The Kindergarten Series for 2-year-olds kicked off Friday night at The Meadowlands with seven $25,000, leg one dashes for horses of each sex and gait, and one winner that stood out was a still-learning Diabolic Hill, who scored in the first of three colt and gelding trots in the fifth race.
Category: Grand Circuit Results
Major stakes contested during Grand Circuit Action
Starting on Thursday (June 26) through Saturday (June 28) there were 16 Grand Circuit events contested. From The Meadows to Woodbine Mohawk Park to Yonkers and then The Meadowlands. The competition is heating up along with the blistering temps.
Sylvia Hanover upsets Twin B Joe Fresh in Perfect Sting
The doll of her class as a 2- and 3-year-old, Sylvia Hanover endured many defeats as Twin B Joe Fresh claimed the crown in the 4-year-old campaign in progress to a Horse of the Year title. But Sylvia Hanover returned in the fourth start of her 5-year-old season and landed a serious wallop on 1-9 chalk Twin B Joe Fresh to pull a stunner in the $116,500 Perfect Sting Mare Pace on Saturday night (June 28) at The Meadowlands.
Periculum clinches Crawford Farms Trot
Periculum, with Scott Zeron at the lines, fired mid-stretch from off the pace to carve a 1:50 score in the $164,000 Crawford Farms Open Trot on Saturday (June 28) at The Meadowlands.
Coach Stefanos, Ken Hanover torch track in Brower Memorial
Saturday (June 28) saw speedy returning victories by Ken Hanover, a winner once last year from 12 starts in a lifetime-best mile over this track, and 2024 Breeders Crown Open Pace champion Coach Stefanos in their respective $86,500 divisions of the Dave Brower Memorial at The Meadowlands.
Call Me Goo rambles to millionaire status in Six Pack
Call Me Goo fought confidently when making two moves in her 1:51.2 winning effort in the $114,500 Six Pack Mare Trot on Saturday (June 28) at The Meadowlands and thrusted herself over the seven-figure earnings plateau in the process.
New York New York Mile contests taken by Shes A Shoe In, Monalishi
Three-year-old trotting fillies were in action on Friday night (June 27) at MGM Yonkers Raceway as Shes A Shoe In and Monalishi emerged with victories from a pair of Grade 3 $60,000 New York New York Mile sections.
Twisted Destiny victorious in MGM Grand Messenger Stakes
Dexter Dunn completed a sweep of the Triple Crown opening leg races at MGM Yonkers Raceway on Friday night (June 27) when he guided Twisted Destiny to victory in the $200,000 Grade 2 MGM Grand Messenger Stakes for 3-year-old male pacers.
Super Chapter leads Melander-trained exacta in MGM Yonkers Trot
Super Chapter made a break when he raced at MGM Yonkers Raceway in last year’s New York Sire Stakes final, but Dexter Dunn took no chances of a repeat of that performance, taking the prohibitive favorite in Friday’s $300,000 Grade 2 MGM Yonkers Trot well off-the-pace at the outset but still having plenty in reserve to secure a 1:54.3 victory in the opening leg of the Trotting Triple Crown.
Roy pilots both Graduate winners at Big M
Louis Roy is always among the leading drivers at his home track of Woodbine Mohawk Park, and the 35-year-old pilot showed he can win races at the Meadowlands as well Saturday night, taking both third-leg Graduate Series dashes, for 4-year-olds.