Leading driver Trace Tetrick was on top of his game Friday (Aug. 30) night at Harrah’s Hoosier Park, winning six of 13 on the card headlined by a win in Indiana Sire Stakes for two-year-old pacing colts with Hopeyaliketheshow. There was fun for all ages on the card as The Family Man closed from the clouds to take the second stakes division for rookies, while the classy eight-year-old Little Rocket Man romped in the Open Pace.
Author: by Jacob Rheinheimer, for Harrah's Hoosier Park
Aged Sires Stakes Championship held at Scioto Downs
Four divisions of the $85,000 Ohio Sires Stakes Veterans Championships were held at Eldorado Scioto Downs on Friday (August 30).
Keeper Of Secrets, Curry Hanover take Batavia features
A pair of $10,000 conditioned trots topped the card at Batavia Downs on Friday (Aug. 30) night and both winners were heavily backed at the windows.
Green Pastures sprints home, takes Pocono feature
Green Pastures got to set a dawdling pace, was aided when the challenging favorite broke, and then came home in :27.2 to win the $15,000 featured trot in 1:55.3 on Sunday (August 25) evening at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.
Karl rolls, Louprint shows his class at The Red Mile
It is not the Fourth of July but there were definitely some fireworks at The Red Mile on Sunday (Aug. 25). Freshman male pacer Louprint lit the match by soundly defeating the fastest 2-year-old in history in the $80,000 third leg of the Kentucky Sire Stakes Championship Series. Karl followed up that impressive score with one of his own by establishing a new lifetime mark of 1:50.2 in his division of the same series.
Woodbine Mohawk Park announces Pop Up Series
The Woodbine Mohawk Park Race Office has announced three new Pop-Up Series for the next few weeks of racing.
Sire Stakes spurs multiple winners at Philly
Two-year-old pacing males provided spirited racing at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Sunday afternoon (August 25) as they battled for points and a high place in the standings in the last preliminary round of their Pennsylvania Sire Stakes and Stallion Series before their rich early September Championships.
Pacers shine in Empire Breeders Classic
Tioga Downs played host to four Empire Breeders Classic (EBC) races for 3-year-old pacers (two filly divisions and two colt & gelding divisions) on Sunday (August 25) at Tioga Downs.
Francesco Zet impresses with a victory in world record time
Stald Zet’s Francesco Zet, with Ôrjan Kihlström in the sulky, delivered a strong performance by winning the Sundsvall Open Trot at Bergsaker.
New victors score in Ohio Sires Stakes action
The fourth leg of the Ohio Sires Stakes for sophomore colt pacers was anyone’s to take on Saturday night (Aug. 24) at MGM Northfield Park. Both $65,000 divisions went down to the final strides. Outer Banks and Paris’s Dragon scored OSS victories for the first time this year.