{"id":119665,"date":"2025-09-07T00:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T00:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/119665\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T00:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T00:01:16","slug":"dancin-champion-bath-bomb-headline-kentucky-sire-stakes-u-s-trotting-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/119665\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancin Champion, Bath Bomb headline Kentucky Sire Stakes \u2013 U.S. Trotting News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lexington, KY \u2014 On Monday (Sept. 8), the 14-race card at the Red Mile shifts the spotlight to older horses as two $35,000 third-round legs of the Kentucky Sire Stakes for older pacers are feature events of the day. Those contests are supported by five $10,000 fifth-round legs of the Kentucky Wildcat Series for freshman male trotters and pacers.<\/p>\n

Dancin Champion pursues three-race win streak<\/p>\n

A veteran on the Kentucky Sire Stakes trail throughout his three-year career, Dancin Champion and Todd McCarthy make their Bluegrass debut in 2025 from post position four in a field of five for trainer Ron Burke.<\/p>\n

\"\"Dancin Champion and Todd McCarthy look to continue their winning ways in the $35,000 third-round leg of the Kentucky Sire Stakes for older male pacers. Amanda Stephens Photography.<\/p>\n

The 4-year-old son of Sweet Lou<\/a>-Dancewiththebest is 5-2 on the morning line and places his two-race win streak on the line. The gelding is 6-2-1-2 on the season while competing primarily at The Meadows.<\/p>\n

As mentioned previously, the half-brother to world and Ohio champion Dancin Yankee<\/a> is familiar with the red clay defeating Kentucky champion Better Is Nice as a 2- and 3-year-old in the Kentucky Championship Series.<\/p>\n

Bred by Anvil And Lace Farm, the gelding was purchased for $90,000 at the 2022 Lexington Selected Yearling Sale by Burke Racing Stable Knox Services Inc., Weaver Bruscemi and J&T Silva Purnel & Libby.<\/p>\n

Dancin Champion is 6-2-1-2 this year and 34-4-6-4 lifetime. He has collected $272,101 in purse money.<\/p>\n

Bath Bomb looks to return to her winning ways<\/p>\n

Andrew McCarthy and Bath Bomb are 6-5 on the morning line and will begin their mile from post position two in a field of five older mare pacers.<\/p>\n

The daughter of Lather Up<\/a>-Sangaal is trained by Per Engblom and returns to Lexington after a foray to Eldorado Scioto Downs, where she was fifth in the Cleopatra Invitational to Shadows Dancers.<\/p>\n

Bath Bomb is 12-8-2-1 in 2025 with the Cleopatra the only occasion she did not finish in the money. One of those victories was the $150,000 Kentucky Sire Stakes Final for this age, sex and gait at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming and Hotel in June.<\/p>\n

The mare established her lifetime mark of 1:49.1 in the second leg of this series last month and was competitive in the Championship Series last year.<\/p>\n

Bred by Mark Smith, Bath Bomb is owned by Morrison Racing Stables. She went through the ring for $65,000 at the 2022 Lexington Selected Yearling Sale.<\/p>\n

Bath Bomb has earned $391,610 and is 27-11-5-4. Looksgoodinloulou has collected $404,087 with seven wins from 15 trips to the post.<\/p>\n

Racing at the Red Mile will continue through Sunday, Oct. 5, following a Sunday-through-Wednesday schedule. Fans and horsepeople can look forward to 5:05 p.m. post times on Sundays and 1 p.m. post times on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays throughout the meet.<\/p>\n

The Red Mile features industry-low takeout while offering fans a full buffet of wagering options, including bookend daily double wagering, exacta and trifecta wagering, 20 cent superfectas, Pick-3, Pick-4, Pick-5 and Pick-6 offerings, and the Super Hi-5.<\/p>\n

For more information on the upcoming draw schedule, promotional events, the live racing calendar, or free racing program pages, visit www.redmileracing.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lexington, KY \u2014 On Monday (Sept. 8), the 14-race card at the Red Mile shifts the spotlight to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-119665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}