Category: Grand Circuit Results

Ten top 2-year-old filly trotters crowded the two-turn battle of the $428,000 Goldsmith Maid on Saturday night (Nov. 25) at the Meadowlands, with Pizzelle delivering a mild upset. Andrew McCarthy drove the daughter of Walner to victory in 1:54.

Caviart Belle took the lead on the backstretch and held off 1-9 favorite My Girl EJ in the lane to win Saturday’s (Nov. 25) $376,000 Three Diamonds, for 2-year-old female pacers, by a neck in 1:50.3 at the Meadowlands. Miraculous Deo finished third.

Odds-on choice Jiggy Jog S reaffirmed her spot atop the divisional throne with a facile victory in a final-quarter sprint to take the $175,000 FanDuel Championship for trotting mares on Saturday night (Nov. 25) at the Meadowlands.

In the compact combat of a five-horse field, driver Dexter Dunn coasted mid-stretch with Twin B Joe Fresh to make the filly the first 3-year-old to win the $175,000 FanDuel Championship Open Mares Pace on Saturday (Nov. 25) at the Meadowlands in 1:50.2.

Karl completed his 2-year-old season in high style on Saturday night (Nov. 26), capturing the $432,000 Valley Victory final at the Meadowlands in handy fashion. With Yannick Gingras in the bike, the Nancy Takter-trained son of Tactical Landing completed the mile in 1:52.1 and scored his ninth win in 10 career starts.

Why Not Now sustained a first-over push through the final half of a 1:48.2 mile to reel in El Rey and evade Moment Is Here in winning the $260,000 Progress Pace, for 3-year-old colts and geldings, on Wednesday (Nov. 22) at Bally’s Dover.

Two-year-olds were in the spotlight Saturday night (Nov. 19) at The Meadowlands in six $20,000 eliminations for next week’s four big-money “Fall Final Four” finals.

Stockade Seelster ($3.80) and Cannibal ($3.20) both won — albeit narrowly — as the odds-on favorites in their respective $35,000 eliminations of the Progress Pace, for 3-year-old colts and geldings, on Thursday (Nov. 16) at Bally’s Dover.

Breeders Crown champion Confederate cracked $2 million in career earnings with a punishing 1:49 win in the $170,850 Hap Hansen Matron Stakes for 3-year-old male pacers on Thursday (Nov. 9) at Bally’s Dover.

Caviart Belle rebounded when winning in the $205,900 Crawford Farms Kindergarten Classic Final for 2-year-old pacing fillies as the 6-5 favorite with a 1:49.4 blast from off the speed on Saturday night at The Meadowlands.