After getting some class and post relief from her last two starts, Won Surreal Deal impressively toured the facility at Batavia Downs on Wednesday (Oct. 30) en route to her sixth win of the year in the $12,000 upper-level conditioned pace for fillies and mares.
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Southwind Amazon ties all-time win record
“Step aside, Niffit!” exclaimed track announcer Kenny Livengood as Southwind Amazon tied the all-time modern era record for wins with a 1:54.4 score on Tuesday (Oct. 29) at MGM Northfield Park.
Long shots prevail in Pocono features
The top purse offered on Tuesday afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania was $15,000, for two races for developing horses, one race on each gait. They were also “big-money events” in another sense as well, because on a day where 12 of the 14 races brought home winners who paid $6.40 or less, the feature winners paid $42.80 on the pace and $22.80 on the trot.
Supreme Court keeps Fifth Circuit horse racing ruling on ice
A Fifth Circuit ruling that declared the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority’s oversight of federal horse safety regulation to be unconstitutional was put on hold by the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday while it decides whether to hear the authority’s appeal.
Per Engblom reaches 1,000 career training victories
Trainer Per Engblom sent out two winners on Monday night (Oct. 28) at MGM Yonkers Raceway, with the second of the victories being the 1,000th of his career.
Powerful finish to Simpson Series at Pocono
In winding up the John Simpson Sr. Memorial stakes races for the year at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on Monday afternoon (Oct. 28), the dominant players were the sophomore trotter Sir Pinocchio, who achieved one distinction while just missing two others in winning a division for his group in 1:51.4; trainer Åke Svanstedt, who sent out the divisional winners in the other three of the 3-year-old diamondgaited action; and the pairing of driver Tim Tetrick and trainer Jim King Jr., who swept the races for two-year-old pacing fillies.
MGM Grand Prix Trotting Series resumes Friday at Yonkers
Two $75,000 divisions of the second leg of the MGM Grand Prix Trotting Series will go behind the gate on Friday night (Nov. 1) at MGM Yonkers Raceway.
Shults, Burt, Chiodo win Philadelphia AHDC paces
Michael Shults and Raymond Burt delivered a pair of favorites while Bruno Chiodo scored a 17-1 upset to win in their respective $7,500 divisions of the American Harness Drivers Club Pace at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Sunday (Oct. 27).