Month: May 2025

Yogi Sheridan collected wins in every American Harness Drivers Club event on Sunday (May 4), winning both $7,500 divisions at Harrah’s Philadelphia before firing up the highway to win the sole $10,000 dash at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.

The traditional Gran Premio Lotteria at the Agnano track in Naples ended in a thrilling finish between the two half-siblings Executiv Ek with Andrea Guzzinati and Always Ek with Magnus A. Djuse.

The sophomore Greenshoe gelding Lionheart Hanover, a winner at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on Tuesday (April 29), came right back on the first Sunday evening (May 4) card of the year here and notched a second photo victory in five days, winning the $14,000 featured trot.

Braxten Boyd and Tyler Miller recorded driving grand slams at Tioga Downs on Sunday (May 4).

Hemsworth N and Mad Max Hanover were the two horses assigned the outermost starting slots in the $15,000 fast-class handicap pace Sunday (May 4) at Harrah’s Philadelphia, and they backed the Race Office’s judgment, as the Sweet Lou gelding Hemsworth N just held together over Mad Max Hanover by a head in 1:50.4 over “good” going.

Roger Hammer’s Battin Athousand captured his 23rd career victory in Shenandoah Downs’ $8,000 featured race Sunday (May 4) as the Woodstock oval continued its “10 Years of Pari-Mutuel Racing” campaign. 

Five days after delivering a decisive 1:50.4 score in his Maryland debut, Chalk Hanover proved a powerful two-move winner in Saturday’s (May 3) featured $9,000 top-level conditioned pace at Rosecroft Raceway, giving driver Jonathan Roberts one of four wins on the 11-race Derby Day program.

Driver Drew Campbell helped himself to a second helping of sweet victory in the $5,500 featured pace on Saturday (May 3) at Cumberland Raceway, giving Dinner Party two in a row in the ‘fine dining’ section.

Wheelzablazin (Colin Kelly) charged late to win the featured $11,000 trot at Tioga Downs on Saturday (May 3).