With perfect weather of warm afternoons and sunshine, this past week in Lexington began on Friday with Grade 3 International Stallion Stakes events for 2-year old pacing fillies and colt trotters.
Author: by Judy Davis-Wilson, for the Grand Circuit
USTA Roadster Off-Track Series final on Friday
The USTA Roadster Off-Track Series final will be held at the Tri-State Classic Horse Show in Cleveland, Tenn., on Friday (Oct. 10).
Winner’s Circle pedigree, inspection update
Updated pedigrees for yearlings selling at the Winner’s Circle Speed Sale, which will take place Thursday (Oct. 9) in Lansing, Mich., are now available online.
Better Gon stays undefeated in Maryland stakes final
Frederick Weitz Jr.’s Better Gon kept his undefeated record intact with a lifetime-best 1:54.1 win in the Wayne Smullin Memorial, for 2-year-old male pacers, one of four $95,000 Maryland Sire Stakes fall series championship events held Monday (Oct. 6) at Rosecroft Raceway.
Loua Dipa smashes sister’s world record at Red Mile
Loua Dipa, a full-sister to world champion Looksgoodinloulou, demolished the world record for 2-year-old pacing fillies when muscling under wraps to a 1:48 victory in the second of three divisions for the $214,000 International Stallion Stakes for freshman pacing fillies – a division named “The Stockade Seelster” sponsored by Cornerstone Stock Farm – on Friday (Oct. 3) at The Red Mile.
Louprint looks to stay unbeaten on Futurity Day
The sensational season for Team Burke’s homegrown stock looks to continue alongside the tremendous campaign of their homebred Sweet Lou colt Louprint, a winner of all nine of his races this season, including the Grade 1 North America Cup and Grade 1 Little Brown Jug, in the second of two divisions for the $440,000 Grade 2 Tattersalls Pace – sponsored by Cameo Hills Farm – on the Kentucky Futurity undercard Sunday (Oct. 5) at The Red Mile.
Travel Nurse looks for repeat BSS title at Northfield
Travel Nurse will vie for a second straight Buckeye Stallion Series championship when MGM Northfield Park hosts four $75,000 divisions of trotters in the 2025 BSS finals on Saturday (Oct. 4).
Twin B High Tide, Hunka Hunka highlight pacers in BSS finals
MGM Northfield Park is hosting the 2025 Buckeye Stallion Series finals on Saturday (Oct. 4) with eight $75,000 divisions. Twin B High Tide and Hunka Hunka enter as standouts among the entries in the four divisions of pacers.
OHHA to livestream races from Montgomery County Fair
The Ohio Harness Horsemen’s Association (OHHA) will continue its 2025 Ohio county fair racing season with livestreaming coverage from the Montgomery County Fair at Hollywood Gaming Dayton Raceway on Sunday (Oct. 5).
Bangor Raceway to open fall meet with Maine Sire Stakes championships
Following a month-long fairground frolic, Maine’s harness racing circuit will once again transition to commercial track status with Bangor Raceway set to launch its much anticipated extended fall meet beginning on Wednesday, Oct. 8.