Ken Rucker trainee Little Rocket Man again braved troubled seas out of post eight to grab a repeat 1:49.3 win off a parked mile in the $40,000 Open Pace at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel on Monday (July 1).
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2024 New York Sire Stakes County Fair Series Gets Underway at Goshen Historic Track on July 5
The 2024 New York Sire Stakes County Fair Series season begins on Friday, July 5, at Goshen Historic Track in Goshen, NY. The opening day race program will feature 2- and 3-year-old races beginning at 1 p.m. Goshen Historic Track is the world’s oldest active harness racing track after being established in 1838.
Attis Rock wins photo in Pocono feature
The Bar Hopping sophomore gelding Attis Rock came up the inside to just catch pacesetter G Load in 1:57 while taking the $15,000 featured trot at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania Monday (July 1) afternoon.
“New” Communicators Hall of Fame exhibit debuts Saturday
The United States Harness Writers Association will celebrate the opening of the new, interactive Communicators Hall of Fame kiosk, inside the Harness Racing Museum and Hall of Fame at Goshen, N.Y., on Saturday (July 6) with a special ribbon cutting ceremony at 10 a.m.
Chapvious heads field in NYSS at Buffalo
Chapvious has already tasted victory in the New York Sire Stakes for the 2-year-old filly trotters and she hopes to experience that delectable feeling once again as she leads the full field of eight in the $108,200 event at Buffalo Raceway on Wednesday afternoon (July 3).
Fred Ward Jr. and his saving ‘Grace’
Frederick H. Ward Jr.’s Gowestyounggrace was the wagering favorite in the first of two $16,000-plus divisions of the Maine Sire Stakes for 3-year-old pacing fillies on Sunday (June 30) at Bangor, but to say that this filly has a special place in his owner-trainer-breeder’s heart would be a glaring understatement.
Mintun scores driving quadruple at What Cheer
The weather was not the only hot topic at What Cheer on Sunday (June 30). Mark Mintum was on fire, picking up four driving wins on the 12-race card.
National HBPA petitions FTC for no-effect thresholds
The National Horsemen’s Benevolent & Protective Association (HBPA) has filed a Petition for Rulemaking under the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA), requesting the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to create no-effect thresholds. A no-effect threshold, also known as a no-effect screening limit or no-effect cutoff, is a laboratory testing detection level below which no owner or trainer will be punished for innocent and pharmacologically irrelevant concentrations of foreign substances that have no effect on a horse.
Illusion Seelster the real deal in Ron Banks final at Aces
The featured event on the Sunday night (June 30) program at Running Aces was the Ron Banks Memorial FFA mares pace final, which boasted a very accomplished field of nine distaffers lining up behind the gate to battle it out for $35,000 in purse money. Illusion Seelster dug in gamely to win the race in 1:51.
Wagner trainees sweep Maryland Sire Stakes prelims
Geralds A Keeper and Cloggs For Real captured their respective $10,000 first-round Maryland Sire Stakes events for 3-year-old colts and geldings on Sunday (June 30) at Ocean Downs, giving owner Kelsey Wagner and trainer John Wagner a stakes double.