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Thirty-One Jug Eligible Colts To Race In Saturday's Simcoe & Jug Preview By Tom White
Delaware, Ohio--Thirty-one Little Brown Jug eligibles will
be in action
Saturday night in either the $247,336 Simcoe Stakes at Mohawk
Raceway in
Campbellville, Ontario or in the $220,000 Jug Preview at Scioto
Downs. There
are another dozen or so three-year-old Jug hopefuls who are not
slated to
race this weekend including Cane Pace champion Art Major. Does
this mean that
the Delaware judges will have to invoke the "30" rule
which limits the
starting field to the top 30 lifetime money winners?
Mohawk's two Simcoe divisions drew some of 2002's
top Jug contenders
including Meadowlands Pace champion Mach Three; North America Cup
winner Red
River Hanover; and Adios victor Million Dollar Cam. Two of the
last three Jug
winners, Bettor's Delight and Blissful Hall ,won the Simcoe and
Jug
back-to-back. Other solid Jug contenders and 2002 stakes winners
racing in
the Simcoe include Royal Mattjesty, Allamerican Ingot and Ashlee's
Big Guy.
There will be three divisions of the Jug
Preview at Scioto Downs.
Pennsylvania Sires Stakes winner Yankee Sensation and multiple
Ontario Sires
Stakes winner Gold Fever are the picks in the first division.
Heading the
second division is stakes placed Yankee Sensation and Fancy
Schmansy, eight
times first or second at The Meadows. Three Olives, who was a
two-year-old
standout with earnings of more than $600,000, is the early choice
in the
third division Three Olives was second in both his North America
Cup and
Meadowlands Pace eliminations. Arts Advantage and Cheyenne Rei,
both stakes
winners in 2002, should provide plenty of competition.
Art Major has been the busiest and most
successful three-year-old since
early August. Earlier this season Art Major was overmatched and
failed to
earn a check at The Meadowlands in five of his first six starts.
Trainer Bill
Robinson sent him to Canada where he won four overnight races. He
returned to
stakes company with a second in a division of the Oliver Wendell
Holmes on a
losing day at The Meadowlands. He has been unbeatable since then,
He won
his elimination and final of the Hoosier and Confederation Cups on
the same
day and then captured his elim and Final of the Cane Pace.
Art Major wont start again until the 57th
Little Brown Jug on September
19th at Delaware, Ohio. John Campbell drives both Art Major and
Mach Three,
He said after the Cane, the driving assignments for the jug would
be decided
"by Bill and me when the times comes."
Other top Jug colts who will be on the
sidelines this weekend include
such stakes winners as Soho, Kilowatt, Third Straight, Western
Maverick, Up
Front Western, Life Is A Cabaret, Rounder, Mystic Art, Cam's Fast
Gun and
Henry Clay and Image Of Dawn.
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