Lexington, KY – Some may consider Mondays a slow day of racing, but not this Monday (Aug. 25) at The Red Mile. The sport’s top-ranked horse, Miki And Minnie, is back in Lexington and so is harness racing’s fifth-ranked horse, Super Chapter, to compete in their respective $80,000 third-round legs of the Kentucky Championship Series for sophomore filly pacers and 3-year-old male trotters.
Dan Patch Award winner and Kentucky champion Miki And Minnie makes her first foray to Lexington in 2025 fresh off her long-awaited meeting with Canada’s 2024 Horse of the Year, Chantilly, in the $250,000 Grade 1 James M. Lynch Memorial at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. She will be seeking her sixth consecutive win this season, and her 11th in 12 races since winning a Breeders Crown in October.
Trained by Chris Ryder, Miki And Minnie will start from post position five in the field of five and is 4-5 on the morning line in the 10th race. The filly will be guided by Dexter Dunn and is 9-8-1-0 this season. Her only loss was by a head to Rodeo Drive Deo in a Pennsylvania Sire Stakes event in June.
The daughter of Always B Miki-That’s The Ticket has never missed the board in all 20 of her career races and has banked $1.35 million.
Her victories include last year’s Breeders Crown and Three Diamonds. This year, Miki And Minnie also has trophies from the Fan Hanover, Jerry Silverman Memorial and Shady Daisy.
Miki And Minnie competes as a homebred for Craig Henderson, Robert Mondillo and Lawrence Minowitz.
The waters may not be quite as deep this week for the champion, but she will have to face old rival and world champion Looksgoodinloulou. The two fillies battled last year in the sire stakes over the red clay and at The Meadowlands in their pursuit of a Breeders Crown.
Looksgoodinloulou will have the services of Yannick Gingras for trainer Ron Burke. The daughter of Sweet Lou-Looksgoodinaromper is 5-2 on the morning line and will begin pacing from post position two.
The filly enters this contest off a 1:48.4 score in the second leg of this series last week but was fourth behind Miki And Minnie in the Silverman the only time they met this year.
Looksgoodinloulou has a career record of 14-7-3-0 and has earned $384,087.
She is owned by Burke Racing Stable, Weaver Bruscemi, Larry Karr and Phillip Collura. She was bred by Burke Racing Stable and Weaver Bruscemi.
Kentucky champion Super Chapter makes his appearance in the sixth race. The son of Chapter Seven-Lifetime Pursuit will have Dunn as his pilot for trainer Marcus Melander. The colt, fresh off his Grade 2 Earl Beal Jr. Memorial victory, is 4-5 on the morning line in the field of seven.
Leading all the sport with a bankroll of $698,505, Super Chapter’s only defeat in seven starts this season is at the hooves of Nordic Catcher S in the $1 million Grade 1 Hambletonian after being locked in down the lane.
He enters this event off a 1:50 world record in the Beal, where he defeated the extremely talented Emoticon Legacy by a nose.
Prior to his lone loss, the colt defeated Dan Patch Award winner and stablemate Maryland in a division of the Empire Breeders Classic, captured the Grade 2 Yonkers Trot and was extremely impressive in a division of the Grade 3 Stanley Dancer Memorial.
Bred by Hanover Shoe Farms, Super Chapter is owned by Jeffrey Snyder, Arthur Pronti and his breeder. His dam is the 2014 Hambletonian Oaks winner.
Super Chapter will face some stiff opposition from second selection Go Dog Go. Todd McCarthy will be in the sulky for trainer Carter Pinske when the pair leave from the rail. They are 3-1 on the morning line.
The son of Greenshoe-Primary Target brings his own credentials to this event, with Super Chapter being a familiar foe.
This year, Go Dog Go opened his campaign with wins in a leg of the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes, a division of the Reynolds Stakes and the second division of the Stanley Dancer in a lifetime-best 1:50.4.
The colt was third in his Hambletonian elimination to Nordic Catcher S and was eighth in the final after a rough trip with drawing post position 10.
Go Dog Go won a qualifier in Lexington on Aug. 17 in 1:53.4 and it appears all systems are “go” for the colt’s return after the Hambletonian.
Owned by Wiesman Farms and Al Libfeld, Go Dog Go was also bred by Wiesman Farms.
The colt possesses a career resume of 15-5-2-3 and has earned $430,218.