Southwind Tempo Heads $300,000 Jugette Filly Pace

DELAWARE, OH--Fourteen three-year-old fillies, headed by World Champion
Southwind Tempo, will compete in the $300,000 Jugette Pace Wednesday afternoon,
September 19 at the Delaware, Ohio County Fair. 

There will be two $48,000 eliminations with the top four finishers returning
for a $144,000 Final.  If no filly has won two heats, the three heat winners
will return for a raceoff.  The winner of the raceoff receives $60,000 winner

take all.  If a third heat is not needed, the winner of the second heat gets

the $60,000.

Southwind Tempo comes into the 37th Jugette with 14 victories in 17 starts t
his season and career earnings of $793,854.  Trainer Steve Elliott, who also
trained Hambletonian champion Donato Hanover, decided earlier this week to enter
his filly in the Jugette instead of going against the colts in the Little
Brown Jug.

“It was the right thing to do.  Going two or three heats against the boys
just didn’t seem logical,” said Elliott.

Southwind Tempo, the morning line favorite at odds of 8/5,  will race from
post position four in the first elimination heat with driver Tim Tetrick.  My
stical Dreamer, who was second in last week’s Nadia Lobell Stake at The Red Mile,
is the second choice at odds of 4-1.  Mystical Dreamer will start from post
seven.

The second elimination is wide open.  Isabella Blue Chip, the 2006 juvenile
filly champion, is a slight favorite at odds of 5/2.  Next are Current Hanover
(7/2), Western Graduate (4-1), Me And My Baby (9-2) and Elusive Prey (5-1).

Isabella Blue Chip raced from June to December as a two-year-old, winning
eight times and earning $658,583.  “We decided to give her a long rest and
didn’t start back with her until July,” said trainer George Teague.  “Then she
developed some foot problems and we had to back off again with her.  She was two
months behind the other fillies this year. She won her first qualifier on July
19th.” 

Isabella Blue Chip won a New York Sires Stakes in her last start
on September 5th “and she seemed more like her old self.  I think she’s
getting close to Southwind Tempo, but being close to that great filly doesn’t cut
it,” said Teague.  David Miller will drive Isabella Blue Chip in the Jugette.

Current Hanover comes into the Jugette off a second place finish in the Nadia
Lobell; Western Graduate won a division of the Adioo Volo; Me And My Baby was
second in the Fan Hanover Final and fourth in the Nadia Lobell; and Elusive
Prey finished third and fifth in a pair of Open handicaps at Chester.


    $300,000   Jugette 3-Year-Old Filly Pace

            $48,000 First Elimination

Post        Filly                   Driver                        Odds
1       Appleoosa Hanover   Jody Jamieson       6-1
2       Liberty Skiberty        David Miller             10-1 
3       Checkouttheview     Paul MacDonnel          12-1
4       Southwind Tempo     Tim Tetrick                   8/5 
5       Before Dawn         Tony Hall                    10-1
6       Fiery Buckeye       Dave Palone                 8-1
7       Mystical Dreamer        Greg Grismore              4-1

            $48,000 Second Elimination

1       Elusive Prey            George Brennan      5-1
2       Current Hanover     Ron Pierce                   7/2
3       Isabella Blue Chip      David Miller                  5/2
4       Me And My Baby      Dave Palone            9/2 
5       Western Graduate        Yannick Gingras         4-1
6       Omen Hanover        Brian Sears          8-1
7       Get A Cab           David Miller            8-1

            $144,000 Final Heat
           
(If needed Winner Takes All: $60,000)