World champion Herculisa heads a field of six three-year-old filly trotters in the $91,267 Ohio Breeders Championship in Monday action at the Delaware County Fair.
On September 5 in the $300,000 Ohio Sires Stakes final at MGM Northfield Park, Brett Miller guided the daughter of My MVP to a 3-1/2-length win in 1:52.3, which established a new world record for sophomore filly trotters over a half-mile oval.
Herculisa, who will be leaving from post position one in the OBC, is trained by Virgil Morgan Jr. and is scheduled to be driven by Brett Miller. Owned by Steve Finkelstein’s Jesmeral Stable of Scarsdale, New York, she has earned $356,862 lifetime and comes into the OBC with five wins in her last six starts.
Celebrate With Me, Swizzle Hanover and Designer Specs should be serious challengers to Herculisa.
Celebrate With Me (Chris Page, post six) has been first or second in nine of her 10 seasonal starts. She has won $279,132 for Burke Racing Stable, BFJ Stable, Weaver Bruscemi and Knox Services.
Swizzle Hanover (Mike Wilder, post five) has been ultra-consistent this year, picking up purse cheques in her last nine starts. She is co-owned by trainer Randy Bendis and Reed Broadway.
Designer Specs (Ryan Stahl, post two) was a perfect 14-for-14 last season as a two-year-old and has picked up another eight wins this season. She is co-owned by Louise and Jay Weller, who trains.
The Monday undercard will feature four $17,500 divisions of the Buckeye Stallion Series for three-year-old colt pacers and a quartet of $17,500 divisions of the BSS for freshman filly pacers.
Free past performance pages for Monday’s races are available at LittleBrownJug.com.
The 16-race card will go postward at 3 p.m.
(With files from Little Brown Jug)