Get Wauseon Labor Day Race Results
Harness Racing Featured Young, Vet Runners; 9-Year-Old Wins 8th
Must Be The Bunny broke his maiden in the first race on Labor Day at the Fulton County Fair, Wauseon, Ohio. Blue Matt Lad took the eighth race.
Eight races for Standardbreds were on the traditional Labor Day card at the 150th Fulton County Fair held on the outskirts of Wauseon, Ohio. The results featured Northwest Ohio's Must Be The Bunny, a two-year-old pacer, breaking his maiden in the day's first race, and veteran Blue Matt Lad of Onsted, Michigan, a lifetime $134,000 earner, winning the eighth and final race of the afternoon in commanding fashion.
Total results for Labor Day were as follows: Race One---One Mile Pace for 2-year-old colts; Purse $2,606---Must Be The Bunny, bay gelding, Perrysburg/Haviland, OH, maiden winner in 2:01.4; King Taylor (2nd), bay gelding,Temperance, MI, lifetime earnings $3,615; Pronk (3rd), bay gelding, Republic, OH, lifetime $5,628.
Race Two---One Mile Trot for 3-year-old colts; Purse $4,457---Pegasus Fury, bay colt, Berkey, OH, winner; lifetime $8,650; My O My Joe (2nd), chestnut gelding, Delta, OH, lifetime $23,181; Sky Flyer, brown gelding, Commerce Twp., MI, lifetime $15,054.
Race Three---One Mile Pace for 2-year-old colts; Purse $2,531---Snow Storm Sam, b g, Deshler/Ridgeville Corners, OH, winner in 1:59.3, lifetime $17,808; Cagey Attack (2nd), b g, Hillsdale, MI, lifetime $4,180; R C Cruiser (3rd), b g, Monroe, MI, lifetime $5,390.
Race Four---One Mile Pace for 3-year-old colts; Purse $2,816---Standing Room, brown g, Monroe, MI, winner in 1:57.1, lifetime $11,310; Promised The Moon (2nd), b g, Carleton, MI, lifetime $5,161; Chateau's Romeo (3rd), gray g, Defiance/Archbold, OH, lifetime $20,238.
Race Five---One Mile Pace for 3-year-old colts; Purse $2,891---Royalton Star, b g, Lyons, OH, winner in 1:54.2, lifetime $41,909; Lover's Concerto (2nd), br g, Monroe, MI, lifetime $70,497; Miracle Sam (3rd), b g, Monroe, MI, lifetime $11,746.
Race Six---One Mile Pace for Non-Winners ($5,000 in 2007), 1st Division; Purse $900---K C C Thunder, 4-year old, b g, Fremont, OH, winner in 1:59.4, lifetime $16,161; Presidential Pride (2nd), 13-year-old, br horse, Wauseon, OH, lifetime $67,112; No No Lucille (3rd), 4-year-old, b mare, Osseo, MI, lifetime $12,304.
Race Seven---One Mile Trot for Maidens, AE:NW $2,500 Lifetime, 1 Dash; Purse $1,000---Gamine Unique, 7-year-old, b m, Temperance, MI, winner in 2:04.2, lifetime $550; AGoodMatch (2nd), 4-year-old, br m, Antwerp, OH, lifetime $3,848; CN Foxy Darla (3rd), 2-year-old, b filly, Bristol, IN, lifetime $2,468.
Race Eight---One Mile Pace for Non-Winners ($5,000 in 2007), 2nd Division; Purse $900---Blue Matt Lad, 9-year-old, br h, Onsted, MI, winner in 1:57.4, lifetime $134,011; Ollokot (2nd), 5-year-old, b g, Tecumseh/Adrian, MI, lifetime $25,048; Falcon Appeal (3rd), 11-year-old, b g, Hudson, MI, lifetime $152,020.
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