When you are good, you are good! When you are hot, you are hot! A pair of 5-year-old pacers, Hal N Sammy and Danikova, fit both clichés to a T on Friday night (Jan. 24) winning their respective lucrative championships in the first pair of finals in the popular Claim To Fame series currently underway at Miami Valley Raceway. Both swept their series undefeated by winning a pair of preliminary legs leading up to the final.
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Robyn Camden wins Friday distaff feature at Yonkers
A season-debuting Robyn Camden (Jim Marohn Jr., $11) proved best Friday night (Jan. 24), winning Yonkers Raceway’s $35,000 Filly and Mare Preferred Handicap Pace.
Odds On St Lucie takes feature, five for Callahan at Big M
Odds On St Lucie gave driver Vinny Ginsburg quite a workout Friday night (Jan. 24) at The Meadowlands. And that was just in the post parade. Odds On St Lucie saw her two-race win streak end last week at the hands of odds-on favorite Major Occasion A, but got back on the winning track Friday by beating a top-flight field in 1:50.2.
Anthony Stellone Jr., 73, dies
Anthony J. “Tony” Stellone Jr., 73, of Clifton Park, N.Y., died Jan. 18, 2020.
New Jersey Sire Stakes to feature four new races
The Board of Trustees of the New Jersey Sire Stakes has announced that it will institute four new events for 4-year-old trotters and pacers beginning in the spring of 2020. The new races, called the New Jersey Breeders’ Maturity, will be open to all horses that were nominated as yearlings to either the New Jersey Sire Stakes Premier Division or the New Jersey Standardbred Development Fund.
Mister Spot A springs 14-1 upset in Meadows feature
Mister Spot A pounced on the weary leaders to spring a 14-1 upset in Friday’s (Jan. 24) feature at The Meadows, a $13,500 conditioned pace.
Dot Dot Dot Dash wins Freehold Preferred Trot
A change of tactics and a great trip proved the keys for Dot Dot Dot Dash, as the veteran mare won Freehold Raceway’s Preferred Handicap Trot on Friday (Jan. 24).
Shelly Goudreau final lures contentious field at Cal Expo
Bunkerhill Bill and China King, winners of their respective eliminations last week, head the cast for Saturday night’s (Jan. 25) featured $8,700 Shelly Goudreau final at Cal Expo.
Focus on Mohawk Million and rookie trots as deadline nears
Woodbine Entertainment management is reminding all interested parties of its upcoming stakes nomination deadline on Feb. 18, with a focus on the Mohawk Million and its major 2-year-old trotting events.
Mohawk Park cancels Saturday training
Woodbine Mohawk Park management would like to inform all horsepeople that training has been cancelled for Saturday morning (Jan. 25) due to expected heavy rain and snow.