The fifth leg of the Ohio Sires Stakes for 3-year-old colt and gelding pacers was contested on Wednesday (August 27) at MGM Northfield Park.
Author: by Michael Carter, for MGM Northfield Park
Pandy’s Meadowlands selections for Aug. 29
Handicapper Bob Pandolfo offers his selections for the full card at the Meadowlands on Friday night (Aug. 29).
Michigan Sire Stakes contested at Barry Expo Center (MI)
Northville Downs at Barry Expo Center in Hastings, Michigan held the Michigan Sire Stakes Finals on Wednesday afternoon (Aug 27) and they did not disappoint.
Sharp Seven was on point in NYSS at Batavia
The New York Sire Stakes visited Batavia Downs on Wednesday (Aug. 27) night with nine 2-year-old trotting fillies competing for a $112,100 purse and the heavily favored Sharp Seven (Chapter Seven-Lookin’ Sharp) cut to the chase for her victory in the featured event.
Big weekend for Grand Circuit action
Nineteen Grand Circuit events took place this past weekend, with races all over North America contested.
Bicc’s Tobee from start to finish in the Margareta Wallenius-Klebergs Pokal at Solvalla
$155,000 was the purse for the winner, Bicc’s Tobee, trained by Maria Törnqvist and driven by Dwight Pieters in the prestigious Margareta Wallenius-Klebergs Pokal – formerly known as the Jubileumspokalen – a Group 1 race for 5-year-old trotters.
Adamczyk rolls to Monticello NAADA win
Andrew Adamczyk stormed for the lead up the backstretch with even-money chalk Backstreet Player and won going away in a 2:01.1 mile over a sloppy track to take the $7,500 North American Amateur Drivers Association (NAADA) Trot at Monticello Raceway on Wednesday (Aug. 20).
Birkhold, Brewer, and Johnson win in Spring Haven Farm Ladies Driving Series
The Spring Haven Farm Ladies Driving Series recently visited the Henry County Fair in Napoleon, OH, the Allen County Fair in Lima, OH, and the Defiance County Fair in Hicksville, OH with Mary Birkhold, Bobbie Jo Brewer and Christina Johnson recording wins.
Miracle Maven, Martz Seven score stakes wins at Hoosier
Sophomore trotting fillies took to the track at Harrah’s Hoosier Park with a pair of $49,000 splits for the sixth leg of Indiana Sire Stakes where Miracle Maven and Martz Seven got back in the win column on Wednesday (Aug. 20).
Freshman faster than sophomores at Meadville (PA)
The Pennsylvania fair circuit returned to the Crawford County Fairgrounds in this northwest Pennsylvania city on Saturday (August 16) and Sunday (August 17), and perhaps it was the warmer weather and better surface. Still, the two-year-olds that opened the weekend generated the quickest miles on both their gaits for the two-day stand.