Mack found room along the pylons late and surged to victory in the Blue Hen/Open Handicap Pace at Bally’s Dover on Thursday night (Dec. 7).
Year: 2023
Gaitway Guy grinds to gritty DSBF win
GTY Stable’s homebred Gaitway Guy withstood a sustained first-over attack to score his second preliminary win in the Delaware Standardbred Breeders’ Fund (DSBF) series for 3-year-old male pacers at Bally’s Dover, drawing away to a handy 1:54.1 victory in his $20,000 second-round division on Thursday (Dec. 7).
Workin Ona Mystery to stand stud in Indiana
Workin Ona Mystery will stand stud for the 2024 breeding season at Schwartz Boarding Farm in Berne, Ind. His stud fee will be $4,000.
Increased action this week at Big M
They’ll be an extra night of live racing at The Meadowlands this week, so take the night off from the holiday season hustle-and-bustle and head to the mile oval Thursday (Dec. 7) for an ultra-competitive 10-race program.
Taylor Palmer Jr. receives the 2024 Spirit of the Horse Award
The Rutgers Equine Science Center presented Mr. Taylor Palmer Jr. with the 2024 Spirit of the Horse award for his decades of service to the New Jersey equine industry. The award was presented to Palmer during the Rutgers Equine Science Center’s 2023 “Evening of Science & Celebration,” sponsored by Mid-Atlantic Equine Medical Center.
2024 Living Horse Hall of Fame ballots are in the mail
The Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame’s Living Horse Hall of Fame ballots are in the mail.
Seven-week Spring meet dates approved for Virginia’s Shenandoah Downs
The Virginia Racing Commission approved 2024 spring harness dates for Shenandoah Downs Wednesday morning at its December meeting in New Kent.
Pridecrest has top billing in Cal Expo Trot
Track record holder Pridecrest gets some class relief and looms large in Friday night’s (Dec. 8) featured $6,600 conditioned trot at Cal Expo.
Legendary French champion sire Love You has been retired from stud duties
The 24-year-old Love You, bred and owned by Jean Pierre Dubois, has been retired from stud duties.
After bad streak to start 2023, it’s been all smiles for Jimmy McNeight Jr.
Jimmy McNeight Jr. went from as low as he could go to as high as he has ever been in the span of 10 months. The western New York product had made steady progress since embarking on a driving career in 2016. But at the beginning of this year, things just weren’t working out and, for the first time since he started, McNeight was having doubts.