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Action Uncle, the Ohio Three-Year-Old Trotting Colt of the Year, has been named the 2020 Ohio Horse of the Year. Action Uncle, the son of Uncle Peter out of Action Broadway, won nine out of 10 races in 2020 earning $351,960 for trainer Virgil Morgan Jr. and owners Carl Howard, Joyce McClelland, and Larry Wills. In 2020, Action Uncle set a world record, winning the Ohio Breeders Championship at the Delaware County Fairgrounds in 1:52.4. The victory completed the Ohio Triple Crown for Action Uncle as he won the Ohio Sires Stakes and the Ohio Fair Stake earlier in the year. Morgan said Action Uncle is a classy horse. “He just loves to do his work. I knew from an early point as a two-year-old that he had extreme talent. I knew he was something special, but I am a little biased because I trained his mother.” ....
Action Uncle picked up in 2020 where he left off in 2019, winning nine races on the way to being named the Ohio Harness Horsemen s Association s Three-Year-Old Trotting Colt of the Year. Action Uncle, the son of Uncle Peter out of Action Broadway, started 10 times in 2020, winning nine and finishing second once. He earned $351,960 for trainer Virgil Morgan Jr. and owners Carl Howard, Joyce McClelland and Larry Wills. In 16 career starts, Action Uncle has 12 wins, three second-place finishes and one third-place finish and has earned $577,535. It is the second straight year that Action Uncle has won a Trotter of the Year award. Last year, he was named Ohio s Two-Year-Old Trotting Colt of the Year. ....
Summer Touch made sure there was no doubt who the top Two-Year-Old pacing filly in Ohio was, as she set a world record and won the Ohio Triple Crown on the way to being named the 2020 Ohio Two-Year-Old Pacing Filly of the Year. Summer Touch, the daughter of Well Said out of Real Touch finished second in her first start and then won her next six races for trainer Ron Burke and owned by Burke Racing Stable, Knox Services, Slaughter Racing Stable and Weaver Bruscemi LLC, earning $285,550. Summer Touch is an Ohio Triple Crown Winner, winning the $300,000 Ohio Sire Stakes final, the Ohio Fair Stakes, and the Ohio Breeders Championship. She set a world record at MGM Northfield Park in the fourth leg of the Ohio Sire Stakes, covering the half mile track in 1:51.4. ....