Feeling Sweet prevails at Harrington; Stafford wins five
May 17, 2022George and Tina Dennis' Feeling Sweet ($4.60, Mike Cole) notched her second win of the Harrington Raceway meet with a 1:53.1 triumph in the $20,000 Mares Open on Tuesday (May 17).
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George and Tina Dennis' Feeling Sweet ($4.60, Mike Cole) notched her second win of the Harrington Raceway meet with a 1:53.1 triumph in the $20,000 Mares Open on Tuesday (May 17).
Spy Booth started his 4-year-old campaign with only one lifetime victory, but he ran his 2022 record to three-for-three with a 1:56 victory in Tuesday's (May 17) $15,000 featured trot at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono.
A study done by researchers at the UC Davis Veterinary Genetics Laboratory has provided a baseline for assessing and managing genetic diversity in the Standardbred.
Running Aces is honoring the memory of two prominent pacers that raced at the Minnesota harness racing oval, with the naming of two late closing events which will both get underway next week.
New Jersey State Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin spent part of his Monday morning (May 16) at Gaitway Farm Training Center, where he toured the grounds, talked with horsemen and horsewomen, and even climbed into a double-seated jog cart for a trip around the farm’s one-mile track.
The two Dan Patch Award winners in the older pacing category in 2021 squared off in a Harrah’s Philadelphia qualifier Tuesday morning (May 17), with Allywag Hanover, making his first trip behind the gate this season, defeating the mare Lyons Sentinel by three-quarters of a length in 1:53.
On Tuesday (May 16), a diverse group of equine industry and animal welfare organizations that includes the U.S. Trotting Association announced “The Final Stretch Alliance to End Horse Slaughter” – a collaborative effort to permanently ban the slaughter of American horses.
On Wednesday night (May 18) at Rosecroft Raceway, $300,000 in purses will be on the line for Maryland Sires Stakes pacers and trotters.
Joviality S, a New York Sire Stakes champion last year, began her sophomore campaign with a sparkling 1:53.2 victory in the first of a trio of $56,000 NYSS flights for 3-year-old trotting fillies on Monday night (May 16) at Yonkers Raceway.
Luck B Mine (Bettor's Delight) scored her first Open win at Saratoga Casino Hotel last season when the John Podres trainee prevailed against the track’s top pacing mares in a feature in mid-September.
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