Dan Patch Award winner Joviality S is back in Sweden, where she raced for the first time Friday night (April 21) in a qualification for the million-krona race, The Queens Price at Aby.
Author: by Karsten Bønsdorf, USTA Senior Newsroom Correspondent
Princess Rougarou crowned in Mares Open at Northville
With a patient drive by Justin Irvine, Princess Rougarou circled the field to take the throne in the Northville Downs featured $10,800 Mares Open Pace Friday night (April 21).
Sheridan strikes again in AHDC
Yogi Sheridan once again snagged top billing in the $9,000 American Harness Drivers Club Pace, but on Friday (April 21) the victory did not come as simply as a pillar-to-post job.
John Murray Dailey, 91, dies
John Murray Dailey, 91, died April 1, 2023.
Brennan talks milestone, Borgata and Matchmaker
George Brennan was 14 when he drove a horse to a paycheck for the first time. The teenager, making his only start of 1981, steered Myron’s Bunny to a fifth-place finish in an amateur race, with the trotter collecting $50 in purse money. Brennan has accumulated — since that initial $50 start — nearly $199.7 million in purses as he prepares for the first Grand Circuit finals of the season Monday (April 24) at MGM Yonkers Raceway.
Stars to shine on Saturday in New Jersey Breeders Maturity at Big M
Some of harness racing’s top 3-year-olds of last season — Treacherous Dragon, Niki Hill, Bythemissal, Fashion Schooner, and Pretender — will begin their 4-year-old campaigns Saturday (April 22) in the first of two weekends of New Jersey Breeders Maturity races for pacers and trotters at The Meadowlands.
Northern Storm tops Greg Luther Racing consignment at onGait.com
Northern Storm p,3,1:49.4, led the Day 1 Greg Luther Racing consignment at onGait.com when she sold on Friday for $53,500 to Jason Brewer of Ohio.
Shenandoah Downs’ $25,000 Blue Ridge and Allegheny Opens set for Saturday
Shenandoah Downs will host its two biggest races of the spring season on Saturday (April 22) — the $25,000 Blue Ridge Open Pace and $25,000 Allegheny Open Trot — in conjunction with an “Up & Coming Drivers Challenge” for reinsmen ages 18-26.
Alagna Armada poised for Oak Grove stakes
I Did It Myway and Boudoir Hanover, top-three finishers in the Breeders Crown in their 3-year-old season, are poised to kick off their 2023 campaigns on a high note in the first round of the Kentucky Standardbred Development Fund series for 4-year-olds, which opens Sunday (April 23) at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel. Both pacers — two of trainer Tony Alagna’s nine stakes starters on the program — have been named the morning line favorites in their respective $50,000 events.
Notice for horsemen shipping to Oak Grove
Attention horsemen: If you are bringing horses onto the Oak Grove property, it is required by the state of Kentucky that they have a current EIA (Coggins) test dated within the last 12 months and a health paper for each animal entering.