Grand Circuit action this weekend takes place at The Meadows and Meadowlands Racetrack.
Category: GC_News
Ageless Arch Madness among 15 trotters in Cashman Memorial
Arch Madness wasn’t ill, but a victory in a conditioned handicap at Harrah’s Philadelphia last week might have been just what the doctor ordered. Now the 10-year-old gelding is returning to competition against the continent’s best older trotters as he heads to Saturday’s eliminations for the John Cashman Jr. Memorial at the Meadowlands.
Shake It Cerry leads 11 into Hambletonian Oaks
Defending Dan Patch Award winner Shake It Cerry heads up 11 sophomore trotting fillies in the $500,000 Hambletonian Oaks. The field will go straight to the final, to be raced on Hambletonian Day (August 2) at Meadowlands Racetrack.
Posts drawn, morning line set for Delvin Miller Adios
McWicked, projected as the favorite for Saturday’s $400,000 final of the Delvin Miller Adios Pace for the Orchids Presented by Coors Lite at The Meadows, didn’t hurt his chances when he pulled post position two in Tuesday’s draw.
Burke duo leads 17 into Merrie Annabelle elims
Ron Burke says there will be times when 2-year-old filly trotter Mission Brief makes him exclaim with awe, “Oh my God, look what she did.” He also says it’s possible he will mutter the same phrase in disappointment.
Adios draw set for Tuesday in Meadows’ winner’s circle
An open draw for post positions for the $400,000 (est.) final of the Delvin Miller Adios Pace for the Orchids Presented by Coors Light is set for Tuesday (July 22) at 12:30 p.m. in The Meadows’ winner’s circle.
The Road to Prix D’Ete 2014
Hippodrome 3R, in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, will be hosting the richest event for 4-year-old pacers in North American harness racing on Sunday afternoon (Sept. 21), the Prix d’Ete, reviving Quebec’s most famous historical stakes race.
Camerons looking forward to racing their Cammikey in Adios
For Wendy Cameron and her 88-year-old mom Nan, this Saturday at The Meadows in western Pennsylvania will be akin to Pittsburgh parents watching their son play for the Pirates in the World Series at PNC Park or their daughter put on a theatre performance at prestigious Heinz Hall. The Camerons’ horse, Cammikey, will be racing in the eliminations for the Delvin Miller Adios Pace for the Orchids Presented by Coors Lite at The Meadows on Saturday.
Cammikey to take his best shot at Adios orchids
When Cammikey won a PA Sires Stake division at The Meadows on June 7, he showed both the promise and the peril associated with this 3-year-old colt.
In The Arsenal looks to have the right weapons for Sheppard final
It wasn’t exactly in the cards for White Birch Farms to be racing In The Arsenal, but after capturing his $25,000 Lawrence B. Sheppard elimination at Yonkers Raceway on July 12, in front running fashion, they have to feel vindicated after the colt came home from last year’s Harrisburg Sale rather than being in someone else’s barn.