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Grove City, OH – Clever Cody (The Panderosa) and Rose Run Zane (Racing Hill) have each won the first two legs of the Ohio Sires Stakes. Saturday night (July 6) the two will meet for the first time this year in the first $65,000 harness racing division for sophomore colt pacers.
Clever Cody, the 5-2 favorite will have the advantage starting from the rail, while Rose Run Zane, the 3-1 second choice, drew the sixth post position.
Aaron Merriman will drive Clever Cody for trainer Dr. Ian Moore. Clever Cody has won two of six starts this year.
Rose Run Zane will have Austin Hanners in the bike for Dan Venier. Rose Run Zane has hit the board in nine of ten starts, winning six.
The two have met twice before. Last year, Clever Cody won both matchups, winning the second leg of Sires Stakes and then winning in the $300,000 Ohio Sires Stakes Scarlet Championship.
In the first division of sophomore colt pacers, Dancin Moon (Dancin Yankee), a two-time winner in the Buckeye Stallion Series jumps to the Sires Stakes and is the early favorite. Aaron Merriman will drive Dancin Moon for Herman Hagerman. He has hit the board in nine of ten starts with six wins and is the 3-1 favorite.
The $100,000 Three-Year-Old Colt Trot should be a shootout as the winners of the first two legs will square off. Royal Precedent won the first leg at Miami Valley Raceway with Tennessee Tom, the Ohio Two-Year-Old Trotting Colt of the Year, winning the second leg at MGM Northfield Park. Ronnie Wrenn Jr. will drive Royal Precedent for Jodi Schillaci while Chris Page has Tennessee Tom’s lines for trainer Ron Burke.
Neither Royal Precedent nor Tennessee Tom is the morning line favorite. That honor belongs to Spaaaanzano. Spaaaanzano is 8-5. The Chris Beaver trainee finished second to Royal Precedent in the first leg and finished second to Tennessee Tom in the second leg. Tennessee Tom is the second choice at 9-5 with Royal Precedent 7-2.
The three Ohio Sires Stakes races are part of a 15-race card at Eldorado Scioto Downs. The total purse for the card is $1.2 million.
The card includes four $150,000 Next Generation races for two-year-olds, the $100,000 Moni Maker for three-year-old trotting fillies, and the $100,000 Nadia Lobel for three-year-old filly pacers.
The first race post time is 5:45 PM.
by Frank Fraas, for the OHHA
