Woodbine Entertainment management has announced changes for the 2024 Mohawk Million. Following a review of the Mohawk Million format, Woodbine has reduced the price of purchasing a slot in the race for 2-year-old trotters from C$100,000 to C$50,000 and will offer all 10 slots in the race for purchase.
Category: Grand Circuit News
Metro Pace returns to C$1 million purse for 2024
Woodbine Entertainment management has announced that the 2024 Metro Pace for 2-year-old pacers will have a guaranteed purse of C$1 million. The 2024 Metro Pace, to be held on Saturday (Sept. 21) at Woodbine Mohawk Park, will be the 13th edition to have a purse of C$1 million and the first since 2012.
Breeders Crown back at Big M in 2024
The Hambletonian Society announced Wednesday night that the Breeders Crown will be contested at The Meadowlands in October of next year.
2023 O’Brien Awards finalists announced
Standardbred Canada is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2023 O’Brien Awards, honoring Canada’s best in harness racing over the past season.
Gingras, Burke and Diamond Creek Racing finish on top of 2023 Grand Circuit standings
Driver Yannick Gingras, trainer Ron Burke and owner Diamond Creek Racing finished on top of the 2023 Grand Circuit standings.
A heavyweight rematch a decade in the making
Tim Tetrick heads into the FanDuel Open Pace on Saturday (Nov. 25) at The Meadowlands with a rare and legitimate shot at making harness racing history. Yannick Gingras has every intention of playing the spoiler. While there’s a distinct element of rarity in these stars that aligned to pit these two Hall of Fame drivers against each other, the circumstances are not unique.
Tactical Approach set for FanDuel challenge
Two 3-year-olds have defeated older rivals in the history of the FanDuel (formerly TVG) Championships at The Meadowlands. On Saturday, one of those winners’ sons will look to duplicate the accomplishment. Three-year-old colt Tactical Approach will take on six older male foes in the FanDuel Open Trot Championship at the Big M. His sire, Tactical Landing, won the event in 2018, when another 3-year-old, Six Pack, finished second.
Maxim Hanover hopes to continue winning ways in Governor’s Cup
The connections of Maxim Hanover hoped to see their 2-year-old male pacer develop as this season progressed, and after watching the colt win four of his past five races, it looks as though the plan is coming to fruition. Maxim Hanover, who had three second-place finishes among six winless starts to begin his career, captured the Matron Stakes on Nov. 2 and heads to Saturday’s $454,000 Governor’s Cup final for freshman male pacers at The Meadowlands off a lifetime-best-equaling 1:52 victory in one of last week’s two eliminations.
Grand Circuit season wraps up this week
The Grand Circuit returns to Dover Downs this Wednesday (Nov. 22) for the $260,000 Progress Pace final for 3-year-old open pacers.
Top sophomores entered in FanDuel Championships
When the FanDuel Championships (formerly known as the TVG) were founded in 2013, Jeff Gural’s vision was a year-end race that would provide a stage for the top 3-year-olds to end their season by facing the best older horses, much as the Thoroughbred racing has done with the Breeders’ Cup Classic.