2YO trotters in KY Championship Series

LEXINGTON, KY — Kentucky Championship Series action continues at The Red Mile on Monday (Aug. 23) with the harness racing trotting freshmen entering their third preliminary of the state-bred series.

The colts and geldings compete in a lone $40,000 dash – carded as Race 6 – with nine horses going to post. First-round winner Keg Stand ships back to Kentucky following a second-place finish in a division of Pennsylvania Sires Stakes at The Meadows on Friday, Aug. 13.

Dexter Dunn stays in the bike behind the Nancy Takter trainee from post 4 as Keg Stand competes against S I P, a Ron Burke trainee who scored in the second preliminary of the Kentucky Championship last week. Yannick Gingras will drive the Burke pupil from post 9.

Selfie Queen leads the single $40,000 split of the Kentucky Championship Series for trotting fillies, which goes as Race 10. The Nancy Takter trainee made a break when in tight quarters in last week’s overflow field of 12 in the second round. Before that miscue, Selfie Queen scorched the red clay to post a 1:53 mile in rein to Dexter Dunn, who stays in the sulky from post 1. Her stablemate American Beauty – a winner in the first preliminary of the Kentucky Championship – starts from post 4 with Yannick Gingras in the bike.

Monday’s stakes action also includes six $20,000 divisions of the Kentucky Commonwealth Series – three for the colts and geldings and three for the fillies. First-race post time is 1 p.m. (EDT).

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by Ray Cotolo, for The Red Mile