The top 2 & 3-year-old trotters and pacers in the sport of harness racing descended upon Hoosier Park Racing & Casino on Friday, October 31 to battle it out in search of the lucrative purses offered on the 14-race card as Grand Circuit racing action made its fourth and final stop at Hoosier Park this season.
Category: GC_Results
Rookies impress in Fall Four finals
The finest 2-year-olds in harness racing were on display Saturday night (Oct. 25) at Woodbine Racetrack for the Fall Four Stakes.
Natural Herbie wins International Trot Preview
In an already long race — at the nontraditional distance of 1-1/4 miles — Natural Herbie went even longer to win Saturday’s $250,000 International Trot Preview Invitational at Yonkers Raceway.
All Bets Off wires field in Messenger Stakes
All Bets Off went to the front as soon as the gate opened and never was challenged on his way to winning Saturday’s $500,000 Messenger Stakes for 3-year-old pacers at Yonkers Raceway.
Nuncio scores in 1:56 in Yonkers Trot
Nuncio won Saturday’s $500,000 Yonkers Trot for 3-year-olds at Yonkers Raceway, giving trainer Jimmy Takter a sweep of the Trotting Triple Crown.
Market Share, Clear Vision capture Hollywood Dayton stakes
The night was supposed to belong to Foiled Again and Creatine, but although each raced very creditably neither was able to capture a Grand Circuit Dayton Derby. Instead stablemate Clear Vision literally nosed out Foiled Again in the $122,000 Dayton Pacing Derby, lowering the track record to 1:49, and Market Share pulled a mild upset in the $162,000 Dayton Trotting Derby, establishing a new track trot standard with the 1:52.4 clocking.
Burke wins five on stakes filled card at Hoosier Park
Hoosier Park Racing & Casino played host to a stakes-filled card on Friday as Grand Circuit racing action made a stop at the seven-eighths-mile oval for the third time this season. The 14-race card was highlighted by divisions of the Circle City Stakes for 3-year-old trotters and pacers and it was Hoosier Park’s leading trainer, Ron Burke, who stole the show with five winners on the 14-race card.
Tomy Terror topples track record in Simpson
Tomy Terror took more than two seconds off the Vernon Downs track record for 2-year-old pacing geldings with his 1:50.2 effort in the John Simpson Memorial on Friday evening.
Thinking Out Loud nips Foiled Again in Am-Nat Open Pace
Thinking Out Loud scored a seasonal best 1:49.1 en route to capturing the $179,000 American-National Open Pace for driver John Campbell and trainer Robert McIntosh on Saturday at Balmoral Park.
JK Endofanera wires field in American-National pace
JK Endofanera paced confidently to victory in the $227,000 American-National Stake for 3-year-old pacing colts and geldings on Saturday at Balmoral Park, stopping the timer in 1:49.1 against nine rivals.