Sombaro Montae went right to the front from post position six and was never caught in capturing the $46,304 Fox Stake for 2-year-old pacers on Thursday night (Aug. 20) at the Indiana State Fair.
Category: GC_Results
Trio of Grand Circuit stakes contested on Tuesday at Springfield
Grand Circuit racing continued on Tuesday (Aug. 18) at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield with a trio of Review Stakes for 3-year-olds.
Trot Commander, Bs Tyrrific win Review Stakes at Springfield
Grand Circuit racing commenced on Monday (Aug. 17) at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield with a pair of Review Stakes for 2-year-olds.
Empire Breeders Classic elims, Tompkins-Geers headline all-stakes card at Tioga
Sixteen stakes events comprised Sunday (Aug. 16) afternoon’s card at Tioga Downs, and while In The Arsenal ($3.50) and Divine Caroline ($6.90) punched their tickets for next week’s Empire Breeders Classic finals by way of sub-1:50 miles, it was 2-year-old trotter Jack Vernon ($3.40) who stole the show with a 1:53.3 effort in his Tompkins-Geers Memorial division.
Revenge Shark prevails in sophomore Tompkins-Geers
Sunday afternoon’s program at Tioga Downs was headlined by a sextet of Tompkins-Geers Stakes for 2- and 3-year-old pacers, with six different drivers and five different trainers prevailing in the races worth a combined $246,930 in purses.
Pinkman defeats Mission Brief to win the Hambletonian
Pinkman and Brian Sears, who got the drive on the horse less than an hour before the race, took control of the $1 million Hambletonian for 3-year-olds at the half and never gave it up as they cruised under the wire to be the 90th winners of the trotting classic in a world record time of 1:51 on Saturday at Meadowlands Racetrack.
Wild Honey is in control in 1:52.2 Oaks triumph
Wild Honey came up big in the Hambletonian Oaks. Driver Yannick Gingras and trainer Jimmy Takter teamed up to win the $500,000 Hambletonian Oaks for the second consecutive year as Wild Honey captured the race for 3-year-old female trotters by 1-3/4 lengths over Rules Of The Road in 1:52.2 on Saturday at Meadowlands Racetrack.
Dealt A Winner captures Cane Pace in world record 1:47.3; Stacia Hanover wins Shady Daisy
Dealt A Winner (David Miller) dealt his backers a huge payoff when the 26-1 longshot paced across the wire to win the $319,400 Cane Pace for 3-year-old pacing males on Saturday at The Meadowlands in 1:47.3, a stakes record and world record for 3-year-old pacing geldings on a mile track.
Southwind Frank is an impressive winner in Peter Haughton Memorial
Southwind Frank took the lead at the halfway point and was never threatened the rest of the way as he won Saturday’s (Aug. 8) $349,850 Peter Haughton Memorial for 2-year-old male trotters by 2-1/4 lengths over Brooklyn Hill in 1:53.4.
D’One captures North American debut in Fresh Yankee
D’One was the one in the $181,450 Fresh Yankee for trotting mares on Saturday (Aug. 8) at The Meadowlands, charging down the center of the track to overtake Bee A Magician in the final strides to win the 1-1/8 mile contest by a length.