Category: Grand Circuit Results

James MacDonald is the two-time defending O’Brien Award-winning Driver of the Year in Canada, but Friday night (June 14) at the Meadowlands, the 38-year-old pilot proved he can travel south and still do quite well, as he guided the winners of two of the four $50,000 divisions of the second leg of the Graduate Series, for 4-year-olds.

Racing For Three made it four-for-four over the Home of the Flying Turns with a power-packed victory in the $75,000 MGM Buckeye Distaff at MGM Northfield Park on Saturday (June 8).

The old saying goes, “third time’s the charm,” and for Little Rocket Man, the third trip to the $200,000 Battle of Lake Erie was a winning one, as he scored an impressive upset victory on Saturday (June 8) at MGM Northfield Park.

The finalists for next Saturday’s Fan Hanover Stakes and Armbro Flight were determined Saturday night (June 8) at Woodbine Mohawk Park.

Captains Quarters, Funtime Bayama and Nijinsky captured Saturday night’s Pepsi North America Cup eliminations at Woodbine Mohawk Park.

Elimination weekend at Woodbine Mohawk Park kicked off Friday (June 7) with splits for the Goodtimes and Roses Are Red.

Funtime Bayama and Nijinsky posted strong performances to win Saturday’s (June 1) Somebeachsomewhere Stakes divisions at Woodbine Mohawk Park.

Hellabalou turned in a brilliant wire-to-wire victory in Friday night’s C$150,000 Camluck Classic Invitational Pace, presented by Seelster Farms, giving trainer Ron Burke a record fifth win in London’s signature race. His previous wins had some with Won The West, Foiled Again (twice) and Rockin Ron. It was the third victory in the event for driver Louis Phillippe Roy.

After winning the inaugural Joseph Auger Memorial Invitational for older male pacers last year with a world-record 1:46.3 effort, Ruthless Hanover returned to Harrah’s Philadelphia on Sunday to capture the event again, this time with a 1:47.2 score as he held off Ken Hanover by a half-length. Two races earlier, 4-year-old female pacer Twin B Joe Fresh put in a dominant performance to win the $100,000 Betsy Ross Invitational by nearly seven lengths in a stakes- and track-record 1:48.2.

Scott Zeron kept Venerate reserved off a blistering pace, went wide in the lane and trotted the fastest mile in the history of Harrah’s Philadelphia, 1:50.1, in winning the $100,000 Maxie Lee Memorial Invitational Trot Sunday afternoon.