Grove City, OH – Crocodile Station is looking to stake his claim to an Ohio Triple Crown-winning season on Saturday (Sept. 27) as Hollywood Gaming at Dayton Raceway hosts the 2025 Ohio Sires Stakes Scarlet Championships for pacers.
Saturday’s 14-race card features purses totaling $3.65 million and includes eight divisions of the OSS Scarlet Championships and four Dayton Oaks Derby Grand Circuit races with two consolations. The divisions of the Scarlet Championships for freshman and sophomore filly pacers and freshman male pacers have purses of $300,000 each, with the division for sophomore male pacers going for $400,000.
First-race post time is 6:30 p.m.
Freshman pacer Crocodile Station (Ronnie Wrenn Jr.) is seeking to secure the 2025 Ohio Triple Crown after scoring wins in each of the first two legs in the Ohio State Fair Stakes at Eldorado Scioto Downs and the Ohio Breeders Championship at Delaware in 1:52.3 and a lifetime-best 1:52, respectively. The Downbytheseaside gelding out of Camera Lady was a two-time winner in the OSS this season and closed the series in fourth place in the standings with 130 points. Trained by Michael Hitchcock, he has $129,232 in earnings and will leave from post four.
Pet Project (Trevor Smith), I’llbetyourboots (Yannick Gingras), and Lindy Dragonwater (Chris Page) each posted three OSS wins this year and finished as the top three in the freshman male pace standings with 175, 168, and 153 points, respectively. Pet Project and Lindy Dragonwater were both winners in the OSFS. Trained by Kim Dailey, Pet Project has a lifetime best of 1:51.2. The Pet Rock gelding posted wins in the second, third, and fourth legs of the OSS and has $113,700 in earnings. He will leave from post six. A winner in the Next Generation at Scioto, I’llbetyourboots recorded victories in the first, second, and fifth legs of the OSS, the last of which came in a lifetime-best 1:51.4. The Summa Cum Laude gelding is trained by Ron Burke and has six wins in nine seasonal starts with earnings of $163,860. He will leave from post five. Leaving from post three is Lindy Dragonwater, a Downbytheseaside gelding trained by Burke. He scored wins in the first, fourth, and fifth legs of the OSS, posting a lifetime-best 1:51 in the fourth leg. He has $140,680 in earnings.
She’safirewoman (Luke Hanners) highlights the freshman filly pace field after going a perfect 5-for-5 in the OSS this season, including posting a lifetime-best 1:51.4 in the second leg. The Catch The Fire filly, trained by Mark Winters, has hit the board in all nine seasonal starts, with eight wins and one second to go with $171,576 in earnings. She is atop the OSS freshman filly pace standings with 255 points and will leave from post seven.
A pair of two-time OSS winners this season, Burke trainees Shacarri (Page) and Seaside Shuffle (Wrenn Jr.), finished second and third in the standings with 130 and 102 points, respectively. Summa Cum Laude filly Shacarri has hit the board in six of eight seasonal starts, with four wins and $184,325 in earnings, and will leave from post four. Seaside Shuffle will leave from the rail. A Downbytheseaside filly, she has hit the board in seven of eight starts this season, with three wins and earnings of $163,062.
Virgil Morgan Jr. stablemates Odds On Chesapeake (Dexter Dunn) and Odds On Hialeah (Hanners) highlight the field of sophomore filly pacers as the top two in the standings with 230 and 205 points, respectively.
Odds On Chesapeake was 4-for-5 in the OSS this season with her only blemish coming as a runner-up to Odds On Hialeah in the fourth leg. Her lifetime best of 1:49.3 came in a Jugette elimination race at Delaware on Sept. 17, and she finished second in the Jugette final. She has hit the board in 11 of 12 seasonal starts, with nine wins, and has 13 lifetime victories and earnings of $503,500. She will leave from post four.
Odds On Hialeah will leave from the far outside and is looking to repeat as OSS champion after winning the title as a 2-year-old in 2024. The Lather Up filly posted three OSS wins this season, recording a lifetime-best 1:50.3 in the first leg. She has hit the board in 15 of 17 lifetime starts with $540,056 in earnings.
Rose Run Aimee (Wrenn Jr.), who was third in the standings with 125 points, will leave from post seven. Trained by James Ehrsam, the Racing Hill filly has hit the board in 10 of 12 seasonal starts with five wins and has $138,746 in lifetime earnings.
Burke stablemates Rick Wink (Page), Fear The Hate (David Miller), Harrisburg Heist (Todd McCarthy), Sippinonsearoc (Gingras), and Swingtown (Wrenn Jr.) highlight the field of sophomore male pacers as the top five in the standings.
Bit Of A Legend N colt Rick Wink was a three-time winner in the OSS this year and led the standings with 166 points. Leaving from post three, he has five wins in 11 seasonal starts and has hit the board in 18 of 20 lifetime starts, with 13 victories and $589,970 in earnings.
Fear The Hate was second in the standings with 115 points and will leave from post seven. A two-time winner in the OSS this season, the Fear The Dragon colt has eight wins in 15 career starts with $143,050 in earnings.
Harrisburg Heist, Sippinonsearoc, and Swingtown finished in a three-way tie for third in the standings with 77 points each. Downbytheseaside colt Sippinonsearoc won the OSS title as a 2-year-old in 2024 and has 12 career wins and $1.01 million in earnings. He will leave from post two. Fellow Downbytheseaside colt Swingtown will leave from post nine. He has 10 wins and $827,094 in earnings in 23 lifetime starts. Harrisburg Heist, a Downbytheseaside gelding, has hit the board in 12 of 15 seasonal starts, with eight wins. He has $283,777 in lifetime earnings and will leave from post eight.
The Ohio Harness Horsemen’s Association will provide live-streaming coverage of the OSS Scarlet Championships as part of its “Saturday Night at the Races” program on the OHHA YouTube channel and Facebook page as well as HarnessRacingOhio.com.