Ken Warkentin’s 2026 Hambletonian Oaks Winter Book Top 10

Thursday, January 29, 2026

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1-Setyoursightshigh – 11 – 7-4-0 record, Dan Patch Award winner, leading money winner in division with $678,159, mark of 1:53.1, Ohio Sires Stakes champion & Breeders Crown runner up for trainer Marcus Melander, Kentucky bred by In Range

2-Nezuko Kamado S – 11 – 6-2-1 record, banked $549,064, mark of 1:52.4, beat Storybook Love in the Big Apple Final & just missed in the Goldsmith Maid, another Marcus Melander trainee, Courant Inc. homebred by Chapter Seven

3-Storybook Love – O’Brien Award nominee with a 12 – 4-4-1 record ($497,921), Chapter Seven filly capped off her season with a career best of 1:52.2 Breeders Crown upset for trainer Max Bax

4-Southwind Chaska – 10 – 6-1-1 ($245,842), Tactical Landing filly won back-to-back Grand Circuit stakes @ The Red Mile in 1:51.4 and 1:52.1, second by a head in a NJ Classic Final for trainer Jim Oscarsson

5-All Time Trot S – 7 – 3-3-0 ($278,202), Swedish bred by Googoo Gaagaa, Goldsmith Maid winner in 1:54, second by a neck in the Kindergarten Final for Team Svanstedt

6-Bingo Night – 12 – 5-3-3 ($307,162), Ontario bred by Green Manalishi S, won OSS Super Final in 1:53.4 from post ten, second to Sugar Packet in the Peaceful Way for trainer Dustin Jones

7-Ginger Tree Lex – 8 – 7-0-0 ($274,440), daughter of Bar Hopping dominated PASS, won that final in 1:53.4 for trainer Steven Cook

8-Atlantic Summer – 11 – 2-2-2 ($390,815), upset the Jim Doherty Memorial in 1:55.4, close second as the beaten favorite in the Matron for Team Burke, from first crop of Captain Corey

9-Sharp Seven – 11 – 5-2-1 ($400,900), by Chapter Seven, NYSS champion with a mark of 1:55, third in the Big Apple Final for Hambletonian winning trainer George Ducharme

10-Demonic Niko – 10 – 7-2-1 ($277,260), fastest win in 1:55, filly by In Range dominant in Ohio Sires Stake, third to Setyoursightshigh in that final for trainer Erv Miller

ON THE BUBBLE

11-Country Glide – 8 – 1-3-1 ($269,625), KYSS champion won that final in 1:52.3, daughter of Tactical Landing trained by Melvin Schmucker

12-Lainey W – 11 – 3-4-0 ($218,216), second by a nose as the heavy favorite in the Jim Doherty Memorial, Bar Hopping filly with a mark of 1:53.4 for trainer Marcus Melander

13-Sugar Packet – 9 – 3-4-0 ($236,192), Peaceful Way winner in 1:53.3, Blake MacIntosh trains the daughter of Six Pack

14-For Dayze – 10 – 6-3-0 ($263,000), daughter of Swan For All upset the Indiana Sires Stakes Super Final in 1:54.4 for trainer Roger Welch

15-Emmas Mystery CCL – 9 – 4-0-3 ($228,636), rallied to upset the NJSS Final in 1:53.2, Muscle Hill filly trained by Noel Daley