Plan B: Perfect Sting going in Little Brown Jug

Lexington, KY — The USTA”s Gordon Waterstone reports that when harness racing trainer Joe Holloway set up a 2021 race schedule for Perfect Sting — whose perfect 10-for-10 record in 2020 led to Dan Patch honors as the 2-year-old Colt Pacer of the Year — the Little Brown Jug’s date of Sept. 23 was not checked off.

But with Woodbine Mohawk Park moving the C$1 million Pepsi North America Cup from its scheduled mid-June date to early September due to COVID-19 protocols in place in Ontario, Holloway had to go to “Plan B,” and that included sending Perfect Sting to Canada for the Cup and bypassing the Kentucky Sires Stakes at The Red Mile.

Plan B also included Perfect Sting (Always B Miki) competing in next week’s Jug at Delaware, Ohio, and that made his driver, David Miller, ecstatic.