Flanked virtually the entire stretch by strong members of Team Orange Crush, the Chapter Seven colt Karinchak persevered strongly on the lead to win Monday’s (April 21) $50,000 Championship of the Bobby Weiss Trotting Series for sophomore males in 1:53.2, equaling the fastest trotting mile of the year at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.
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Batavia Downs to host 2025 NYSS Night of Champions
The Agriculture & NYS Horse Breeding Development Fund is proud to announce that the 2025 New York Sire Stakes Night of Champions will take place on Saturday (Sept. 6) at Batavia Downs Gaming & Hotel in Batavia, N.Y.
Better Is Nice heads Kentucky Sire Stakes opener
Better Is Nice, last season’s Kentucky Sire Stakes sophomore male pacing champion, makes his 4-year-old debut against four foes in a Kentucky Sire Stakes preliminary event Monday (April 21) at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel, one of five $50,000 first-round series events on the 13-race program.
Miller aims for Weiss title with developing pair
Julie Miller will hope to see a couple of late bloomers continue their growth Monday (April 21) when they go behind the starting gate for the $50,000 Bobby Weiss Series final for 3-year-old male trotters at Mohegan Pennsylvania’s Pocono Downs. Miller-trained Green Mel, coming off a 4-1/4 length win in a division of last week’s third round of the series, is the 5-2 morning-line favorite in the final. His stablemate Te Quiero Lindy, who had a 5-1/4 length victory in a division of the event’s second round, is the 4-1 third choice.
Sheriff N locks up feature at Cumberland
Sheriff N took no prisoners in locking up the featured $5,000 conditioned pace on Saturday (April 19) at Cumberland Raceway.
Fireworks in Prix de l’Atlantique in Paris
It resulted in a surprising victory at the Prix de l’Atlantique on the Enghien track in Paris, where the underrated Iguski Sautonne, driven by Matthieu Abrivard, surged past competitors in the final stretch to secure a confident win.
Its Saturday Night, Gem Quality dead heat at Big M
After a cutthroat stretch battle, there was no clear-cut winner of the Saturday (April 19) night feature at The Meadowlands, as Gem Quality and Its Saturday Night finished in a dead heat for win in the $20,000 high-end conditioned pace.
Quarrel wins opening night feature at Vernon
Quarrel (Chris Long) took the $8,500 featured Fillies & Mares Open Pace at Vernon Downs on opening night Saturday (April 19).
Lip Reader A silences Open field at Buffalo
Lip Reader A silenced the field in Buffalo Raceway’s $14,500 Open Pave on Saturday afternoon (April 19) with a 1-1/4 length victory over Stranger Things in 1:54.4 over the good track.
Charge Me Up wins $50,000 Bobby Weiss Pacing Series Final
Coming into the richest race of the young season at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, the $50,000 Championship of the Bobby Weiss Pacing Series for three-year-old males, five of the eight entrants had won two of their three Weiss preliminaries. Yet winning the Championship was the only horse who waited until the final prelim before getting a series success – the Heston Blue Chip colt Charge Me Up, who got the job done in a lifetime best 1:51.3.