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Odds On Racing's

Trainer of the Month
for June 2009

Ivan Sugg

Deshler, Ohio horseman Ivan Sugg first gained national fame as a youngster driving the pacing mare Glad Rags against top pacers like Meadow Skipper and Timely Beauty. Now 67, Sugg concentrates most of his efforts on conditioning Standardbreds and leaves the driving to his sons, Kurt and Duke.

Ivan Sugg

Sugg was a respected horseman who turned out many reliable performers before striking gold in the pacing colt No Pan Intended, winner of the 2003 Little Brown Jug and that year's Triple Crown for pacers, while Sugg was named 2003 Trainer of the Year by the U.S. Harness Writers.

No Pan Intended won 17 of his 21 starts that year and finished second three times. The colt was also named Horse of the Year. He on the Pacing Triple Crown in 2003, and in 2004 snared the Breeders Crown, as well, becoming the only harness horse in history to win both titles.

Sugg Horse of the year honors

           Trainer Ivan Sugg accepts the E. Roland Harriman Horse of the Year trophy
           for No Pan Intended from (left to right) USHWA Chairman of the Board
           Moira Fanning, Freehold Raceway's Don Codey and USTA Chairman of the
           Board Joe Faraldo.

Sugg was voted into the Ohio Harness Race Hall of Fame in 2006 when Ohio's chapter of the United States Harness Writers Association gave Sugg the nod for his lifetime work, which reached a high plateau in 2003 and 2004.

Ivan Sugg's Career Training Statistics
Year   Starts   Wins 2nds  3rds Earnings
2007      20         2       5        3      $46,524 0.289
2006      63       13      11       9      $326,890 0.351
2005      46         5        8        3      $94,064 0.227
2004      168      26      24      21      $533,062 0.276
2003      127      33      11      12      $1,753,030 0.339
2002      124      25      25      14      $590,495 0.351
2001      218      34      20      30      $912,060 0.253
2000      244      28      21      34      $829,365 0.209
1999      236      46      43      35      $1,298,787 0.346
1998      163      22      24      22      $472,093 0.262
1997      124      21      22      10      $253,730 0.295
1996      276      54      35      35      $562,585 0.308
1995      213      33      36      25      $322,933 0.288
1994      412      62      54      37      $732,973 0.253
1993      247      54      27      30      $577,147 0.320
1992      213      27      29      23      $231,271 0.238
1991      241      38      29      23      $234,695 0.256
Total               523                       $9,771,704