Blazing Home N (Rock N Roll Heaven) prevailed in the 17th Annual Joe Gerrity Jr. Memorial Pace, held Saturday night (Aug. 29) at Saratoga Casino Hotel. One of the richest races of the year at the Spa saw nine participants square off for a purse of $100,000. The event concluding a two-month stint in which the top local pacers slugged it out in Invitational races to accrue points towards the Saturday Final.
Author: by Mike Sardella, for Saratoga Casino Hotel
Sheriff N scores 55th career win in Windsor Fair triumph
Like the fabled old gunslingers of our old west legends, Sheriff N bravely held his ground and took no prisoners while coldly staring down his foes on Saturday (Aug. 29), securing the 55th score of his veteran career while keeping the peace in a crowded rush to the finish during the opening session of harness racing at the Windsor Fair.
Rumble And Sway rallies for Kentucky Championship Series win
Rumble And Sway uncorked a menacing bid off a helmet to collar his rivals for a 1:51.1 victory in the $80,000 Kentucky Championship Series third preliminary for 2-year-old pacing colts and geldings on Sunday night (Aug. 23) at The Red Mile.
Svanstedt, Captain Corey still teaming for stakes success
Five years ago to the week, trotter Captain Corey and horseman Åke Svanstedt teamed to win the Earl Beal Trot up the road from Harrah’s Philadelphia at Pocono Downs. Five years on and the pair are still teaming for winner’s circle visits, as now-sire Captain Corey and trainer-driver Svanstedt combined to win the two divisions of the fourth and final preliminary leg of Pennsylvania Sire Stakes for freshman male trotters on Sunday (Aug. 23) at Philly, which offered $170,842 between the two PaSS divisions and three sections of the PA Stallion Series.
Savage Cindy, Surreal Spirit get NYSS wins at Tioga
Tioga Downs played host to two divisions of the New York Sire Stakes (NYSS) for sophomore pacing fillies on Sunday (Aug. 23).
Two Fold Cold repeats in Hight Memorial
The excitement along Maine’s fabled fairground circuit reached a crescendo point on Saturday (Aug. 22) as the “big horses” came to the historic mid-Maine racing venue for the always anticipated renewal of the $12,000 Walter Hight Memorial Invitational.
Frosh pacers close out Skowhegan
In the final day of Maine Sire Stakes racing at the Skowhegan State Fair on Saturday (Aug. 22) freshman star The Gucci Man was the talk of the town as he took his division in a new 1:58.4 track record for 2-year-old colt pacers.
Box remains open for Signature Series Trot at Woodsfield (OH)
The Darrol Byers Signature Series Trot at the Monroe (Woodsfield) Co. Fair did not fill. The box will remain open until 11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 24.
A big weekend for harness racing across Europe
It was a major racing weekend in Europe, with big events in France, Sweden, and Finland.
Lisa Dunn honored as PA Fair Circuit stops in Meadville
The Pennsylvania Fair Circuit ended a marathon week in the northwest portion of the state, at the Crawford County Fairgrounds in Meadville, for two days of Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes competition on Friday (Aug. 21) and Saturday (Aug. 22).