Showboat Shooting, with driver/trainer Lauren Harmon in tow, left hard and never looked back en route to a 1:57.2 victory in Tuesday’s (Sept. 8) $9,000 conditioned pacing feature at Northville Downs at the Barry Expo.
Author: by Ken Terpenning, for Northville Downs at the Barry Expo Center
Hoof Beats: Ardent Advocate
When it comes to how Andy Roberts, DVM, feels about the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA), the USTA director and treasurer not only talks the talk but walks the walk.
Open Mike: Baffling Biology
Occasionally, a story lands on the front page or drifts into your news feed, and you get that strange feeling that you’ve been here before. Not the details — they’re always different — but the questions underneath them. It’s like hearing an old song played in a new key. You find yourself momentarily paused, shaking your head a little and thinking, I know this story. I’ve seen it before, just in a place nobody would have expected.
Tyler Miller ‘crushes’ Philly competition
Tyler Miller spent much of his spring and early summer in Kentucky, racing at Oak Grove and the local fairs with an occasional trip back east, but now he is concentrating on the Mid-Atlantic states – and he made an impact at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Thursday (Sept. 3) by winning both trotting features with “Team Orange Crush” horses.
Batavia Downs gears up for Labor Day weekend
Labor Day traditionally marks the end of the summer season, and Batavia Downs is planning on helping it go out with a bang with a full slate of racing and activities scheduled all weekend.
Freshman features close Pocono racing week
With the 2-year-olds in the spotlight this coming week at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, contesting $1.4 million in Pennsylvania Sire Stakes championships and consolations on Monday afternoon (Sept. 7), it seems appropriate that the end of this week’s local racing on Tuesday (Sept. 1) featured freshmen, in three $16,000 contests.
Jett Propelled continues banner 2026
Bob Shahan’s Jett Propelled ($4.40, Jason Thompson) continued her stellar 2026 season with a 1:55.1 triumph in the $22,500 Mares Open Pace on Tuesday (Sept. 1) at Harrington Raceway.
Big day at Plainridge for Beckwith, Robinson
Plainridge Park hosted an outstanding card of racing on Tuesday (Sept. 1), and the inclement weather that was present throughout failed to dissuade the racing participants from putting forth some very impressive performances.
Unusual Clarity wins Vernon feature
Unusual Clarity (Ron Harp) captured the $5,500 featured fillies and mares pace at Vernon Downs on Thursday (Aug. 27).
Shes A Home Run sets track record in Meadows PASS
Hollywood Casino at The Meadows presented a pair of Pennsylvania Sire Stakes divisions for 2-year-old trotting fillies, dubbed the Delmonica Hanover, as well as two Stallion Series splits for the same grouping on its Thursday (Aug. 27) card.