By Tom White
9/16/04

Delaware, OH--A short but quality group of pacing mares will battle in Sunday's $23,100 My Lady Pace, the opening day feature at the Delaware County Fair. Heading the list of five mares is $715,359 lifetime winner Cinder Best and 2004 Scarlet & Gray champion CC Spice.

The Fourth My Lady Pace honors Mrs. Ann Mossbarger of Bloomingburg, OH., mistress of Midland Acres.

Post time Sunday is 12-noon. Racing Secretary Peter Koch carded 22 races for opening day including two divisions of the $56,565 three-year-old filly trot.

Entries for the 35th Jugette three-year-old filly pace will be drawn Friday morning and entries for the 59th Little Brown Jug will be taken Saturday morning.

Thomas Gerdeman's 7-year-old mare Cinder Best comes into the My Lady Pace with 40 career victories, 21 coming in 2004. The Seldon Ledford-trained mare took her lifetime mark of 1:50 earlier this year at Balmoral Park and the Cambest mare captured the $66,000 Fairy God Mother Stake on July 3 at Maywood Park.

Chuck Campbell's CC Spice, a four-year-old In The Pocket mare, has 30 career firsts and winnings of $563,025. Trained by Robert Harmon, CC's Spice has 17 on-the-board finishes this season.

Rounding out the field is Alan Keith's Siren (1:52.1, $103,964); Darby's Edge Stable, Joseph Scala, Jr. and Ed Mullinax' Nells Bells (1:54.1, $140,346); and Melissa Levan's Sheer Sahbra (1:55.3, $64,487).

John Campbell To Wear Logo at Delaware

Hall of Fame driver John Campbell will wear a logo for Youbet.com on his silks as he drives in the Little Brown jug and other Grand Circuit races during the Delaware County Fair.

Campbell, who has 123 Delaware victories, will also sign autographs at 11 o'clock in the Log Cabin on the backstretch of the Fairgrounds. Tee shirts with logos of Campbell, Youbet and the Delaware County Fair, will be on sale.