Hot As Hill & Pub Crawl take Buckette splits
Hot As Hill (Joe Bongiorno) took the lead before the quarter mile station and never looked back in a 6 Ā¾ length score in 1:57 in the first $45,825 division of the Buckette for three-year-old filly totters.
The Muscle Hill lass is trained by Ron Burke for the Burke Racing Stable, Larry Karr, Knox Services, J & T Silva-Purnel & Libby.
Hot As Hill won for the fourth straight time and pushed his career earnings to $247,511.
HOT AS HILL REPLAY
Pub Crawl (Andy Miller) went gate-to-wire in the second Buckette division in 1:57.2.
The Bar Hopping filly defeated May Karp (Tim Tetrick) and Dutiful (David Miller) by a half-length.
Pub Crawl is conditioned by Julie Miller for Marvin and Lynn Katz, Al Libfeld and Sam Goldband.
PUB CRAWL REPLAY
Ā Simply Right Scores In Standardbred Filly Trot
Simply Right used a patient Tim Tetrick drive to take the $46,310 Standardbred filly trot, holding off Pocahontas (Scott Zeron) in 2:01.4.
The Swan For All filly, who picked up her second career win, is owned by Al Libfeld and trained by Anette Lorentzon.
SIMPLY RIGHT REPLAY
Heavy Favorite Takes Standardbred Filly Pace
The heavy 1-9 favorite A Girl That Twirls (Andrew McCarthy) did not disappoint in the $42,710 Standardbred pace for freshman fillies.
A Girl That Twirls scored a 1:59 mile and three-quarter length win over Gonna B Good (Tyler Smith) and Wine And Dine Me (Joe Bongiorno).
The American Ideal filly won for the third time this season for owner D Racing Stable and trainer Deborah Daguet.
A GIRL THAT TWIRLS REPLAY
Reichers Caviar and Iāll Annie Up Take 2FT OBC Divisions
Reichers Caviar (David Miller) overcame post position #8 and passed Whatās Up Cupcake (Tyler Smith) in the final strides to win the first division of the $124,000 (div) Ohio Breeders Championship for two-year-old filly trotters.
Reichers Caviar, who won in 2:04.1, is co-owned by Lance & Larry Baylis and trained Chris Beaver. Her career earnings are just $313 short of $100,000 for the season.
REICHERS CAVIAR REPLAY
Iāll Annie Up (Chris Page) scored an upset in the second $62,000 division at odds of 11-1.
The Uncle Peter filly was able to get by the pacesetting Gabbys C Note (Aaron Merriman) in mid-stretch to win in 2:02.2. Purple Aura (Anthony MacDonald) rallied for third.
Iāll Annie Up made it two straight wins for owners Burke Racing Stable, Weaver Bruscemi, W. Donovan and Joe Sbrocco.
I’LL ANNIE UP REPLAY
Millionaire Takes OBC Aged Trot
Mission Accomplished (Chris Page) took the $17,500 OBC aged trot event in 1:57.4.
The six-year-old son of Manofmanymissions won for the 32ndĀ time in his career defeating Shine All The
Way (Ronnie Wrenn, Jr.) by a half-length. Pure Chance (Aaron Merriman) and Yes (Anthony MacDonald) were third and fourth.
Mission Accomplished, who has earned $1.1 million, is owned by Burke Racing Stable, Knox Services, David Wills and Weaver Bruscemi.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED REPLAY
The 20-race card for the 76th Little Brown Jug, presented by the Ohio Harness Horsemanās Association, will get underway at 12:00 noon on Thursday (September 23).
by Jay Wolf, for the Little Brown Jug