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Real Desire and Chip Chip Hooray In Action Thursday At Delaware, Ohio By Tom White
Delaware, Ohio--Two-time Breeders Crown
champion Real Desire and
$1,000,000 Hambletonian winner Chip Chip Hooray will share
Thursday’s Little
Brown Jug racing program at the Delaware, Ohio County Fair. Real
Desire will
race in the $105,550 Magical Mike Pace and Chip Chip Hooray will
face eight
rivals in the $122,310 Old Oaken Bucket. Post time for Thursday’s
18-race
card will be 11 a.m..
Brittany Farms, Robert Burgess, Perretti Farms
and Karen Olssonburgess’
Real Desire comes into Thursday’s Magical Mike with eight
victories in 10
starts this season including wins in the $566,000 Canadian Pacing
Derby,
$400,000 U.S. Pacing Championship and the $500,000 Breeders Crown.
The son of
Life Sign, bred by Fair Island Farm, has victories this season in
1:48.2,
1:48.3, 1:49.4 and 1:50-flat. He has a lifetime bankroll of
$3,078,958. The
4-year-old, who finished second in last year’s Little Brown
Jug, is trained
by Blair Burgess and will be driven by John Campbell.
Real Desire will face some tough competition in
Haughton Memorial winner
Four Starzz Shark ($1,135,107-1:49.3) and Dan Patch victor
Camotion
($1,709,672-1:48.3).
Chip Chip Hooray has dropped three in a row
since winning the
Hambletonian on August 3 at The Meadowlands. He won an elim of the
Yonkers
Trot but finished fourth to Bubba Dunn in the Final. He then
finished third
in two heats of the World Trotting Derby. The smallish son of Pine
Chip is
owned by trainer Chuck Sylvester, Mike Prakas, Wingedfoot Farms
and Neal
Golden. Eric Ledford will again be in the sulky. Chip Chip Hooray
has won
three of nine outings in 2002 and shows career winnings of
$1,039,962 and a
lifetime record of 1:53.3. Challengers will include Hand Glider,
Rich Rewards
and Malabar Motion.
Lachance, Brennan Replace Case On Jug Assignments
Mike Lachance and George Brennan have replaced
Walter Case on three Jug
horses. Case was taken off all of his drives today and Thursday
after he
failed to show Sunday through Tuesday. He had been listed to drive
12 horses
on today’s card. Lachance will drive New York Matts in the
first elimination
and Western Resolve in the second. Lachance had already gotten the
sulky
assignment with 2-1 third elimination favorite Art Major. Brennan
will drive
Fancy Schmansy in third elimination. Brennan also had drives with
Life Is A
Cabaret in the first elim and Equinox Hanover in third.
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