Vernon, NY – Vernon Downs plays host to the Big Apple Finals for 2-year-olds in all four classes on Saturday (October 11). They will all compete for a purse of $250,000. Fragment…
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Streaks on the line during Hoosier Champions Night
The stage is set for Indiana’s richest night of racing, Hoosier Champions night at Harrah’s Hoosier Park on Friday, Oct. 10.
$200,000 PA Fair finales Monday at Pocono
$200,000 will be on the line when the best of the performers who raced on the Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes circuit this summer clash for “bragging rights” in eight $25,000 divisional Championships on Monday afternoon (Oct. 13) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.
Favorites roll in DSBF splits; Tetrick doubles
Just Applause and Odds On Put Option, both driven by Tim Tetrick, won their respective $20,000 Delaware Standardbred Breeders’ Fund divisions for 2-year-olds on Tuesday (Oct. 7) at Harrington Raceway to complete a sweep of the two preliminary legs.
Four in a row for Two Birds Onestone
On Tuesday’s (Oct. 7) harness racing program at Northville Downs at Barry Expo Center, Two Birds Onestone and driver Jennifer Main won their fourth start in a row since coming to the Hastings, Mich., oval.
My Degenerate sets multiple records in Mass. stakes
The $2.4 million Massachusetts Breeders Stakes returned to Plainridge Park on Tuesday (Oct. 7) with seven events featuring 3-year-old trotters and pacers. The undoubted star of the show was My Degenerate (Muscle Hill-Decadence), who set new stakes and track records and became the fastest 3-year-old trotting gelding ever bred in the Bay State after going gate-to-wire in the lone $75,000 trotting division for colts and geldings, stopping the clock in 1:53.1.
Bay Breeze Hanover breezes to Pocono victory
The 3-year-old Bar Hopping filly Bay Breeze Hanover turned in the race of her life in Tuesday’s (Oct. 7) $15,500 featured trot at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, overcoming a hard trip while posting a lifetime best of 1:54.3.
Alittlesidehustl N wins Saratoga feature
With no Open on the docket on Tuesday, a $14,500 pace for fillies and mares served as the feature and Alittlesidehustl N was the race’s 1-4 betting favorite just one week removed from a second-place try as the odds-on favorite off her drop to this level.
Grand Circuit report
With perfect weather of warm afternoons and sunshine, this past week in Lexington began on Friday with Grade 3 International Stallion Stakes events for 2-year old pacing fillies and colt trotters.
Better Gon stays undefeated in Maryland stakes final
Frederick Weitz Jr.’s Better Gon kept his undefeated record intact with a lifetime-best 1:54.1 win in the Wayne Smullin Memorial, for 2-year-old male pacers, one of four $95,000 Maryland Sire Stakes fall series championship events held Monday (Oct. 6) at Rosecroft Raceway.