Month: January 2024

For the eighth consecutive time, Ready Cash was once again the leading sire in France.

Driver Jacob Cutting, 22, continues to impress both on and off the track. The Alberta native just completed his first $1 million year, achieving that plateau off the strength of a very impressive season at Running Aces in 2023, where he won 60 races and had 171 top-three finishes from 413 trips to the gate, while banking $785,175 in purses.

Seaside Diva overcame a catastrophic mid-year injury and returned to the track on her way to being named the 2023 Ohio 2-Year-Old Pacing Filly of the Year.

Here is the 2024 training roster for the Burke Training Center in Astor, Fla. First crop sires with horses training in Astor include Cattlewash, Dancin Lou, Gimpanzee, Papi Rob Hanover, Propulsion and Tall Dark Stranger. The Burke Stable is training 79 2-year-olds.

Although the summer/fall meet at Batavia Downs concluded less than four weeks ago, the new year brings a new season of harness racing at the oldest lighted harness track in North America as The Downs kicks off its 2024 winter race meet on Thursday (Jan. 4) at 3 p.m.

Muscle Dynasty ($5.80) muscled his way to a 1:55.2 victory in Tuesday night’s (Jan. 2) $25,000 Open Handicap Trot at Bally’s Dover.