Upon its inauguration in 2020, the Mohawk Million, and it’s elder, yet equally renowned companion contest the Metro Pace (first run in 1988), have worked in tandem to spotlight Standardbred racing’s next wave of superstars. The prestigious pair of million-dollar tilts for 2-year-old trotters and pacers, respectively, returns to Mohawk on Saturday (Sept. 21) with a special 6:30 p.m. post time, as part of a dynamic card that includes five stakes finals.
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LBJ hopeful ‘Zane’ a special horse to Saunders family
John Saunders knows the thrill of being the captain of a Yale football team that beat Harvard in The Game. On Thursday, the Ohio native will look to tackle The Jug. Saunders, whose family’s involvement in harness racing dates to the 1940s and his Ohio Hall of Fame-inducted great-uncle C.M. Saunders, owns Little Brown Jug hopeful Rose Run Zane with his wife, Leann.
Periculum headlines Caesars Trotting Classic field
The fields were drawn Tuesday (Sept. 17) for two of Harrah’s Hoosier Park’s signature events, the $165,000 Harrah’s Hoosier Park Pacing Derby and $200,000 Caesars Trotting Classic presented by Kountry Lane Standardbreds, both of which will take place Friday (Sept. 20). Two full fields of 10 will go postward, with Periculum tabbed as the morning-line favorite in the Caesars Trotting Classic and Little Rocket Man enlisted as the early choice in the Pacing Derby.
Dandy’s Mercy a homebred delight
If coming up with a horse like Dandy’s Mercy was akin to catching lightning in a bottle, it’s because the flash has extended to the filly’s performance on the racetrack. Dandy’s Mercy, the 5-2 morning-line favorite in the first of Wednesday’s two eliminations of the $310,000 Jugette for 3-year-old female pacers at the Delaware County Fairgrounds in central Ohio, has finished worse than second only twice in 18 career races, winning nine.
Stablemates headline 79th Little Brown Jug
Nijinsky and Legendary Hanover headline a field of 14 in the $625,000 Little Brown Jug on Thursday (Sept. 19) at the Delaware County Fair.
Twelve enter $312,000 Jugette
Twelve three-year-filly pacers entered the 54th Jugette to be raced on Wednesday (September 18) at the Delaware County Fair forcing two eliminations.
Two fillies are supplemented to the Jugette
The connections of two fillies have made the supplemental payment and will be racing in Wednesday’s (Sept. 18) Jugette for sophomore pacers at the Delaware County Fair.
Grand Circuit to Hoosier and Mohawk
Grand Circuit action will commence on Friday (Sept. 13) at Harrah’s Hoosier Park with the $390,000 Peter Haughton Memorial for 2-year-old trotting males and the $305,000 Jim Doherty Memorial for 2-year-old trotting fillies.
Wiesmans look forward to big weekend
For Colby Wiesman and his dad, Jon, the next three days will be collectively unlike any they experienced before. On Friday, the Wiesmans will watch Delaney Hanover compete in the $305,000 Jim Doherty Memorial for 2-year-old female trotters at Harrah’s Hoosier Park. The next day, they will turn their attention north of the border to watch Caballero in a C$40,000 elimination of the Canadian Trotting Classic for 3-year-old male trotters at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Then they will cap their weekend by watching Go Dog Go race in the $400,000 Kentucky Sire Stakes Championship Series final for 2-year-old male trotters at Lexington’s Red Mile.
Maryland favored in Hoosier’s Peter Haughton Memorial
More often than not, Anders Ström’s Courant Inc. is the sole owner of the yearlings he buys. But when it came to 2-year-old male trotter Maryland, Ström decided the more, the merrier. And after watching the Marcus Melander-trained Maryland romp to victory in the $425,500 William Wellwood Memorial last month at Woodbine Mohawk Park, the colt’s ownership group has ample reason to feel good as Maryland heads to Friday’s $390,000 Peter Haughton Memorial for freshman male trotters at Harrah’s Hoosier Park.