By Tim Bojarski, for Batavia Downs
(Photo courtesy of Fred Brown)
Batavia, NY — The last New York Sire Stake stop of 2024 at Batavia Downs will be on Wednesday (Aug. 28) evening when five 2-year-old trotting fillies will compete in one division for $102,500 in purse money.
That division’s leading points (137) and earnings ($130,509) leader is My Debt Collector (Chapter Seven-Magic Presto) and she will be the one to beat when they line up on Wednesday.
My Debt Collector has four starts in the NYSS with two wins, one second and a third with her lifetime mark of 1:57.4 coming in her very first stake start at Tioga Downs in July. She has won from off the pace and also on the point so her versatility in this short field will make her hard to beat. Currently, she is also the seventh highest earning 2-year-old trotting filly in North America.
Leaving from post four, Jim Morrill Jr. will be in the stirrups behind her for trainer Nifty Norman.
The biggest threat to her looks to be Calculus Risk (Devious Man-K Squared Hanover) who also won her first NYSS event this year in a lifetime mark (2:00.1), however it was also her only win this year and she has been beaten by My Debt Collector twice. That said, she has not missed a single check in her five NYSS outings to date.
Trainer Perry Simser has Jordan Stratton back in the bike and they will depart from post six.
Inn Of The Stars (Chapter Seven-Mel’s Inn) has the fastest win time in this field when she trotted to victory in 1:57 at Tioga Downs in July. But it came in an Excelsior race. She made her first foray into NYSS action last week at Monticello Raceway, but fell short behind both My Debt Collector and Calculus Risk. Wednesday she will start inside both and has a very good shot to improve her standing.
Tyler Buter drove her for both Excelsior wins and will be back aboard for trainer John Butenschoen.
The New York Sire Stake will go as race six. There are also two $20,000 Excelsior events on Wednesday, carded as race seven and eight. Post time for the first race on Wednesday is 6 p.m.