Author: by Ken Terpenning, Northville Downs Track Announcer

A pair of Opens shared the Friday spotlight at Northville Downs as 6-year-old pacing mare Delightful Summer with driver Marc St. Louis, Jr. and 6-year-old trotting gelding Holton and driver Justin Irvine won their respective divisions.

Freshman were the stars of the eight Ontario Sires Stakes races Friday at Woodbine Mohawk Park and a pair of Gold divisions for male trotters led the way with Myretirementdream winning in impressive fashion in race four, the first $103,000 division.

The Nancy Takter barn has been on a roll all year long at The Meadowlands, with 25 winners from just 69 starters coming into the weekend, and that outfit stayed hot Friday night, winning four of the 12 leg one $30,000 divisions of the New Jersey Sire Stakes for 2-year-olds at The Big M.

Believer (Ridge Warren) and Quarrel (Mike Merton) won co-features at Tioga Downs on Friday.

Drivers Yannick Gingras and Tim Tetrick took down all of the big money as the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes and Stallion Series 2-year-old males raced their first preliminary leg on another hot afternoon Friday at Harrah’s Philadelphia

The rain held up for the first race and only MADC event on the Friday night card at the Big M; another race completed, and another non-favorite winning this wide open affair.

Midway through the 2023 Eldorado Scioto Downs race meet is showing monumental gains over 2022 numbers.

M-M’s Dream set for Hambo Maturity test.

Knight On Ice melted the hearts of the chalk players at Buffalo Raceway on Friday afternoon (July 14) as he lit up the board with a $100.50 victory in a $8,200 pace.