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The heralded One Eight Hundred, so impressive in his 1:50.2 – 26.1 first-round win in the Bobby Weiss Series for three-year-old pacing males at The Downs at Mohegan Sun, took last week off but showed Saturday he had lost nothing by winning his section of the $17,500 third and final Weiss prelims.
An old adage says “when you're hot you're hot” and no amateur driver is hotter than John Calabrese. Not only did he win both divisions of the American Harness Drivers Club trots today at Freehold Raceway but he won an amateur contest last night (Saturday) at the Meadowlands and he's now had five wins (and four seconds) in his last ten trips behind the starting gate.
It’s not every day the phone rings and the person on the other end wants to send a stakes-caliber mare to your stable. But that’s exactly what happened a few weeks before the Blue Chip Matchmaker Series first leg when Todd Buter answered Bill Bercury’s call.
A pair of California Sire Stakes for the 3 and 4-year-old male pacers headed by Lodi Phillip and It’s Pointless, respectively, and an Open Pace featuring Allmyx’sliventexas are the main attractions on Sunday night’s (April 18) Cal Expo program.
Trainer Marcus Melander unveiled a contender for the Aug. 7 Hambletonian Oaks at The Meadowlands Friday night (April 16), as his Imhatra AM S worked out a perfect pocket trip with Brian Sears doing the driving on the way to winning her 3-year-old debut in 1:56.3.
There was a ton of action from start to finish in Friday night's (April 16) fifth race at the Meadowlands.
It was another Burke Brigade Day at Miami Valley on Friday (April 16) as stable mates Free Thinker and Drama Act were victorious in the two feature races on the card.
April showers, a sloppy track and a frigid 36-degrees set the stage for the trot-heavy card of races at Plainridge Park on Friday afternoon (April 16) but the adverse conditions could not dissuade the top effort put in by Pappy Go Go who won the $15,000 Winners-Over trotting feature.
Itzalldowntoluck N and Extrilla Hanover were victorious in the $11,200 divisions of the featured pace on Friday afternoon (April 16) at Harrah’s Philadelphia.
The 12-year-old trotting veteran Melady's Monet is no stranger to winning. He won for the 73rd time in his long career on Friday (April 16), winning the Preferred Handicap Trot at Freehold Raceway by one length.
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