Judging by the performances of the fillies and mares competing in Saturday night’s eliminations for the Armbro Flight and Fan Hanover stakes at Woodbine Mohawk Park, their finals on the undercard of North America Cup night next Saturday should be very impressive.
Category: GC_Results
Formidable fab four flash fantastic form in Pepsi North America Cup elims
Christchurch, Fulton, It’s My Show and Confederate will arrive at next Saturday’s C$1 million Pepsi North America Cup for 3-year-old male pacers at Woodbine Mohawk Park in winning form after taking their respective C$50,000 eliminations on Saturday night (June 10).
Roses Are Red, Goodtimes eliminations complete
A pair of undercard stakes events for next Saturday’s cavalcade card, headlined by the C$1 million Pepsi North America Cup, now have their finalists determined. The Roses Are Red, for older pacing mares, and the Goodtimes, for trotting sophomores, each had two eliminations contested at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Friday night (June 9).
Graduate Series opens, Miss Versatility continues at Mohawk Park
On a card where many glamour boys got their tightening miles ahead of the $1-million Pepsi North America Cup, aged horses sparred in their own stakes as Woodbine Mohawk Park hosted the kickoff to the Graduate Series and the second leg of the Miss Versatility on Saturday (June 3) night.
Impressive trio in Somebeachsomewhere splits
Last year’s two-year-old pacing colt of the year, Stockade Seelster, and two colts from the first crop of Stay Hungry, Redwood Hanover and Annapolis Hanover, captured the three C$75,000 divisions of the Somebeachsomewhere stakes Saturday (June 3) evening at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
Ruthless Hanover breaks world record in Auger Memorial
George Napolitano Jr. floored the accelerator on Ruthless Hanover from race’s outset in the $100,000 Joseph Auger Memorial Invitational Pace, held Sunday (May 28) at Harrah’s Philadelphia, and the 6-year-old gelding responded with a 1:46.3 mile — the fastest ever on a five-eighths-mile track.
Hillexotic sets world record in Maxie Lee at Philadelphia
Yannick Gingras hoped to have Hillexotic add a little extra spice to Sunday’s $100,000 Maxie Lee Memorial Invitational for older trotters at Harrah’s Philadelphia, but settled for a world-record win. Six-year-old Hillexotic captured the Maxie Lee Memorial in 1:50.2, establishing the world record for a gelding trotter older than age 4.
Max Contract cascades to Betsy Ross upset
Finding herself shuffled to a joint last with a quarter-mile to go in a stacked field, it was a surprise that Max Contract shook free and rallied to a 19-1 upset in Sunday’s (May 28) Betsy Ross Mares Pace at Harrah’s Philadelphia to most everyone.
Covered Bridge Soars In Camluck Classic; So Much More Captures Forest City
Covered Bridge used a perfect covered trip to steamroll his way to victory in the C$150,000 Camluck Classic Invitational on Friday night at The Raceway at Western Fair District.
Venerate voluminous in Sears’ seventh Cutler win
Tab another victory in the Arthur J. Cutler Memorial for driver Brian Sears and another Grand Circuit trotting win for trainer Marcus Melander. The dynamic team of trotting overhauled an oversized field of 11 with new acquisition Venerate to take the $155,200 free-for-all event on Saturday night (May 20) at the Meadowlands.