MGM Northfield Park management is glad to announce a return to live racing on Tuesday (Feb. 6) beginning at 6 p.m.
Month: February 2024
Graceful Touch, 24, dies
Graceful Touch, a stakes-winning filly who made a mark in trotting bloodlines, has died at the age of 24 at Hunterton Farm in Paris, Ky.
Hall of Fame trainer Jerry Silverman, 88, dies
Hall of Fame trainer Jerry Silverman, who at the age of 31 won the 1966 Pacing Triple Crown with Romeo Hanover and remained a success on the Grand Circuit for five decades, has died. Mr. Silverman’s son Richie announced the news Monday evening on his Facebook page. Mr. Silverman was 88.
New Vocations stallion auction in progress
New Vocations’ 26th annual stallion auction is in progress via onGait.com.
Meadowlands standards for stakes participation
Per its Nov. 3, 2023 press release containing the New Meadowlands Racetrack ”exclusion list” and as a result of its pending internal investigation on performance enhancing substances, NMR announces that any persons, entities, owner(s) and/or trainers identified on the previously announced “exclusion list,” who have paid into the Meadowlands stakes and whose eligibility and exclusion has not been resolved to the satisfaction of NMR management by May 1, 2024 may result in horse(s) owned or trained by those on the “exclusion list” being denied eligibility to those stakes and being denied any refund of previous payment(s) without recourse for liability to NMR.
Meadows Monday Memo
Here is this week’s Meadows Monday Memo.
Mercer County Harness Horsemen’s Association banquet set for Feb. 10
The 2024 Mercer County (Ohio) Harness Horsemen’s Association annual colt awards banquet and fundraising auction will be held Saturday (Feb. 10) in the Junior Fair building on the Fairgrounds in Celina, Ohio.
USTA ID technician to visit northern Florida training centers
The USTA ID technician, Jeff Schaefer, will be making visits to the northern Florida training centers (Southern Oaks, Spring Garden and Gil Crest areas) this upcoming weekend, Feb. 9-11.
Harrah’s Philadelphia seeks assistant race secretary
Harrah’s Philadelphia seeks an assistant race secretary for the 2024 live racing season which gets underway on April 12.
Long Train Runnin, Kevin Cummings shine at Batavia Downs
The third leg of the Western New York Trackmaster series for pacers was featured at Batavia Downs on Monday afternoon (Feb. 5) and going in, there were three horses still undefeated in that competition. However by the end of the day, only one stayed perfect and that was Long Train Runnin, who won his third straight $9,000 Trackmaster 79 division.