Gotthegreenlight looks formidable in NYSS at Batavia Wednesday

The New York Sire Stakes returns to Batavia Downs on Wednesday (Aug. 17) with $114,000 in prize money to be split up in two five-horse, $57,000 divisions for 3-year-old pacing fillies and Gotthegreenlight comes in hot and looking for her share.

Gotthegreenlight (American Ideal-Bet On Luck) was the 2-year-old champion of her NYSS division last year and has come back just as good at three. With five wins in only eight starts in 2022, Gotthegreenlight is currently the second highest earning 3-year-old pacing filly in North America behind only Treacherous Dragon. She is the top NYSS earner ($136,660) and points-leader (208) in her category and is as versatile a filly as you could find.

She has won on all size tracks, both on the front and from behind, and ran off four straight wins in stakes action before getting beat by only 3-1/4 lengths in a 1:49.3 mile after being parked to three-quarters in 1:21.3 in the Shady Daisy at The Meadowlands on Hambletonian Day.

Besides already equaling her own career mark of 1:51 this year, Gotthegreenlight also broke the nine-year-old Yonkers track record for 3-year-old pacing fillies with her 1:51.3 effort on July 12. She may do the same on Wednesday to the 11-year-old Batavia standard of 1:52.4 set by New Album in 2011.

Gotthegreenlight has her regular pilot Jason Bartlett in the bike for trainer Nifty Norman and has drawn post five.