One More Bet (Jimmy Whittemore, $3.54) captured the $7,500 featured fillies and mares pace at Vernon Downs on Thursday (Aug. 6).
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Pepper Wow throws hot mile at Plainridge
Pepper Wow turned a first-over move into a career best-tying effort as he won the $20,000 trotting feature at Plainridge Park on Thursday (Aug. 6).
Powwow back for more in 2026 MGM Yonkers International Trot
The MGM Yonkers International Trot welcomes its third participant as Norway’s Powwow joins the field for the Grade 1 event scheduled for September 12 at MGM Yonkers Raceway.
A sweet win for Suge at Bangor State Fair
Suge (pronounced like the first syllable of “Sugar”) surged down Victory Lane at the Bangor State Fair on Wednesday (Aug. 5), earning her first win since joining the Michelle Lefebvre stable and delivering the first win as an owner for Lefebvre’s 17-year-old son, Landon Biggar.
Freshmen frolic at Bangor Fair
For the first time this season the Pine Tree State-bred 2-year-old male pacers ventured away from Cumberland and found themselves under the bright lights of Bangor Raceway’s Fair meet on Wednesday (August 5) for three $15,000 divisions of the Maine Sire Stakes.
Nobody Knows It sets stakes and track records in MSF at Ocean Downs
A record-setting performance highlighted an exciting night of Maryland Standardbred Fund competition Wednesday (Aug. 5) at Ocean Downs as the state’s freshman fillies took center stage in four divisions worth more than $113,000.
Bailey J was as advertised in the $110,200 NYSS at Batavia
The New York Sire Stakes were at Batavia Downs on Wednesday (Aug. 5) evening and featured a field of eight 2-year-old trotting colts and geldings who competed for their share of the $110,200 purse and Bailey J (Chapter Seven-Fade Into You) proved once again that he is a force to be dealt with in this division on the strength of another impressive win.
Historic Wednesday caps two-day meet at Bedford (PA)
The Pennsylvania Fair Circuit came back to this borough in southwest Pennsylvania for a Two-Day Fair Sire Stakes meet on Tuesday (Aug. 4) and Wednesday (Aug. 5), which in its way was up there with those two sub-1:50f miles by freshmen at Pocono on Monday. Let’s go right to the racing.
Red Mile Abandons Wednesday Card; Remaining Sire Stakes Rescheduled
Due to intense rain that arrived in Lexington during the Wednesday (Aug. 5) card of harness racing at The Red Mile, the track had to cancel the remainder of the 14-race card for unsafe track conditions.
Nezuko Kamado S named early Hambletonian Oaks favorite
Despite being defeated by Busy Miss Lissy S in her elimination last Saturday (Aug. 1), 10-time winner Nezuko Kamado S has been installed the 2-1 morning-line favorite for the 56th edition of the $500,000 Grade 1 Winning Key Farm Hambletonian Oaks, which goes to post this coming Saturday (Aug. 8) at the Meadowlands.