No Red Mile For Bee A Magician

As the Grand Circuit shifts its attention to Lexington's Red Mile this week, harness racing's top rated horse will instead be heading North.

Trainer Richard 'Nifty' Norman stated during the Little Brown Jug simulcast program that Bee A Magician would not be racing during Grand Circuit week at Lexington. Instead, Bee A Magician will be racing this Saturday in the Ontario Sires Stakes Super Final with an appearance in the Breeders Crown after that.

Norman confirmed with Trot Insider late last week that plan is still intact. After the Breeders Crown, Norman stated that there could be another start in the Moni Maker for the Kadabra-Beehive filly and that would mark the end of her stellar sophomore season.

Owned by Melvin Hartman of Ottawa, Ont. and Florida's Herb Liverman and David McDuffee, Bee A Magician is currently on a 13-race win streak that dates back to last year's OSS Super Final on Nov. 10, 2012. She's since won all 12 of her sophomore starts adding over $1 million in purses to her $1.7-million lifetime bankroll.

Aside from winning three Gold Series events including the Mid-Summer Challenge, Bee A Magician has taken on the top filly trotters in North America and boasts rich victories in the Hambletonian Oaks, Elegantimage Stakes, Delvin Miller Memorial and Simcoe Stakes, among others. She's already a world record-holder courtesy of her career-best 1:51 score in the Del Miller at New Jersey's Meadowlands Racetrack, making her the fastest three-year-old trotter this season regardless of sex.