Sunday Afternoon ($9.80) and Eric Davis sat the perfect pocket trip behind the pacesetter Got The Gold and won the $12,000 Open Handicap for mares Tuesday night (Sept. 26) at Rosecroft on a track labeled ‘good’ in 1:54.2.
Month: September 2023
Asher-Stalbaum scores with Beach Fire K at Cumberland
Up-and-coming reinsman Winter Asher-Stalbaum won the swiftest race of the day with Zack Vickerson’s Beach Fire K in 1:55.1 on Tuesday (Sept. 26) at Cumberland Fair.
Carmen Conrad, 77, dies
Carmen Lee Conrad, 77, died at her Canal Winchester, Ohio, home on Sept. 16, 2023.
Sherry Kamps Thomson, 83, dies
Sherry Kamps Thomson, 83, died Sept. 22, 2023.
Branded By Lindy to stand in Ohio
Lindy Farms of Connecticut has announced that Branded By Lindy, 3,1:50.3 ($561,392) (Chapter Seven–The Lindy Label-Cantab Hall) will be syndicated and will stand in Ohio at Hickory Lane Farm beginning with the 2024 breeding season.
Designs On You among DSBF Harrington winners
Rodney Wyatt, Kevin Peck and Gerald Burbage’s Designs On You ($2.20, Allan Davis) was the fastest of three Delaware Standardbred Breeders’ Fund (DSBF) 2-year-old stakes winners for pacing fillies Tuesday (Sept. 26) at Harrington Raceway.
Burke, Ducharme double up in Massachusetts Sire Stakes
The second day of the $3 million Massachusetts Sire Stakes held at Plainridge Park on Tuesday (Sept. 26) featured 2-year-old performers of both gaits and genders. The fillies went one $75,000 race each on the trot and pace while the colts and geldings had split divisions for both gaits that were valued at $40,000 apiece.
Freshman phenom Karl tries for five in Bluegrass bow
Nancy Takter’s unbeaten Tactical Landing colt Karl makes his move out of Kentucky Sire Stakes domination onto the Grand Circuit, where he will put his four-race win streak on the line in the fifth of five divisions for $405,100 Bluegrass Stakes for 2-year-old trotting colts and geldings on a dynamite Thursday (Sept. 28) card to open the stakes meet at the Red Mile.
Reminder of Jimmy Freight Stakes conditions
The inaugural C$100,000 Jimmy Freight Stakes at Woodbine Mohawk Park is quickly approaching on Saturday (Oct. 7).
It’s My Show at No. 2 in Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown poll
Little Brown Jug champion It’s My Show showed up at No. 2 in the Week 16 edition of the Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown poll released Tuesday while T C I also moved up and a familiar name rejoined the Top 10.