Upper Sandusky, OH — The two-day 2019 fair meet concluded at the Wyandot County (Ohio) Fair on Thursday (Sept. 12) with a very competitive card of 10 races.

Easter Lilly and Cam McCown scored in 2:02.4 to take the $9,166 OFRC 3-year-old filly trot. Thom Pye photo.

The $9,166 OFRC 3-year-old filly trot began the excitement with an eyeball-to-eyeball battle up the backside between Urban Buzz (Art McIlmurray) and Easter Lilly (Cam McCown) on the outside before Easter Lilly left them wilting as the daughter of Cayenne Turbo trotted off by four lengths in 2:02.4 for a new lifetime tab for trainer/lessee Jessica McCown. C’s Fire with Tyler Rush was second as Bad Babysitter (Luke Ebersole) secured the show spot.

High On Paydaze with Jeff Nisonger in the stirrups opened up by 16 lengths coming around the last turn as the crowd let out a very audible reaction. The 3-year-old colt by Nob Hill High, trained by Brian Brown for owners Scott Hagemeyer, Robert Mondillo, and Donald Robinson, stopped the timer in 1:56.1, a tick off the all-time track record, and earned his first win in 2019, pushing his career earnings past the $230,000 mark.

Another Brian Brown student, Dig Danny Dig (by McArdle) with Beau Brown aboard, took the OFRC 2-year-old colt pace in 2:02 by 2-1/4 lengths over Pet My Rock (Jeff Nisonger) and Despot (Luke Ebersole) for owner Jennifer Brown.

The track pacing record teetered again in the $3,800 Signature Series Pace when Dirty Steve, Matt Rowe’s 5-year-old gelding by Feelin Friskie, hit the finish line first. With teamster Jeff Nisonger, the winner held off Mystical Rock (Cam McCown) and Cody Greeno with American Schnapps in 1:56.3 by 1-1/4 lengths.

The very next OFRC 3-year-old colt pace had the fans cheering when another epic stretch battle emerged when Mr. Kim Haver’s Friday Night Blues — who had just set the track record of 1:55.4 at Richwood Independent Fair — and Cam McCown came off Jeff Nisonger’s helmet and posted a last panel of :28.4 to nip Rockette Baby by a head in 1:56.4 for his fourth win in a row. Jessica McCown trains the Pet Rock gelding. Excavator (Beau Brown) was third.

Leading fair driver Jeff Nisonger would earn the third of his four wins on the evening with Here’s To Us Stable’s Big Bad John 2-year-old Johnny Rockette. The Ron Steck-trained gelding won by 3-3/4 length over race favorite Pacer Racer (Cam McCown) in 1:58 as Medoland Bosa took third.