Month: June 2025

Attraente (Gimpanzee) treated fans to a dazzling performance on Sunday night (June 1) at Running Aces, converting a perfect pocket trip into a 2-1/2 length tally in 1:56.3 to lower the track mark for sophomore trotting fillies while picking up her second win in a row in the Banker Volo series.

If you were ever to see a six-horse field lined up 6-5-4-3-2-1 under the wire the first time, it would be in the featured $16,500 claiming handicap pace at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, where the claiming price of the entrants, in the order listed above, was $39,000, $36,000, $34,000, $32,000, and two $30,000’s.

Tioga Downs welcomed two $52,500 divisions of the New York Sire Stakes (NYSS) for sophomore pacing fillies on Sunday (June 1).

Driver Todd McCarthy, clicking at just over a 25% clip for the year at Harrah’s Philadelphia, was the dominant force on the Sunday (June 1) afternoon card at Philly, winning three of the four feature events.

Cumberland Raceway fans were reminded that age is only a number on on Saturday (May 31) as 87-year-old Bob Nadeau made his way to the winners circle once again at the iconic Southern Maine oval.

The Graduate Series for 4-year-olds kicked-off for 2025 with three divisions on Saturday night at Woodbine Mohawk Park.

In what could be characterized as the most dominant performance of the year in the weekly pacing feature, Maximus Miki destroyed his foes with a wicked front-end speed mile at The Meadowlands Saturday night in the marquee $27,500 event for open pacers.