The weekend started on Saturday afternoon at The Meadows with the “Grade 1” Adios eliminations and the Arden Downs for 2-year-old colt and gelding pacers. Saturday night the action went to The Meadowlands for four, 3-year-old Tompkins-Geers events and up at the Spa in Saratoga for the “Grade 2” Joe Gerrity Memorial for Aged pacers.
Category: Grand Circuit News
Beckwith hopes to win his family’s namesake race on Spirit Sunday
Brett Beckwith won 608 races and $6.27 million in purse money last year and is on pace to surpass those numbers this season. But the one win he would like to have above all the rest would be in the race named for his grandfather.
Ryder happy with Twin B Joe Fresh heading into Clara Barton
Twin B Joe Fresh, the 2024 Dan Patch Horse of the Year, will be making her first-ever appearance in Massachusetts on Sunday (July 20) when she ships to Plainridge Park to start in the $100,000 Grade 3 Clara Barton Distaff Pace.
Melander enters a powerful pair in Spirit of Massachusetts Trot
Trainer Marcus Melander is bringing a major one-two punch to the G2 $250,000 Spirit of Massachusetts Trot at Plainridge Park on Sunday (July 20). Millionaires Periculum and Aetos Kronos S have been entered in the eighth edition of The Spirit and both have been a force in the older Open trotting division so far this year.
Nine draw in to the Spirit of Massachusetts Trot on Sunday at Plainridge Park
A full field of nine top Open trotters drew in for the eighth edition of the G2 $250,000 Spirit of Massachusetts Trot to be held at Plainridge Park on Sunday (July 20). Post time for the first race is 2 p.m.
Gio Cash joins the $1 million MGM Yonkers International Trot field
Always hard at work, Yonkers Raceway’s European talent scout Klaus Koch wasted no time in extending a second invitation to the Grade 1, $1 million MGM Yonkers International Trot following a sparkling performance by Gio Cash in Sweden.
Spirit of Massachusetts headlines Grand Circuit return to Plainridge
The Grand Circuit will make another stop in Massachusetts on Sunday (July 20) when Plainridge Park will host the eighth edition of the Grade 2 $250,000 Spirit of Massachusetts Trot along with the Grade 3 $100,000 Clara Barton Distaff Pace.
Enjoying every minute with Papis Pistol
Chris Arvanitis is not someone who gets easily excited, but this week has been a little bit different for the proprietor of a popular central New Jersey diner. Having a horse in the Meadowlands Pace can do that to a fella.
Wallin trainees set for Hambletonian, Oaks preps
After a delayed start on the Road to the Hambletonian, Maximus Mearas S will look to get into the fast lane Saturday when he makes his seasonal debut in a division of the Stanley Dancer Memorial for 3-year-old male trotters at The Meadowlands.
Updated field/morning line for Meadowlands Pace
In the wake of the news that original 7-5 morning-line favorite Louprint will be out of action for at least several weeks, this is now the field for the $656,000 Meadowlands Pace, an open event for 3-year-olds that takes place at The Meadowlands on Saturday, July 12, 2025, with post position, horse, driver, trainer and updated morning-line odds: