The husband and wife team of Nick and Betty Clegg may have one of harness racing’s next superstars in their barn following an impressive effort by Janelle Granny on Wednesday (June 21) at MGM Northfield Park.
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Hardrockcafe, Met Your Request win Philly trotting features
Sophomore trotters Hardrockcafe and Met Your Request won the $12,600 featured races at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Wednesday afternoon (June 21).
So Well Dressed fastest in NYSS at Buffalo
So Well Dressed ($8.00) won the fastest of the three New York Sire Stakes divisions for 2-year-old filly pacers, each contested for approximately $35,000, on Wednesday afternoon (June 21) at Buffalo Raceway as she claimed victory over Blue Point in 1:57.2 over a fast track.
DSBF stakes contested before Harrington card cut short
Four $20,000 Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF) divisions for 3-year-old trotters were contested in an abbreviated Wednesday (June 21) card at Harrington Raceway.
Call Me Thefireman torches foes in NAADA
Anthony Verruso ignited speed from Call Me Thefireman and went the distance to take the $7,500 North American Amateur Drivers Association Trot on Wednesday afternoon (June 21) at Monticello Raceway.
Promising 2-year-olds strut their stuff at Pocono
Prominent Pocono barns produced sweeps in the action for each sex of 2-year-old pacers during the Wednesday (June 21) early session at The Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.
Get A Wish first to join MGM Yonkers International Trot field
With just 11 weeks remaining before the $1 million MGM Yonkers International Trot, the management at MGM Yonkers Raceway is already extending invitations and has its eyes open for potential additions to the trotting classic. MGM Yonkers Raceway will host the 1-1/4 mile event for some of the world’s best older trotters on Saturday (Sept. 9). Each week a new contender for the race will be unveiled and first up is the Danish representative Get A Wish.
Freshmen take another turn at Magical Acres
Magical Acres held 13 qualifiers for 2-year-olds Wednesday (June 21). Trainers Tom Cancelliere, Noel Daley, Chuck Sylvester and Carter Pinske each sent out two winners over the training center’s five-eighths-mile oval. They included Sylvester’s colt Ever Clever, who recorded the morning’s fastest trotting mile for the rookies, and Cancelliere’s colt Steven’s Saloon, who had the quickest pacing mile.
Wrenn trainees triple in Kentucky Proud series
Trainer Melanie Wrenn took top honors on Tuesday’s (June 20) Western Kentucky State Fair program at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming and Hotel, accounting for three of the afternoon’s 17 winners in Kentucky Proud Series competition.
Hold My Wine, Killer Stripes take DSBF splits
Harrington, DE – Hold My Wine ($5.60, Montrell Teague) and Killer Stripes ($2.10, Art Stafford Jr.) each won their respective $20,000 Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund elimination for 3-year-old pacing fillies Tuesday (June 20) at Harrington Raceway.