It might be uncommon for someone to buy a racehorse while getting a pedicure, but that bit of multitasking has paid off beautifully for Tammy Cummings and her daughter, Alyssa. Candy’s Desire has won 14 of 56 starts, cashed a paycheck in a total of 45, and earned $92,508 since joining the Cummings Stable.
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Woodbine Mohawk Park releases nominees for 2023 major stakes
Woodbine Entertainment today released the full list of horses nominated to this season’s major stakes races at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Woodbine’s lucrative Standardbred stakes program again saw strong support from owners and trainers for the Feb. 15 nomination deadline. From 18 major stakes requiring a nomination, half of the events saw numbers increase or remain the same.
Boulder Creek, 23, dies
Boulder Creek p,4,1:48.1, the sport’s 10th richest pacer of all time with earnings of $3,425,857, died last week at Olive Branch Farm in North Carolina due to colic. He was 23 years old and had enjoyed retirement at Olive Branch Farm for several years.
Leonidas A repeats in Open Pace at Yonkers
Leonidas A won for the second straight time at the top level at Yonkers Raceway, capturing Monday night’s $36,000 Open Pace in 1:53.3.
Game Of Claims, woes for chalk continue at Pocono
The Game Of Claims Series for $7,500 base-priced horses conducted its first preliminary in four $7,500 divisions on Monday (March 6) afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. And the highly-regarded horses at the windows continued to take a shellacking in the claiming ranks –the chalk won in the GOC’s first Saturday (March 4) prelim, and then the favorites amazingly lost the remaining seventeen contests for the selling pacers.
Six-figure auction tops another busy week at onGait.com
The Captaintreacherous mare The Big Hen p,2,Q1:58.1s led all auctions at onGait.com this week when she sold for $100,400 to Steve Jones of Cameo Hills Farm, New York. In foal to Always B Miki, the half-sister to millionaire Medusa p,3,1:51.2; 1:49 and
champion Canadian filly Alicorn p,2,1:50.3 was consigned by Steve Heimbecker of Ontario.
Pepsi North America Cup draws highest number of nominations since 2010
Woodbine Entertainment today announced 86 sophomore pacers have been nominated to this year’s C$1 million Pepsi North America Cup. O’Brien and Dan Patch Award winner Stockade Seelster leads the group of 86 nominees.
Betting up on the Winter meeting in Paris
Even though the Soccer World Cup in November was a tough competitor, early numbers of the betting at the French Winter meeting at Vincennes show a plus of 0.5 percent — around 4 million Euro.
Winning Shadow, Makin Some Noise cruise in Sunday MGM Northfield Park features
Killer Instinct and Winning Shadow have been trading punches over the past couple of weeks, but Winning Shadow (Chris Lems) got the upper hand on his foe in Sunday’s (March 5) $18,500 Open Handicap Trot at MGM Northfield Park.
Pocono’s Game of Claims series again tough on chalk
Wilkes-Barre, PA – The Sunday (March 5) afternoon action at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania featured seven $12,500 divisions of the first preliminary of the Game Of Claims series for $15,000 base-price pacers. And like yesterday, it was not a good day for the GOC favorites – a single chalk was victorious Saturday, which was a total of one more than the most-fancied series campaigners who competed Sunday.