{"id":195092,"date":"2025-10-12T14:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T14:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/195092\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T14:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T14:30:10","slug":"sammy-jo-hanover-shocks-in-courageous-lady-at-northfield-u-s-trotting-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/195092\/","title":{"rendered":"Sammy Jo Hanover shocks in Courageous Lady at Northfield \u2013 U.S. Trotting News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northfield, OH \u2013 Sammy Jo Hanover won Saturday\u2019s $125,000 Grade 3 Courageous Lady Stakes at MGM Northfield Park in gate-to-wire fashion. She paced the mile in 1:51.3.<\/p>\n<p>Leaving from the rail at odds of 31-1, Sammy Jo Hanover was put into play early by driver Dan Noble. Odds On Chesapeake (Ronnie Wrenn Jr.) also left alertly and was steered into the two-hole when they entered the first turn.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"340\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Sammy-Jo-Hanover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-206199\"  \/>Sammy Jo Hanover captured the Grade 3 Courageous Lady in 1:51.3 on Saturday at MGM Northfield Park. Diane Wise photo.<\/p>\n<p>Sammy Jo Hanover led the 3-year-old pacing fillies past the opening quarter in :27.1.<\/p>\n<p>Entering the far turn for the first time, race favorite Rodeo Drive Deo (David Miller) flushed out Time Of The Season (Aaron Merriman).<\/p>\n<p>At the half in a well-rated :56, Sammy Jo Hanover led Time Of The Season by three-quarters of a length.<\/p>\n<p>Up the backstretch, Time Of The Season continued her attack on Sammy Jo Hanover, but Noble continued to forge forward. They arrived at the three-quarters in 1:23.1.<\/p>\n<p>Entering the final turn, Sammy Jo Hanover put away Time Of The Season.<\/p>\n<p>She had fresh competition from Odds On Chesapeake and Rodeo Drive Deo, who began a three-wide bid for the lead, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/stars.ustrotting.com\/stallion.cfm?stallion_id=762\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Captaintreacherous<\/a> daughter cruised to a 2-1\/4 length victory. Odds On Chesapeake finished second, with Rodeo Drive Deo third.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI learned a few things about her after the first time I drove her,\u201d said Noble, referring to a second-place finish with Sammy Jo Hanover in the Nadia Lobell on Aug. 23 at Eldorado Scioto Downs. \u201cI wanted to be on the lead, but I was willing to give up the front end if I had to. She\u2019s just been in some tough spots this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 3-year-old filly, who is owned by Oompa\u2019s Farm Inc. and Joseph Barbera, is trained by Scott DiDomenico. She pushed her career earnings to $248,920 with the victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northfield, OH \u2013 Sammy Jo Hanover won Saturday\u2019s $125,000 Grade 3 Courageous Lady Stakes at MGM Northfield Park&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-195092","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\/195092","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=195092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}