Backstreet Shadow’s 1:49.3 triumph in the first of three $50,000 flights of the fourth round of the MGM Borgata Pacing Series on Monday night (April 10) at MGM Yonkers Raceway gave the venerable campaigner a share of the all-age track record.
Category: Grand Circuit Results
Drama Act returns to winning ways in Blue Chip Matchmaker Series
Defending Blue Chip Matchmaker Series champion Drama Act regained winning form after finding a division without Amazing Dream N to beat in one of three $40,000 splits of the fourth leg on Friday night (April 7) at MGM Yonkers Raceway. With George Brennan in the bike, Drama Act scored her fifth victory in eight 2023 starts with a 1:53 mile.
Funatthebeach N surprises, Kakaley triples in MGM Borgata Pacing Series
Last year’s MGM Borgata Pacing Series champion Funatthebeach N had posted a third and a fourth thus far in the 2023 edition of the event, but he scored a breakthrough 1:50.4 upset victory in the third of four $50,000 divisions of the third leg on Monday night (April 3) at MGM Yonkers Raceway. The winner’s share of the purse also made Funatthebeach N the newest millionaire in harness racing.
Idealsomemagic A and Tattoo Artist quickest in leg two of MGM Borgata Pacing Series
The second leg of the MGM Borgata Pacing Series for free-for-allers was conducted on a rain-soaked and sloppy MGM Yonkers Raceway on Monday night (March 27), and Idealsomemagic A and Tattoo Artist shared top honors on the program by each turning in a 1:51.2 mile in their respective $50,000 tests. The other divisions went to Lochinvar Art A and Jimmy Freight.
Racine Bell earns millionaire status in Matchmaker win
Racine Bell and driver Jason Bartlett found room to the inside in the stretch and forged to the front late to capture her $40,000 second-leg division of the Blue Chip Matchmaker Series at MGM Yonkers Raceway on Friday night (March 24). A 6-year-old mare by So Surreal, Racine Bell scored in 1:52.3 and became harness racing’s newest millionaire with the victory.
MGM Borgata Pacing Series gets underway at Yonkers
Lochinvar Art A, Hellabalou, Leonidas A and Idealsomemagic A emerged victorious from the four $50,000 opening-round divisions of the MGM Borgata Pacing Series, for free-for-allers, on Monday (March 20) at MGM Yonkers Raceway.
Defending champ Drama Act opens curtain on Matchmaker Series
The Blue Chip Matchmaker Series, for open pacing mares, picked up exactly where it left off in 2022, as defending champion Drama Act captured the first of three $40,000 first-leg divisions of the series at MGM Yonkers Raceway on Friday night (March 17). George Brennan guided the Ron Burke-trained mare, sent off at odds of 1-5, to an imposing 1:51.3 victory.