Year: 2023

Le Massif (Steeven Genois) grabbed the feature pace on 2023 closing night, Saturday (Nov. 18), at Vernon Downs.

Jim Morrill Jr. put on a driving clinic at Batavia Downs Saturday night (Nov. 18) by winning nine of the 13 races on the card. Morrill won the $15,000 Open I Handicap Trot with E Street, who ran his own personal win streak to four.

Driver Kevin Switzer Jr. was reunited with Maine’s 2023 sophomore pacing champion Luke McGook, with the pair easily capturing Saturday’s (Nov. 18) featured $5,000 conditioned pace at First Tracks Cumberland.

The Florida Standardbred Breeders and Owners Association presented the finals of the Sunshine State Stakes for 2- and 3-year-olds on Saturday (Nov. 18) with trainer Nick Coblentz repeating his heroics of last week with five trips to the winner’s circle.

On a sunny Saturday in Freehold, Vinny Ginsburg crossed the wire before the rest of the field in four out of the 11 races on the card.

Members and directors from USTA District 4 met Saturday (Nov. 18) at the Holiday Inn & Suites Des Moines (IA) Northwest to discuss Association business and vote upon 29 rule change proposals and three suggested bylaw amendments.

The race to the Prix d’Amérique starts Sunday afternoon (Nov. 19) at Vincennes, with the first of the four so-called “B-races”: the Prix de Bretagne.

Two of Sweden’s top trotters, Calgary Games and Very Kronos, have raced for the last time, according to reports that surfaced Thursday (Nov. 16).

Maybe the naming of Hawthorne Race Course’s current Pop-Up Series was right on target after all. Heading into Saturday’s (Nov. 18) third round of the series for Illinois Conceived and Foaled (ICF) 2-year-olds, it’s clear that new winners keep popping up.

The MADC series featured three races on the Friday night (Nov. 17) card at the Meadowlands. As always, the races featured a lot of speed from the start, and two out of the three races saw their favorites defeated.