Karl and T C I won their respective $100,000 Hambletonian eliminations with relative ease at the Meadowlands on Saturday night (July 27).
Category: Grand Circuit Results
Allegiant, Elista Hanover, R Melina win Oaks elims
The $500,000 Hambletonian Oaks now has its 10 finalists following three $50,000 eliminations on Saturday night (July 27) at the Meadowlands, from which Allegiant, Elista Hanover and R Melina clinched gold and post protection.
It’s Academic repeats in the Spirit of Massachusetts
After two of the best trotters in North America hooked up in an epic fourth quarter match race, It’s Academic successfully defended his title by winning his second straight $250,000 Spirit of Massachusetts Trot at Plainridge Park on Sunday (July 21) afternoon.
Elista Hanover ups win streak to nine in Big M’s ‘Geers’
Elista Hanover maintained her standing as the early favorite for the $500,000 Hambletonian Oaks on Aug. 3 with another powerhouse performance Saturday night (July 20) at The Meadowlands, taking the first of three $30,800 divisions of the Tompkins-Geers Stake for 3-year-old trotting fillies.
R Melina, French Champagne win in Del Miller Memorial
R Melina surged first-over while French Champagne fought on the lead to win their respective $125,000 divisions of the Del Miller Memorial at the Meadowlands on Saturday night (July 13).
Legendary Hanover sets stakes record in Meadowlands Pace
Legendary Hanover took the lead at the half-mile point of Saturday’s $650,000 Meadowlands Pace and dominated from there, drawing away in the stretch for a stakes-record 1:46.3 victory in the 48th edition of the one-mile event for 3-year-old pacers at the Meadowlands.
Caviart Belle, Its A Love Thing seize Silverman divisions
Caviart Belle won the $100,000 first division of the Jerry Silverman Memorial, for 3-year-old filly pacers, on Saturday (July 13) at the Meadowlands. Yannick Gingras drove the filly to a career-best 1:49 mile in the stakes event, formerly known as the Mistletoe Shalee. In the second $100,000 division, Its A Love Thing faced off against her top foe My Girl EJ and eight others and won it in 1:49.1 with James MacDonald in the bike.
Chapercraz conquers Hambletonian Maturity
Chapercraz and driver Yannick Gingras delivered a multi-move trip for a 2:05.2 win over 11 rivals in the $425,000 E.T. Gerry Jr. Hambletonian Maturity, for 4-year-old trotters over 1-1/8 miles, at the Meadowlands on Saturday (July 13).
Abuckabett Hanover bursts home a winner in William Haughton
Perched in second-over position by driver Dexter Dunn, Abuckabett Hanover lunged off his cover in a stretch sprint to overhaul pacesetter Voukefalas and win the $428,000 William Haughton Memorial, for older pacers, at the Meadowlands on Saturday night (July 13).
Sig Sauer stuns in Dancer; Karl, T C I both defeated
Prospective Hambletonian favorite Karl encountered a major bump in the road when Sig Sauer soared past him and posted a 65-1 upset in the first $135,000 division of the Stanley Dancer Memorial, for 3-year-old male trotters, at the Meadowlands on Saturday night (July 13). Driver Andy McCarthy guided the Noel Daley trainee past another long shot — Tony Adams S — in the shade of the wire to win for the first time in 2024 while handing Karl, the 1-9 favorite, his first defeat of the year.