Gillespie watches Hambletonian dream unfoldRonnie Gillespie took Big Ranger (In Range) from an unraced colt to Ohio’s 2025 Horse of the Year without so much as a hiccup, winning nine of eleven starts with him, seven of those on Ohio’s own state-bred circuit before the horse had even left home turf. Big Ranger now heads into Saturday’s 101st Hambletonian at the Meadowlands as the $1 million race’s 2-1 morning-line favourite, drawn from post four and chasing divisional champion Apex. Big Ranger is owned by Madison Global, a group made up of Anthony Miller, Wes Beachy, Reuben Herschberger and Benjamin Shrock, based out of Dundee, Ohio. Big Ranger has now won twelve of fourteen career starts and banked $756,892. Whether Big Ranger wins Saturday or not, the record of how he got there won’t change.