On a day when favorites predominated and a horse had to be close entering the far turn to have a good chance, the Papi Rob Hanover three-year-old filly Asphalt filled both those conditions and won the $13,500 Friday (Sept. 19) feature for developing distaff pacers at Harrah’s Philadelphia.
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Bettors Donttell fires late to win Vernon feature
Bettors Donttell (Brad Irvine) captured the $7,500 featured pace at Vernon Downs on Friday (September 19).
Six-figure sale Friday at onGait.com
Kentucky Commonwealth Series champion Strangerinthenight sold Friday afternoon at onGait.com for $100,000.
Shenandoah to host Sire Stakes preps, amateur drivers series this weekend
Shenandoah Downs, which enters weekend number two of its seven-week fall harness racing season, will host a round of Virginia Sire Stakes races for the first time ever – for 2-year-olds – on both Saturday and Sunday.
Ragtime Red rolls in Rosecroft return
David Banks’ homebred Ragtime Red extended her win streak to six with a lifetime-best 1:51.2 effort in Thursday’s (Sept. 18) $12,000 Fillies and Mares Open Handicap Pace at Rosecroft Raceway.
Big weekend set for Running Aces
Running Aces is set and ready for a big weekend of harness racing to close out its 2025 season.
Faraldo, Adamczyk score in Yonkers NAADA trots
Joe Faraldo prevailed with a first-up push, as did Andrew Adamczyk later in the card, to win their respective divisions of the North American Amateur Drivers Association (NAADA) trots at MGM Yonkers Raceway on Thursday night (Sept. 18).
Maine’s undefeated Snowonthepines gets eighth win
The two divisions of the Maine Sire Stakes for 2-year-old pacing fillies closed out the Farmington Fair on Thursday (Sept. 18), with the undefeated filly phenom Snowonthepines wrapping up her successful tour of the Pine Tree State summer circuit.
Ragtime Red rolls in Rosecroft return
David Banks’ homebred Ragtime Red extended her win streak to six with a lifetime-best 1:51.2 effort in Thursday’s (Sept. 18) $12,000 Fillies and Mares Open Handicap Pace at Rosecroft Raceway.
Fly High Cruiser soars in BSS action on Jug Day at Delaware
Fly High Cruiser scored his third Buckeye Stallion Series win of the season on Thursday (Sept. 18) as the Delaware County Fair hosted eight $20,000 divisions of the fifth leg of the BSS for sophomore pacers in the 20-race Jug Day card to conclude the five-day meet in Delaware, Ohio. The card included five divisions of male pacers and three divisions of filly pacers.