Hightstown, NJ — Whether winning races on the track, or winning hearts around the barn, Rose Run Vision is something to behold.
An 8-year-old female pacer, Rose Run Vision has posted 41 victories in her career and banked nearly $600,000 in purses for owner Eash Racing Stable. Her most recent triumph came last week in the Open Handicap for fillies and mares at Miami Valley Raceway, where she overcame her unfavorable post-eight starting spot at odds of 29-1.
The mare has spent most of her career competing in Indiana for owner/trainer Don Eash, who purchased Rose Run Vision for $18,000 at the 2018 Hoosier Classic Yearling Sale. She has spent this winter racing for trainer Susan Miller and driver LeWayne Miller in Ohio, where since the beginning of the year she has hit the board in seven of nine starts, with three victories and $75,195 in earnings.
“When Don went to Florida, he asked us to take her on,” Susan Miller said. “She was ready made. She had close to $500,000 already, so she was obviously a very nice mare. She’s been racing very well for us. We’re very happy with her.
“She is wonderful to be around. She’s perfect, on and off the track. She’s perfect to train, doesn’t do anything wrong in the barn. She knows what she’s doing. I can’t say a bad thing about her. She’s pretty much a perfect mare all around.”
Eash agreed with Miller’s assessment of his mare.
“She’s a nice, honest, easygoing mare,” he said. “She’s about as nice as they come. She’s good in the barn, good-mannered and pleasant to be around. You can’t really fault her about anything.”
Rose Run Vision is a daughter of Time To Roll-A And Gs Finest. Her mom, a full sister to Dan Patch and O’Brien awards winner A And G’sconfusion, has produced six six-figure earners from eight foals, including Rose Run Toni, who was an Indiana Sired Fair Circuit champion for Eash as a 2-year-old in 2017.
“She was a good filly for me, so that’s the reason I wanted this one,” Eash said about buying Rose Run Vision. “She’s been good right from the beginning. I didn’t know if she would turn into an open mare, but I knew she would be a good racehorse right from the beginning.”
Rose Run Vision, the richest of A And Gs Finest’s foals, has hit the board in 99 of 187 lifetime races and earned a paycheck in nearly 75 percent of her starts.
“She’s durable, easy to drive, perfectly gaited, and she knows how to race,” Eash said. “She can be a little lazy, actually, but when you put her nose on the gate, she just swells up and she’s ready to go. She’s all business after that. She will always give you a chance.”
Rose Run Vision will return to business Thursday in the $36,000 F&M Open Handicap at Miami Valley Raceway. Once again, she will leave from post eight. She is 15-1 on the morning line despite her first-up rally from fifth at the halfway point last week, when she scored by a length in 1:53.
“She really came on hard (last week),” Susan Miller said. “It’s the same position this week, but she’s a very versatile mare, and LeWayne has been wonderful with her.”
Eash hopes to race Rose Run Vision at Miami Valley until the end of the meet on May 3, then bring the mare back to Indiana to compete at Harrah’s Hoosier Park.
“She has excellent gate speed, and she’s handy on that smaller track,” Eash said, referring to the five-eighths-mile oval at Miami Valley. “She can get around it just as good as the big track. I think that works to her advantage.”
At some point, Rose Run Vision will transition to her next career as a mom, but the mare has shown no indications that she’s ready to leave her racing life yet.
“You hate to stop when she’s on a roll,” Eash said. “As long as she is racing good, we’ll probably wait another year or so. The whole family has been good, so I think she will be a good broodmare when she’s ready.”
Action begins at 4 p.m. (EDT) at Miami Valley, with the F&M Open Handicap scheduled for 7:18 p.m. as race 10. For Thursday’s complete entries, click here.