The Red Mile will host the finals of The Kentucky Sire Stakes Championship events on Sunday, Sept. 17 with a blockbuster 10-race program featuring $3.4 million in purse money, including eight $400,000 finals bookended by a pair of $100,000 Kentucky Commonwealth Series finals.
Trained by Linda Toscano, Odds On Hail Mary ($7.80) stalked a fast early pace before unleashing an explosive kick late in a 1:48.2 mile, breaking the world record for three-year-old pacing fillies on a five-eighths-mile track, in her $252,000 Pennsylvania Sire Stakes (PASS) divisional championship on Sunday, Sept. 3 at Harrah's Philadelphia.
Kentucky champion French Wine outfooted Hambletonian victor Tactical Approach at odds of 28-1 in his respective division and Better Is Nice demonstrated the same blazing speed as the favourite in his $80,000 Kentucky Sire Stakes leg at The Red Mile.
Harness racing driver Scott Zeron is only 34, but he already has two wins in the $1 million Hambletonian Stakes to his credit. On Saturday at the Meadowlands Racetrack, he will try to add a third. Zeron, who won the Hambletonian in 2016 with Marion Marauder and 2018 with the filly Atlanta, would join elite