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The final two events in the USA/Italy Friendship Competition were both contested Monday (Aug. 8) night at Yonkers Raceway, one on the betting card and one off but both for a purse of $20,000.
After spending July in Indiana at Hoosier Park, Alluneedisfaith N relocated to the Bay State for August and kicked off his mid-summer campaign with an impressive win in the $20,000 Open Handicap pacing feature at Plainridge Park on Monday afternoon (Aug 8).
Dribbling Bi established early command in the $15,000 trotting feature on Monday (Aug. 8) afternoon at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, then kept the lead to the wire while lowering his mark to 1:56.
With many of harness racing’s biggest names in action on Saturday (Aug. 6) during the star-studded Hambletonian Day card at The Meadowlands, two of the sport’s top reinsmen were watching the action from the sidelines.
Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes rules allow for a set of races at every fair applying and qualifying, along with five “two-day Sire Stakes events” away from the actual fair dates. The Wayne County Fairgrounds in this northeastern Pennsylvania city has harnessed both possibilities together, with the two-day meet having been held this past Saturday and Sunday, and the fair event to be held this Wednesday and Thursday.
La Bella Vita N (Changeover) drew post seven in a seven-horse featured field on Sunday evening (Aug. 7) at Saratoga Casino Hotel. The Alicia Gray trainee was making her debut in the Fillies and Mares Open at the Spa following a successful stint at Plainridge Park in Massachusetts.
A three-judge panel from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has stayed the July 26 injunction that would have delayed the implementation of the Horseracing Integrity & Safety Authority. The full story from the Thoroughbred Daily News can be found here:
Sire Stay Hungry swept both divisions of the $162,620 Pennsylvania Sire Stakes for 2-year-old pacing colts at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, with winners Lyons Surfing and Annapolis Hanover clocking identical 1:51.3 miles over sloppy going.
The glamour boys were at Georgian Downs Sunday (Aug. 7) for a pair of Ontario Sires Stakes Gold divisions, and the father-son duo of Gregg and Doug McNair swept both events for 3-year-old pacing colts and geldings.
Eddie Miller took no prisoners and went down the road with Cowboy Country to win the $8,000 Great Lakes Amateur Driving Association trot in 1:57.3 on Sunday (Aug. 7) at MGM Northfield Park.
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