Osborne's Gypsy wins OSS

Osborne’s Gypsy, the lone Ohio Triple Crown winner of 2006 and 2-Year-Old Pacing Filly of last year, was but one of the stars on Scioto Down’s Memorial Day matinee card. The On The Attack filly, driven by Brett Miller, scored in a lifetime-best 1:53.3 for her ninth victory in 10 lifetime starts. She’s trained by Eric Hamlet of Jerome T. Osborne of Mentor, Ohio.

Osborne’s Gyspy’s margin of victory was three lengths in a $20,000 Ohio Sire Stakes (OSS) event. She also won her OSS leg at Lebanon three weeks ago, when the series got underway for the summer. On Memorial Day, there were three divisions each of the stakes events for sophomore pacing and trotting fillies.

The draw of Sire Stakes action, coupled with Scioto’s traditional summer holiday offerings of barn area tours, activities for kids, and free parking and admission, drew a meet high attendance of 5,565.

Miller, who had five winners for the day, steered Nip N Attack (like Osborne’s Gypsy, a daughter of On The Attack) to an identical clocking of 1:53.3 in another pacing split. Nip N Attack, owned by Jay Corey, David Habeger and trainer Virgil Morgan Jr., was third behind Osborne’s Gypsy in Lebanon’s opening round of Sire Stakes action. In this leg, she made a bold move from the back of the pack at the half and drew off to win by 5 1/4 lengths. The win, her second this year, lowered her mark by more than three seconds.

Appealling Sammi, a daughter of Nobleland Sam owned by Stephen Sexton of Xenia, got things just the way she wanted it in her division–she took the lead and just kept going to post her 17^th win in 19 lifetime starts. With trainer Sam “Chip” Noble III in the bike, she had to fend off a hard-charging Evening Jet to hold on by a neck in a lifetime best 1:54.2.

A pair of “Misses”–Miss Color Chip and Miss Snippy Queen–put on a battle royale in the stretch of their trotting division, with Miss Color Chip and Don Irvine Jr. prevailing by a neck in 1:58.2. The Chip Chip Hooray daughter, trained and owned by Verlin Yoder of Columbia City, Ind., is now three for six this year.

The finish was just as tight in the opening trot division, as Belle Lavec closed relentlessly to nail Winnie The Who by a neck in 1:58.4. John Melsheimer trains and drives the Master Lavec filly for the Mel Rose Stable of Hopewell, Ohio. It was the second win of the season for Belle Lavec, who just missed to Tilly Bomb (by the very same margin) in the opening round of Sire Stakes action at Lebanon.

BV’s Sister is the only trotting winner that had breathing room at the finish. The Big Victory filly, trained by Morgan for Barnett Zimmerman LLC of Deerfield, Ill., took the lead at the start. With Miller aboard, she widened her margin to score by four lengths in 1:57.3, lowering her mark substantially. She’s now two-for-two this season, and two-for-two in OSS action at three. (Scioto Downs)

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