Category: Grand Circuit Results

Eldorado Scioto Downs hosted four $100,000 Grade 3 events on Saturday (Aug. 23). Headlined by the sixth annual #SendItIn Invitational for open pacers, the 4-year-old Racing Rebel won over the full field of 10 in 1:49.1.

Scott Zeron made a decisive brush up the backstretch with Ardonne and remained in front from there to take the $485,000 (CAD) Grade 1 William Wellwood Memorial for 2-year-old trotters in a stakes-record-equaling 1:52.4 mile on Saturday night (Aug. 23) at Woodbine Mohawk Park.

Sugar Packet found a seam into the turn for home and then powered down the lane en route to a scintillating score in the $385,000 (CAD) Grade 1 Peaceful Way final Saturday evening (Aug. 23) at Woodbine Mohawk Park.

The 9-year-old Bold Eagle stallion Aetos Kronos S kept the gears turning while gutting through a parked first half and stopped the clock with plenty of steam to set a track and Canadian record to win his $50,000 Maple Leaf Trot elimination at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Friday night (Aug. 22) in the first sub-1:50 mile on Canadian soil.

Captain Albano and driver Todd McCarthy went to the front and never looked back, winning Saturday’s (August 16) $100,000 Grade 3 Always B Miki Invitational by a half-length over Coaches Corner in 1:48.2 at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. Ken Hanover finished third.

Super Chapter became the first 3-year-old to trot a five-eighth-mile track in 1:50 while winning the $300,000 Grade 2 Earl Beal Jr. Memorial on Saturday at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, but Emoticon Legacy pushed the winner to the utmost before failing to hold him off by the smallest possible margin.

Dandy Ideal outdueled Rick Wink to get the lead in the opening quarter and remained on top from there to win Saturday’s $300,000 Grade 2 Max C. Hempt Memorial, for 3-year-old male pacers, in 1:48.2 at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.

The Tactical Landing filly Yo Tillie survived a rough early journey, limbed three-wide past the eighth pole, not crossing over to the inside and the lead until past the three-eighths, but kept trotting strongly to win her sixth race in an undefeated season by taking the $250,000 Grade 1 Delmonica Hanover, for 3-year-old trotting fillies, in a stakes- and track-record 1:51.2.

Dexter Dunn pulled Miki And Minnie out of the pocket in the stretch and overtook pacesetter Chantilly nearing the finish line to capture Saturday’s $250,000 Grade 1 James M. Lynch Memorial, for 3-year-old female pacers, by three-quarters of a length in 1:49.1. Rodeo Drive Deo was third.

Warrawee Michelle won Saturday’s $100,000 Grade 3 Sebastian K Invitational for older trotters at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania in 1:50, becoming the fastest 4-year-old trotter ever on a five-eighths-mile track and giving trainer Ake Svanstedt his third consecutive victory in the event named after one of his former stars.