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An early move turned into a statement win for Ucanttouchthis, who romped in the $22,500 feature pace at Plainridge Park on Monday afternoon (Aug. 21).

Let It Ride Stables, Hutt Racing and West Wins Stable’s Stag Party ($4.40, Corey Callahan) notched his third straight win Monday (Aug. 21) at Harrington Raceway with a 1:53.3 win in the $20,000 Open for pacers.

Stride The Hill added his name to the Running Aces record books on Sunday with an impressive gate-to-wire score in the $17,600 Open Handicap trot.

Schampus with trainer/driver Josef Franzl won the German Trotting Derby in a new race record at the historic Mariendorf track in Berlin the 128 Deutsches Traber Derby over 1 3-16 mile with a total purse of 265.639 Euro.

Sierra Girl and Paulina Hanover picked up Pennsylvania Sire Stakes victories in the two-year-old trotting filly class on Sunday (Aug. 20) night at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. The races comprised the final leg of the Sire Stakes preliminaries before the Pennsylvania finals are held on Saturday, September 2 at Pocono.

Driver Andy Miller became the 21st driver in North America to win 10,000 races on Sunday (Aug. 20) at Red Mile. He steered Samwise The Brave to his first career victory in four starts in 1:56.1 in a $15,000 third leg of the Kentucky Goldenrod Series for male sophomore trotters. The card in Lexington featured 10 stakes contests on a 13-race card and demonstrated Karl (Yannick Gingras) is another colt to keep an eye on moving forward after a dominating performance in the $80,000 Kentucky Sire Stakes third round action in his second start.

The three American Harness Drivers Club (AHDC) events at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Sunday afternoon (Aug. 20) saw three different drivers land in the winner’s circle – a pair off of tight finishes and one off a blowout.

Tioga Downs welcomed two divisions of the New York Sire Stakes (NYSS) for 3-year-old pacing colts & geldings on Sunday (August 20).