Shenandoah Downs, which enters weekend number two of its seven-week fall harness racing season, will host a round of Virginia Sire Stakes races for the first time ever – for 2-year-olds – on both Saturday and Sunday.
Author: by Darrell Wood, for Shenandoah Downs
Big weekend set for Running Aces
Running Aces is set and ready for a big weekend of harness racing to close out its 2025 season.
Faraldo, Adamczyk score in Yonkers NAADA trots
Joe Faraldo prevailed with a first-up push, as did Andrew Adamczyk later in the card, to win their respective divisions of the North American Amateur Drivers Association (NAADA) trots at MGM Yonkers Raceway on Thursday night (Sept. 18).
Maine’s undefeated Snowonthepines gets eighth win
The two divisions of the Maine Sire Stakes for 2-year-old pacing fillies closed out the Farmington Fair on Thursday (Sept. 18), with the undefeated filly phenom Snowonthepines wrapping up her successful tour of the Pine Tree State summer circuit.
$100,000 in guaranteed wagers Friday at Hoosier
To go along with nearly $1.5 million in purse money up for grabs on the Caesars Trotting Classic card at Harrah’s Hoosier Park on Friday (Sept. 19), bettors will have plenty to take aim at as well with a total of $100,000 in guaranteed wagers throughout the 14-race program.
Ragtime Red rolls in Rosecroft return
David Banks’ homebred Ragtime Red extended her win streak to six with a lifetime-best 1:51.2 effort in Thursday’s (Sept. 18) $12,000 Fillies and Mares Open Handicap Pace at Rosecroft Raceway.
Fly High Cruiser soars in BSS action on Jug Day at Delaware
Fly High Cruiser scored his third Buckeye Stallion Series win of the season on Thursday (Sept. 18) as the Delaware County Fair hosted eight $20,000 divisions of the fifth leg of the BSS for sophomore pacers in the 20-race Jug Day card to conclude the five-day meet in Delaware, Ohio. The card included five divisions of male pacers and three divisions of filly pacers.
Little Instigator fights to victory at Tioga
Little Instigator took Thursday’s (Sept. 18) featured $9,500 conditioned pace for the ladies at Tioga Downs, but not without a fight.
Rodeo Drive Deo wins 55th Jugette
Rodeo Drive Deo and driver David Miller won the 55th edition of the Jugette, for 3-year-old female pacers, capturing the $280,000 final by 4-1/2 lengths in 1:50.1 on Wednesday at the Delaware County Fairgrounds. Odds On Chesapeake finished second, followed by Rose and Odds On Hialeah.
Yo Tillie takes No. 1 spot in Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown poll
Kentucky Sire Stakes Championship Series winner Yo Tillie took over the No. 1 spot in the Week 14 edition of the Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown poll released Wednesday while MGM Yonkers International Trot winner Lexus Kody vaulted into the Top 10.