From the moment Ella Johansson saw him, there was a connection. The colt’s name was Captain Bean and Ella spotted him as soon as she and her parents, harness racing trainer Nancy and driver Marcus, arrived in Harrisburg to look at yearlings the day before the 2017 Standardbred Horse Sale. Ella, who accompanied her parents only because it seemed a better option to sitting at her brother’s baseball tournament, implored her mother to buy him. And a year later, her enthusiasm for the colt, now known as Captain Crunch, is undiminished. Captain Crunch’s next start is Saturday at the Meadowlands in the sole $20,000 elimination for the Governor’s Cup, which is one of the Fall Final Four stakes for 2-year-olds at the Big M.