Grove city, oh – Ronnie Gillespie was emotional when he was interviewed in the Circle of the Harness Racing Winner in Hollywood Gaming on Dayton Raceway on Saturday (September 27). The trainer and director of Big Ranger (In reach) had just won the 2025 Ohio Sires Stakes Scarlet Championship for first -year Colt trotters and completed a triple crown -winning season in Ohio.
“I am a bit emotional because I defeated the opportunities as a trainer and driver,” said Gillespie. “To have a horse so good at the start of the season and to keep it until the end of the season, a lot of work takes a lot of work.”
Four horses came in on Saturday and wanted to complete the Ohio Triple Crown, but Big Ranger was the only one who achieved the performance. A perfect 7-out-7 on the season with $ 370,610 in income, the In reach This season, Colt won the next generation and three legs of the Oss in addition to scoring victories in each of the first two legs of the Triple Crown in the Ohio State Fair Stakes in Eldorado Scioto Downs and the Ohio Breeders Championship in Delaware. The last part of that Triple Crown -Puzzle was the Oss Scarlet championships on Saturday, and he led Wire to Wire on his way to winning with more than eight lengths in 1: 53.4 for owner Madison Global.
That meant a lifelong best and set new track and inspirations when Gillespie claimed his first OSS championship as a trainer. Rose Run Banker (Chris Page) was second followed by Max The Mighty (Andrew McCarthy) in third place.
Big Ranger Replay
That was one of the four $ 300,000 trampling divisions of the Oss Scarlet Championships on Dayton Raceway on Saturday.
Jailhouse Pearl (Austin Hanners) registered the fastest miles among those four divisions and won the second Filly Trot Championship in a lifelong-best 1: 52.2, in which new track and stakes records were located. It was the first career to win Oss Scarlet championships for Hanners. Aunt Laura (Dexter Dunn), the Oss champion of 2024 as a 2-year-old, led the field along the first three calls in: 26.4 ,: 55 and 1: 23.1. On the outside of the aunt Laura, Jailhouse Pearl ran for half a length of the last part and won two lengths over Pelican Hanover (Brett Miller) in second place with Mega Money (Aaron Merriman) in third place. Mocha Hill (page), fighting to complete the Triple Crown, became fourth.
Jailhouse Pearl Replay
“This was a great way to start the night,” said Hanners after the race. “That Merrieveeulen has been great for me all year round. The pace was so fast, and when they returned to me, I thought:” I’m just going to go now “, and she did the rest. She made efforts all year round, so I expected that when she cleaned up.”
Trained by Eric Nesselroad for owner Casey Clemens, Jailhouse Pearl arrived on Saturday with two OSS victories on the season, as a result of which the board in 12 of 14 starts with five wins in general. The long Tom Filly has hit the board in 27 of 29 lifetime with 15 wins and $ 372,694 in win.
Lt Loverboy (Miller), the 2-year-old Colt Trotter of the Year and Oss Champion, scored a repeated title. De Lange Tom Velding won the second Colt Trot Championship in 1: 53.2 this year, equal to the track record. Trained by Daren Harvey, he came this season with victories in three of the five legs of the Oss and now has the board in 18 of 21 lifetime starts with 11 wins and $ 619,734 in income. Back in the peloton when the leader crossed the quarterly pole in: 26.2 and halfway in: 55.3, Lt Loverboy went on the field on the outside and led by a nose to the three -quarters in 1:24. He then pulled himself away to win three lengths about Vekna (Kayne Kauffman) with jet wings (Dunn) in third place.
LT Loverboy Replay
“He’s just a class horse,” said Harvey after the LT Loverboy race. “We fought him all year round and tried to keep him together for tonight, and we came here and he did not disappoint.”
Owned by Wayne Mast Jr. and Callam Racing, LT Loverboy has put together a solid performance after departure from post eight.
“It’s a great feeling, and this is a great horse,” said Walt Callam, from Callam Racing, of the victory. “All honor in the world goes to Daren and Brett.”
SeyoursightShigh (Dunn) won the first-year Filly Trot Championship in a track record 1: 54.1. In reach Merrieveeulen was in third place when Demonic Niko (Yannick Gingras) led to the quarter post: 28.3 but was the rest of the road in the front, placing groups of: 57.1 and 1: 25.2 on the way to winning more than six lengths about Rose Run Brooke (Ronnie Wrenn Jr.). Looking for the triple crown, Demonic Niko finished third. Trained by Marcus Melander for owners Heights Stable, Mantorp LLC, AMG Stable and Kjellgren Livs AB, SeteyoursightShigh came in on Saturday with two OSS victories during the season. She hit the board in all nine seasonal starts with seven wins and two seconds and has $ 515,000 in income.
Set YoursightShigh Replay
“She is a great mandrow. She does everything all year round,” said Melander. “It has been a long season for her, but she is still going strong.”
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By Wes Mayberry For the Ohio Harness Horsemen’s Association
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