by Karen Briggs, WEG Media

Campbellville, ON — She’s Canadian-owned, but Hambletonian Oaks winner Creamy Mimi has never set foot on a Canadian track — until Thursday night, September 4, when she’ll go postward in the C$134,926 Simcoe Stakes at Mohawk.

The daughter of Conway Hall-Cream Puff has been unstoppable this summer, chalking up three victories in a row, including the Oaks elimination and final, and a New York Sires Stakes. She was also triumphant in the $324,694 Hudson Filly Stakes at Yonkers Raceway, and altogether has six victories, a second and a third — and $648,761 — to show for her sophomore season.

Trond Smedshammer trains Creamy Mimi for Marvin Katz and Al Libfeld and will be in the driver’s seat Thursday night.

The stage is now set for a classic match-up, between ‘Mimi’ and the equally impressive Bella Dolce, who is riding a six-race unbeaten streak and has consistently crushed her competition this summer at Mohawk for trainer Kevin O’Reilly and owner/breeder David McDuffee. The fillies, who are cousins (Bella Dolce’s dam Pizza Dolce is a half-sister to Cream Puff), will be going head-to-head for the first time Thursday in race three, post time 8:08 p.m. (EDT).

The second of the two Simcoe divisions (race seven, post time 9:24 p.m.) is much more wide open, with Harald Lunde’s pupil Prada Hall the morning line favorite. Though she has a history of making a good showing in eliminations and then self-destructing in the final, this daughter of Andover Hall seems primed to redeem herself and has been rated at 5-2.

Also entered in the second split is Feels Like Magic, a stablemate of Bella Dolce’s. Trainer O’Reilly says the daughter of Kadabra has plenty of speed but has yet to fulfill her potential; the Simcoe Stakes may be her perfect chance.

Catch the sophomore trotting lasses in the Simcoe Stakes Thursday night, the lead-up to another amazing weekend of stakes racing at Mohawk.