Grove City, OH – The Ohio Fairs Championship will wrap up stakes season for the Buckeye State on Saturday (Oct. 11) as MGM Northfield Park hosts eight $50,000 divisions of freshman and sophomore trotters and pacers.
Spend The Prize (Dan Noble) headlines the four divisions of trotters as the top point-earner this season. The Rosy Weaver trainee sits atop the OFC sophomore colt trot standings with 753.5 points and opened as the slight morning-line favorite in her race on Saturday at 5-2. The Enterprise gelding has 15 wins and earnings of $61,879 in 21 seasonal starts and drew the seventh post position in the eight-horse field. He owns a lifetime mark of 1:56.1. Full Moon Howl (Jason Beattie), who is second in the standings with 548.5 points, is the 3-1 second choice and will leave from post four. Trained by Jessica Smith, the Full Count gelding has 12 wins in 21 starts this season with earnings of $53,174. His lifetime best is 1:56.1. Sitting third in the standings, Silverton (Emanuel Miller) will leave from post two.
Eckert Hill Brady (Ronnie Wrenn Jr.) is the 6-5 morning-line favorite in the freshman male trot division. The divisional leader in the OFC standings with 434 points, the Weaver-trained In Range gelding has hit the board in 13 of 15 seasonal starts with nine victories and earnings of $62,289. He owns a lifetime mark of 2:01.2 and is coming off a third-place finish in the Buckeye Stallion Series finals. He will leave from post five alongside 5-2 second choice Dublins Sidney (Noble) in post four. Dublins Sidney is a What The Hill colt trained by Brian Georges. He has four wins and six seconds with $30,188 in earnings in 14 starts on the year. Eighth in the OFC standings, he has a lifetime best of 1:57. The second- and third-place horses in the standings, Mogul Maverick (Miller) and Mj’s Pegs Prodigy (Charles Bolen), will leave from post seven and one, respectively.
In the sophomore filly trot division, Countonluna, driven by trainer Daren Harvey, is the 5-2 morning-line favorite. The Full Count filly has eight wins in 18 starts this year with earnings of $30,908. She has won four of her past five starts and owns a lifetime best of 1:58.3. She is seventh in the OFC standings and will leave from post four. I Bee Cream (Wrenn Jr.), the 3-1 second choice, has 10 wins in 23 seasonal starts with $43,281 in earnings. The De La Creme filly has a lifetime best of 1:56.3. Trained by Charles Vigneron, she enters Saturday having won four of her past six starts and is fourth in the standings. The top three in the standings – Dublins Martini (Braiden Rhoades), Susnritz (Miller), and Strike A Pose (Luke Hanners) – drew posts three, eight, and one, respectively.
Trained and driven by Hank LeVan, Hangtighthoney L is the 8-5 morning-line favorite in the division for freshman filly trotters and will leave from the rail. The In Range filly is coming off a sixth-place finish in the BSS finals and has hit the board in 14 of 17 starts in 2025 with 10 wins and $57,699 in earnings. Fourth in the OFC standings, she owns a lifetime mark of 1:58.1. Lynn Range (Miller), the 2-1 second choice, drew post position six. A winner in five of her past six starts, the In Range filly is trained by Herman Hagerman. She is sixth in the standings and has nine wins and one second with $34,033 in earnings in 12 starts this year. Her lifetime best is 1:59.2. The top three horses in the standings – Supreme Dance (Wrenn Jr.), Jasmines Diamond (Justin Irvine), and Tango L (Louis LeVan) – will leave from post four, two, and seven, respectively.
Saturday’s Ohio Fairs Championship races are part of a 15-race card at Northfield that also features the Grade 3 $125,000 Courageous Lady and a pair of Lady Drivers Tour paces.
First-race post time is 6 p.m.
The Ohio Harness Horsemen’s Association (OHHA) will livestream the Ohio Fairs Championship as part of its “Saturday Night at the Races” program presented by The Ohio State University Veterinary Medical Center and sponsored by Dublin Valley Farms, Hickory Lane Farm, Midland Acres, and North American Standardbred Sale. Coverage of the eight finals will begin at 6:15 p.m. on the OHHA YouTube channel and Facebook page as well as HarnessRacingOhio.com.