At long last the wait is over, and perhaps the latest in a long line of trotting queens is ready to rule over the older trotting division. Yo Tillie, the 2025 Dan Patch Award winner as the best 3-year-old trotting filly in the land, will make her first start since winning the Breeders Crown on October 25 at Woodbine Mohawk Park. The daughter of Tactical Landing, co-owned by Andrew Harris along with William Pollock and Bruce Areman, starts from post six in one of seven $50,000 divisions of the Kentucky Sire Stakes at Oak Grove Racing & Gaming on Monday (April 27). Although her first pari-mutuel start of 2026 will come on Monday, Yo Tillie qualified brilliantly with a 1:54 2/5 mile at the Meadowlands on April 11. She was entered for a second preparatory effort one week later but didn't start because she tied-up. "With any other horse I probably would've qualified them, but with her I didn't want to compound the issue," said Harris. "It is not like she tied up bad. I just didn't see the point of qualifying her when she wasn't 100 percent." The minor setback aside, Harris is thrilled with how his now 4-year-old is coming back to the races and is looking forward to what the future has in store for Yo Tillie. "I was really happy with her qualifier and [driver Todd McCarthy] was completely shutting her down coming for home," said Harris. "I don't see why she can't be a major force again [in 2026]. It'll be different when we get to the aged mares, but I think her first six starts are just against 4-year-olds in Kentucky." Harris was referring to the lucrative Sire Stakes program offered in Kentucky at Oak Grove during the spring. The track offers two $50,000 legs and a $100,000 final for 4-year-olds from April 27 to May 16, and then three more $50,000 legs and a $150,000 final on June 22. Due to the nature of the Grand Circuit calendar, the third leg of the Sire Stakes on June 15 conflicts with the Armbro Flight for older mares at Woodbine Mohawk Park on June 13. Harris said the loose plan is to skip that Sire Stakes leg for the Armbro Flight before returning for the final and eventually taking on the 4-year-old boys in the Hambletonian Maturity at the Meadowlands on July 11. ► Sign up for our FREE DRF Harness Digest Newsletter "There is no set schedule. She'll tell us and we'll go along with it," said Harris, who did stake Yo Tillie to a number of events against the boys but not until the latter part of the year after she's had ample time to acclimate to racing against older foes and to show she can go with them. "I could just stay against the fillies. "Super Chapter was a freak. [Emoticon Legacy] from Luc Blais was a freak. I'm not exactly wanting to throw her in against those guys too quickly. Even Go Dog Go is a beast of a horse. There is a difference between the boys, and the girls and I don't think it is a soft year for the boys. There are a lot of good ones coming back," said Harris. "The 4-year-old group is stacked and then you get to the older boys like Antognoni and Lexus Kody, they are no joke, let alone Up Your Deo or Periculum who could trip out and win." As accomplished as many of the 2026 older trotting faction are, Yo Tillie has quite a résumé of her own. She has won 19 of 24 career starts and been worse than third only twice. Her earnings sit at $1,284,495, quite impressive considering she wasn't eligible to two of the richest races for 3-year-old trotting fillies - the Hambletonian Oaks and Kentucky Filly Futurity. Perfect in four starts over the Oak Grove surface, Yo Tillie will put her unblemished record on the line versus eight foes in Monday's 11th race on the 14-race card. The field includes $404K earner Voguish (post three) and $519K winner R Dutchess (post five). Other Sire Stakes standouts in attendance on Monday include Glen Garnsey and Matron winner Unreasonable (race two), Breeders Crown winner The Last Martini (race seven) and 1:49 3/5 Bluegrass winner Go Dog Go (race 13). Ginger Tree Lex makes her 2026 debut riding a seven-race winning streak in the ninth race $25,000 Oak Grove Trotting Oaks prep. Post time for Yo Tillie's race is estimated at 5:40 P.M. (EDT) while the first race kicks off at 2:10 P.M. (EDT).