Month: May 2025

Winning Group 1 races is something that the Italian broodmare Nike Ek’s offspring have a taste for. Last Sunday, her two sons, Always Ek (sired by Filipp Roc) and Executiv Ek (sired by Face Time Bourbon) won and were second in the Group 1 race Gran Premio Lotteria in Naples. Sunday (May 11), her daughter, Diva Ek (sired by Trixton), won the Group 1 race Copenhagen Cup (1-1/4 miles) at Charlottenlund Racetrack in Copenhagen.

Literl Lad Hanover, who literally lost an “a” because of name length rules, certainly brought his A-game to Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on Sunday night (May 11), closing strongly to win the $15,500 featured pace in 1:51.4.

Favorites Bath Bomb and Women Layer successfully scored sweeps of the Kentucky Sire Stakes (KYSS) series with wins in their respective $100,000 finals on the Sunday (May 11) card at Oak Grove, which featured four $100,000 KYSS finals for 4-year-olds.

Walter Birney Jr.’s Don’tmesswithles used a sustained uncovered grind through the final five-sixteenths of a 1:50 mile to reel in 6-5 favorite Sheer Terror in Sunday afternoon’s (May 11) $12,000 Open Handicap Pace at Rosecroft Raceway, scoring his sixth win of the season in the act.

Driver Mark Herschberger won both of the feature races on Sunday (May 11) afternoon at Harrah’s Philadelphia, taking totally different routes to the winners circle while working his way into the local sulky top ten.

Woodstock, VA — Former VHHA “Own a Horse for a Day” promotional contest winner and local resident Steve Wetzel — now an actual harness owner and trainer — won four races at…

Hunting Zone (Tyler Miller) takes the featured $11,000 pace at Tioga Downs on Sunday (May 11).

As the Pine Tree State’s horse people prepare for the start of the Maine Sire Stakes in a few weeks, a pair of the lucrative program’s graduates added to their respective bankrolls on Saturday (May 10) at Cumberland Raceway.

Racing started off hot Saturday night at Eldorado Scioto Downs when the first race went in 1:49.1. Bythemissal did not disappoint seven races later winning the $26,000 Open pace in dominating fashion, under wraps, in 1:48.3.

Heading into the Saturday night feature at The Meadowlands, the headlines were all about Antognoni S, the standout from the Ron Burke barn who was seeking a seventh straight score to get ready for next week’s $175,000 (est.) Arthur J. Cutler Memorial.