Author: by Chris Tully, for First Tracks Cumberland

Veteran reinsman Drew Campbell skillfully secured lifetime driving victory number 6,000 on Saturday at Cumberland Raceway, winning three races overall on the mid-day racing program.

Everything went Big Skewy N’s way in the Saturday night feature at The Meadowlands, a $40,000 Preferred Handicap for pacers, as the Scott Blackler trainee gunned down the razor-sharp Maximus Miki in deep stretch as the longest shot on the board.

Round two of the series for ICF 2- or 3-year-old horses without $20,000 in lifetime earnings takes over the spotlight at Hawthorne Saturday night.

McGwire Sowers drove a grand slam of four winners on Friday at Cumberland Raceway, which also gave the ‘Rising Star’ his 1,000th career victory.

When entries were announced on Thursday (Dec. 5) for the second qualifying race of the Winter Meeting for the Prix d’Amerique, the interest was so high that seven horses were eliminated.

Facing the likes of Twin B Joe Fresh, Kobes Gigi and Grace Hill all year long can make 12 months feel like a whole lot more when you have no wins, but trainer Ake Svanstedt found just the right spot for his 5-year-old pacer Valar Dohaeris to perk up in Friday night’s $27,500 Open 2 Handicap for fillies and mares at The Meadowlands, and she responded with her first victory of 2024 in her 14th start.

Hanover Shoe Farms has announced that Captaintreacherous‘ book is full and closed. He has been the Flagship for 2-year-old pacing sires by money earnings for four straight years.