Batavia: Leading ladies look to shine in NY Sire Stakes

Batavia Downs will host the New York Sire Stakes again on Wednesday (Aug. 26) night with a single eight-horse field lining up for $110,200 in purse money and featuring the three leading ladies from that division. 

Seveallisto (Chapter Seven-Callisto Dream) is the top earner ($79,740) of this division, but sits second in points (124) on the strength of two NYSS wins so far. She has done her best work this year at Yonkers Raceway where she took a lifetime mark of 1:58 and for the year overall, has yet to miss the board in five starts.

Seveallisto will start from post five with driver Leon Bailey as assigned by trainer Jessica Okusko. 

Jula Florence (Chapter Seven-Jula Shes Magic) is in a virtual statistical tie with Seveallisto, as she is second in earnings ($78,085) but first in points (143) and also has two NYSS wins to her credit. Her mark came at Tioga Downs when she won in 1:56 4/5 in a gate to wire victory, and aside from an untimely break two starts ago, she has not been worse than second in her five 2026 outings. 

Jula Florence drew post six for trainer Julie Miller who has Tyler Miller aboard here once again. 

Chapizzy (Chapter Seven-Mizzy Brenda K) ranks third among this group for both earnings ($45,297) and points (73) and may have very well charted higher if it weren’t for her penchant for breaking, which she has done in half of her four lifetime starts. It’s anyone's guess what she’ll do here, but the outside draw was not favorable to her this week. 

Chapizzy has post seven for this start and trainer George Ducharme has Matt Kakaley in the bike as usual.

There is another filly that has really come on strong lately in this field as well.

Seven Thirds (Chapter Seven-Dune Hill) comes in on a three race win streak, two of which came in Excelsior Series action. However, her last win was in the top tier NYSS and produced her lifetime mark of 1:58 1/5 at Saratoga. A continuation of this trend could definitely find her getting her picture taken on Wednesday.

Seven Thirds has post eight for trainer Lucas Wallin who has tabbed Jason Bartlett to steer.

There are also two $20,000 NYSS Excel Series events on the card, programmed as race seven and eight. 

Post time for the first race at Batavia Downs on Wednesday is 5:00 p.m.

Pick 5 Carryover on Wednesday

After no one hit the Pick-5 wager at Batavia Downs on Saturday (Aug. 22), there is a $1,127 carryover pool for that wager in the first race on Wednesday and the management of Batavia Downs has announced that the pool will be guaranteed at $3,500 through the United States Trotting Association’s Strategic Wagering program.

The Pick-5 at Batavia Downs is a 50-cent minimum wager that starts in race one and runs through race five. Post time for the first race is 5 p.m.

Free full card past performance programs for that race, along with every live race at Batavia can always be downloaded at The Downs’ website (bataviadownsgaming.com) under the “Live Racing” tab. And all the racing action can be viewed as it happens for free at the Batavia Downs Live Stream on YouTube.

-edited release (Tim Bojarski for Batavia Downs)