Sixteen Races Scheduled Saturday and Sunday Afternoons
    As Grand Circuit Harness Racing Begins at Delaware, Ohio

 

By Tom White
September 12, 2002
      

 
    Delaware, Ohio--Sixteen races are scheduled Saturday and Sunday
afternoons as the Delaware, Ohio County Fair kicks-off six days of Grand
Circuit harness racing. First race each day is 12-noon. The 57th Little Brown 
Jug is scheduled closing day, Thursday, September 19.

    2002 Horse of the Year Bunny Lake and World Trotting Derby Filly winner
CR Ms American Pie will be in action on Saturday. Bunny Lake faces six older
mares in the $16,700 Lady Pace and DR Ms American Pie is the 5/2 morning line
favorite in the $96,310 Buckette 3-YO Filly Trot. Sunday's features are the
$100,000 Ohio Breeders Championship 2-YO Filly Pace; $66,012 Ohio Breeders
3-YO Filly Trot; and five divisions of the Billings Amateur Driving Series.

    More than 400 outlets throughout North America will be simulcast racing
from Delaware to locations throughout the United States and Canada. For the
first time Las Vegas will make available simulcasting from Delaware and will
be linking up with several indian casinos and one location in Curacao.

    Bunny Lake, trained and driven by John Stark, Jr., has won five of 16
starts this season, has a 2002 mark of 1:49.4, and lifetime winnings of
$1,788,848. Tupelo Rose N, second choice at 3-1, comes into Saturday's race
with $141,814 and a 1:51.3 record this season.

    Rodney Allen's CR Ms American Pie won the $110,000 Filly World Trotting
Derby at Du Quoin, Illinois over 7/2 second choice Cartier Hall.

                    Final Road To The Jug Odds

    The entry box for the $600,000 Little Brown Jug closes at 10 o'clock
Saturday morning. Following is the final weekly Top 10 listing:

2-1 Art Major  
5/2 Mach Three
6-1 Allamerican Ingot
7-1 Monsoon Hall
10-1 Soho
10-1 Million Dollar Cam
12-1 Royal Mattjesty
15-1 Pacific Titan
20-1 Three Olives
25-1 Red River Hanover
         
    
 

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