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The 3-year-old colt and gelding pacers highlighted the Labor Day weekend Maine Sire Stakes at Windsor Fair on Sunday (Sept. 1) with a pair of $19,000-plus divisions where the top horse in the division continued his winning ways. 

On Sunday (Sept. 1), Go Dog Go and Miki And Minnie downed the favorites in their respective divisions to collect triumphs in the $80,000 fourth leg of the Kentucky Sire Stakes Championship Series for freshman male trotters and pacing fillies.

The Menhammar-bred Fame and Glory (sired by Tactical Landing) hasn’t done much wrong in his racing career. On Sunday afternoon the finest victory to date came when Fame and Glory, trained by Timo Nurmos and with Björn Goop  in the bike, won the Swedish Trotting Derby over 3,140 meters or approximately 2 miles with a time of 1:56.2f.

Dawn Amiss’ homebred Fantastic Voyage responded to sustained late pressure from 1-2 favorite Lyons Stealth and prevailed narrowly in the final Open Handicap Pace of the 2024 Ocean Downs meet, recording a 1:52.1 win in Sunday’s (Sept. 1) $10,000 feature and giving driver Jared Moyer one of his three wins on the program.

There was no question that Shoobee Doo A was a speedy horse – he had had the lead at some point in eighteen consecutive races dating back to April, and while racing against the top-level claimers at Pocono this summer, he was a weekly frontend threat, with twelve victories and $116,890 on his 2024 card.

Saturday (August 31) night featured many surprises at MGM Northfield Park, with several longshots winning, and trainer Taylor McKean earning her first career training win.

Chimichurri N used a quick burst of early speed from post eight in an eight-horse field on the way to a wire-to-wire win in the Saturday night feature at The Meadowlands, a $24,000 pace for horses with a TrackMaster rating of 92 or less.