Author: by Yonkers Racing Media

Bythemissal and driver Yannick Gingras bounced back from a narrow defeat in the Canadian Pacing Derby seven days ago to dominate in the $250,000 Aria Inviational Pace, a co-feature of MGM Yonkers Raceway’s International Day program, winning the mile and one-quarter event in a track record 2:21.2 clocking.

George Napolitano Jr. dominated the action on Saturday afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. On a 13-race Saturday (Sept. 9) program, Napolitano drove seven winners.

So Amazing (Steeven Genois) captured the $6,500 featured fillies & mares’ pace on Friday (September 8). 

Harness racing’s Red Mile begins it’s Sunday-Monday-Tuesday week with an octet of stakes events on Sunday (Sept. 10), highlighted by a pair of $80,000 Kentucky Sire Stakes Championship Series events.

It’s been a long time coming. After a one-year hiatus, harness racing returns to Hawthorne Racecourse Saturday (Sept. 9), the opening night program of its 2023 Standardbred racing season.

The Heartland Standardbred Sale, to be held Tuesday (Sept. 19) in Cannon Falls, MN already has a record number of consignments. Though the sale historically specializes in Minnesota-bred babies, yearlings eligible to jurisdictions all over the country are catalogued and will be in the ring come the 19th.

Sophomore trotting filly Tactical Mounds went the distance and sophomore trotting colt Air Power muscled through to take their respective $275,000 finals of the New Jersey Classic on Friday night (Sept. 8) at The Meadowlands.

Val D’Or Farms’ Newsroom made yet another headline in the $150,000 New Jersey Classic final for 2-year-old pacing colts and geldings, coasting to a 1:49.4 lifetime best win — his fifth in as many starts to date — on Friday (Sept. 8) at The Meadowlands.

Soiree Hanover (Walner-Spring Gala) upset her foes and favorite Sig Sauer commanded his field as each won a New Jersey Classic Final for their divisions Friday night (Sept. 8), at The Meadowlands.