by Leon Zimmerman, for the New Jersey Sire Stakes

Trenton, NJ — The $100,000 New Jersey Sire Stakes Championship Final for 3-year-old trotting fillies at Freehold Raceway on Thursday (Sept. 10) will feature a competitive field that includes four winners of preliminary legs of the series.

Caviart Annie, a daughter of Revenue S bred by Perretti Farms in Cream Ridge, N.J., heads the field with a 1:57.1 victory in one preliminary leg. She has won six of 11 races this year for trainer Greg Peck, who co-owns her with the TLP Stables, Jerry Silva and Patricia Bolte.

In her NJSS preliminary leg victory last week, Caviart Annie got even for a defeat by Susquehanna Belle (Windsong’s Legacy) in a previous preliminary leg. John Wagner, who co-owns the filly with Syl King, Jr. and Terry Kibler, trains Susquehanna Belle, one of three preliminary leg winners with 1:58 clockings. She is also the leading purse earner in the field with $54,842 this year and $84,128 for her career.

The other preliminary leg winners with 1:58 victories are So You De Vie and Littlemscantbwrong, both daughters of Yankee Glide. Oyvind Hegdal trains So You De Vie for the Joie De Vie Stable, while Per Henriksen trains Littlemscantbwrong for co-owners John Morritt, Asa Farm and Stan Klemencic.

Also in the field are two second-place finishers of preliminary legs, Lady In The Wind (Windsong’s Legacy) and RS Giggles (Revenue S), third-place finisher Possess Me (Self Possessed) and a fourth-place finisher, Grand Cameron (Yankee Glide).

Lady In The Wind also finished third as the favorite in the $80,000 Helen Smith Trot for NJ-sired 3-year-old fillies on August 21. She has been in the money eight of 10 times this year, with two wins, four seconds and two thirds.