Miller Looking For First NA Cup Victory

With the $1.5 million Pepsi North America Cup less than three-weeks away, driver Brett Miller doesn’t want to be a bridesmaid like last year

. The Ohio native piloted We Will See to a second-place finish last year for trainer Sam DePinto, and one year later Miller believes Big Bad John has enough talent and speed to be a top threat for this year’s edition.

The three-year-old son of Western Hanover-Trulyawork Of Art has only been beaten twice in his 11 career starts for trainer Ron Potter.

“He’s not a very good-looking horse,” Miller laughed. “He’s just an average size horse, but he’s got a gait to him that’s just unbelievable. When I sit behind him and we go quarters in :27 seconds it feels like were going :30 seconds.”

Last season Big Bad John captured the Standardbred Stakes during Delaware’s Grand Circuit, Bluegrass and International Stallion Stakes at the Red Mile, just to name a few.

Owned by Winchester Baye Acres Inc, Big Bad John has career earnings of $260,279 with a 1:50.2 lifetime mark taken last week at The Meadows. The nine-time winner is scheduled to race in a Pennsylvania Sires Stakes event this Friday at The Meadows before shipping to Ontario for the North America Cup.

(WEG)

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