On a picture-perfect Sunday Night Lights (Aug. 24) evening, Winnpanzee proved best after a step up in class in the third $80,000 leg of the Kentucky Championship Series for 3-year-old filly trotters in 1:52. Harrisburg Heist completed the exacta for Yannick Gingras and Ron Burke with his triumph in the leg for sophomore male pacers in 1:49.4.
Author: by Kimberly French, for The Red Mile
Lord Of Misrule scores 50th career win at Windsor Fair
Lord Of Misrule traded in his recent bridesmaid status in favor of winner’s circle glory on Saturday (Aug. 23) at Maine’s Windsor Fair, securing his 50th career win after settling for runner-up placings in nine of his 14 appearances this season.
Another victory for Jabalpur
France’s new trotting star, the 6-year-old Jabalpur with Eric Raffin, struck again on Saturday evening, winning a decisive victory in the Grand Prix du Departement des Alpes at Cagnes Sur Mer in 1:51.4, ahead of long-time leader Ideal Ligneries with trainer/driver Jean Philippe Monclin and the Italian Dimitri Ferm with Marco Stefani.
‘Lissy’ remains perfect after Big M score
Busy Miss Lissy S put up a fourth win in as many starts as the Ake Svanstedt trained and driven daughter of Calgary Games-Hill’s Angel S took a $25,000 division of the third leg of the Kindergarten Series for 2-year-old filly trotters in 1:57 Saturday night at The Meadowlands.
Human Cocktail wins at Tioga; races canceled after sixth Friday
Human Cocktail (Ridge Warren) captured $10,000 Leg 2 of the Summer Sensation Claiming Series at Tioga Downs on Friday (Aug. 22).
Suzanne F. Christensen, 83, dies
Suzanne F. Christensen passed away on Tuesday, August 19, 2025 at Bolster Heights Residential Care Facility in Auburn, Maine. Sue was born on July 17, 1942 in Lewiston, Maine.
City Of Hope wins feature at Vernon
City Of Hope (Jeff Gregory) captured the $7,500 featured Kenny Schultz Jr. Memorial Trot at Vernon Downs on Friday (Aug. 22).
Four track records set at Indiana (PA) Fair
The Pennsylvania Fair Circuit set up shop in this west central Pennsylvania county, native area of actor Jimmy Stewart, on Thursday and Friday for two days of racing during the fair, and within five races of the start of the meet, a track record had been rewritten by a 2-year-old trotter three times, setting the tone for the rest of the stand’s racing.
Sweet Odds, Theobald feature winners at Philly
Sweet Odds finally broke her run of “seconditis” with a 1:52.3 lifetime best in the $12,000 co-feature for pacing females on Friday afternoon at Harrah’s Philadelphia, while on the trotting side of the featured events Theobald came wide off lively cover to take the decision in 1:55.4.
Eyes Up seeks third BSS win of 2025 as freshman filly pacers compete in Fourth Leg at Scioto
There have been 15 different winners through three legs of the 2025 Buckeye Stallion Series for freshman filly pacers. The only horse to claim a repeat victory thus far, Eyes Up, will go for her third BSS win on Thursday (Aug. 21) as Eldorado Scioto Downs hosts four $20,000 divisions of the fourth leg as part of an 11-race card.