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U.S. Trotting Association District 12 Chairperson Jeff Gregory has informed the Association that trainer/driver Stacy Chiodo has been selected to serve the remainder of Jacquie Ingrassia’s term on the Board of Directors, which will expire in 2025.

Alessandro Gocciadoro has been the leading trainer in Italy for several years and in the first Group 1 race of the season in Italy, The Gran Premio Costa Azzurra, raced in Turin Sunday afternoon (April 7) and with a total purse of 154,000 Euro, Gocciadoro trained five of the 10 starters.

World champion Victory Tilly, 29, has died in Sweden.

Tony Beltrami bolted from the backfield and John Calabrese led from pillar to post to take their respective $9,000 divisions of the American Harness Drivers Club Trot at Freehold Raceway on Saturday (April 6).

Harrington Raceway’s 78th season of live harness racing will commence Monday (April 8) with a 15-race program starting at 4:30 p.m.

The Paralympic Trot at Aby Racetrack on May 4 in Gothenburg is the first big open trot race in Sweden in 2024. The race carries a purse for the winner of $140,000 and the contenders will be found in four elimination races plus wild cards.

Lip Reader A silenced the pacers in Buffalo Raceway’s $14,000 Open on Saturday night (April 6) by putting in a devastating performance against six rivals. He beat Better Take It by 2-1/2 lengths in 1:53.2 over the fast track while Optical Illusion N was third.

In an interview done earlier in the evening, driver Jason Bartlett said he was confident in his chances with Admiral Hill in the Saturday (April 6) feature at The Meadowlands, a $27,500 winners-over pace. But even Bartlett must have been surprised at how well his horse would do, given that this was his first start of the year while facing a tough bunch of older competitors.

There were decidedly mixed results in $20,000 first-round preliminaries of the Bobby Weiss Series for 3-year-old pacers on a cool Saturday afternoon (April 6) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. In the three dashes for fillies, two favorites and a second choice won; but in action for the sophomore males, the chalk met its Waterloo, with four second choices, a third choice and a 36-1 prospect winning.

Yer So Bad gave Tony Verruso victory in Saturday’s (April 6) lone Meadowlands Amateur Driving Club (MADC) event at the Meadowlands.