trackmaster PPs in the $100,000 Great Northeast Series final at Pocono, and Ohio sensation Nuclear Dragon, a 1:48.2 winner this year. 7:50p Wbsb3 Peaceful Way 2FT elim Trackmaster PPs The supplement to the race was $11,250.—By Kathy Parker 8:50p Wbsb6 Wellwood Mem. 2CT elim Trackmaster PPs 9:10p Wbsb7 Wellwood Mem. 2CT elim Trackmaster PPs 9:10p ScD9 OHSS 3CP Trackmaster PPs Harness Racing At Louisville Downs 9:30p Wbsb8 Simcoe 3FP Trackmaster PPs In 2019? 10:10p ScD12 Ewart Mem. OHP Trackmaster PPs 10:10p Wbsb10Simcoe 3CP div. Trackmaster PPs Harness racing may be returning to Louisville Downs 10:30p Wbsb11 Simcoe 3CP div. Trackmaster PPs in 2019. 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It’s been feast or famine for Royal Rob this year and “I think he would have jogged last week if he didn’t make trainer and co-owner Bob McIntosh hopes it’s the former the mistake,” said McIntosh. “He was trotting good but he this week and next as the 2-year-old trotter will start in was hitting over the top of the trotting boot up in the hock,” Saturday night’s William Wellwood Memorial elimina- said McIntosh. “I put an extended pair of boots with a hock tions at Woodbine Mohawk Park, hoping to advance to guard on them and he seems good. He trained today (Sept.