Brandon Blvd, who currently leads all horses in earnings on the season with nearly $900,000 banked on the year, will journey to The Red Mile on Tuesday afternoon (Sept. 8) for the $80,000 final leg of the Kentucky Championship Series for 3-year-old pacing colts and geldings.
Author: by Ray Cotolo, for The Red Mile
Freshmen pacers keep winning at Windsor
The entire lot of Maine’s 2-year-old pacers toured the Windsor Fair facility on Friday (Sept. 4), with some of the familiar, unbeaten stars emerging as the next great Pine Tree State-bred harness horses.
Ikon Vang DK wins Open Trot at the Windsor Fair
Ikon Vang DK made his Maine debut a winning one at the Windsor Fair on Friday (Sept. 4), scoring at first asking for new connections and earning top honors in the $6,000 open-level trot at the mid-Maine agricultural exhibition.
Strong gains at France’s largest yearling auction
At this year’s Arqana Trot Selected Sale in Deauville, held Sept. 2 – 4, an all-time high record was set for average price at approximately $43,500 — a 15.05% improvement over last year, when the previous record was set at approximately $37,800.
Gingras and Walspea a perfect pair in Big M’s Miss Versatility
Talk about a couple in perfect harmony. Three times this year Yannick Gingras has driven the Trond Smedshammer-trained Walspea, and three times this year the pair have made it to the winner’s circle. In Friday night’s (Sept. 4) feature at The Meadowlands, the prolific pairing took the fourth and final $40,000 leg of the Miss Versatility for open mare trotters in a dazzling lifetime-best 1:50.2.
Leave It To Leo an upset winner at Hoosier Park
Leave It To Leo, driven by Jordan Ross for trainer Dee Smith, capped a wild finish with a 25-1 upset at the wire to win the $22,000 Open Pace on Friday (Sept. 4) at Hoosier Park.
Storybook Love lands in Simcoe Stake
Matt Bax pupil Storybook Love, who surprised last fall to win the Grade 1 Breeders Crown 2-Year-Old Filly Trot, notched the first win of her sophomore season with a comfortable 1:53.1 victory on home turf at Woodbine Mohawk Park in the first of two divisions of the $156,000 Grade 3 Simcoe Stakes for 3-year-old trotting fillies on Friday night (Sept. 4).
Philly hosts final PA-sired prelims
The time to distribute over $3 million to the best Pennsylvania-sired youngsters, by age, sex, and gait, will come this week after the last of the preliminary rounds, the fourth and final leg for 3-year-old male trotters, raced in Sire Stakes and Stallion Series competition on Sunday afternoon (Aug. 30) at Harrah’s Philadelphia, which will host the 3-year-old Sire Stakes Championships and consolations next Sunday, Sept. 6. Stakes purses on the afternoon totaled $138,604.
Fearless Partners, Odds On Monetary grab EBC wins at Tioga
Tioga Downs played host for the Empire Breeders Classic (EBC) for both 3-year-old pacing fillies and pacing colts and geldings on Sunday (Aug. 30).
Warren gets 2,000th win Saturday at Tioga
Driver Ridge Warren scored his 2,000th career victory Saturday (Aug. 29), steering Eyes Of Justice to a one-length triumph at Tioga Downs.