Northville, MI – This coming Saturday night (July 29) Southwind Amazon (Camluck – Artoonist) will seek to earn career win number 128 at Michigan’s Northville Downs, which would put the 13-year-old into a tie for second all-time with Rambling Willie on the winningest standardbreds list.
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Wallandar behaves, upsets in Philly trot
Chester, PA – On a day that proved not very kind to betting favorites, the Walner sophomore filly Wallandar had her “A” game, including the perfect decorum she had been missing in recent outings to take the $12,600 trotting feature at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Wednesday (July 26) in a new mark of 1:56.3 while paying $50.40 to her scattered win backers.
Canadian standouts set for Scioto visit
So Much More is another year older, and perhaps even another year better. Already a two-time O’Brien Award winner, the 7-year-old female pacer went the quickest mile of her career — 1:49.1 — just a month ago to win a Preferred for fillies and mares at Woodbine Mohawk Park. She has nine victories in 19 starts this season after winning 16 times in 2022, a total that tied for second most among all pacers in North America. On Saturday, So Much More will race outside of Canada for the first time in her 144-race career when she competes in the $100,000 Cleopatra Invitational for older female pacers at Scioto Downs in Ohio.
Take two for Etonnant in 2023 MGM Yonkers International Trot
While it is unclear if Richard Westerink is familiar with the proverb “if at first you don’t succeed try, try again” he clearly lives by it. The owner/trainer will once again cross the Atlantic Ocean with €2.5 million winner Etonnant, perhaps the top horse in Europe right now, in hopes of winning the $1 million MGM Yonkers International Trot.
Racing held Sunday in Kahoka, Missouri
With rain canceling races over the past two years, excited fans gathered in the grandstand and tailgated in the infield to watch harness racing at Kahoka, Missouri on Sunday (July 23).
Cheese Omelet surges to feature win at Aces
The feature race on the Tuesday night (July 25) program at Running Aces was the $15,000 Open II Handicap Pace which went to post with a field of eight talented contenders.
Hail Mary wins Aabergs Memorial in 1:51.4f
The 7-year-old Swedish trotter Hail Mary, trained by Daniel Redén and with Ôrjan Kihlström in the bike, was parked outside the leader Ultion Face for most of the trip in the prestigious Aabergs Memorial at Jägersro, Sweden. Despite that fact, Hail Mary proved to be the strongest in the field and won by a length in 1:51.4f.
Camerican leads Tuesday’s New York Sire Stakes winners at Yonkers
The New York Sire Stakes circuit was back at MGM Yonkers Raceway on Tuesday night (July 25) with three divisions for 2-year-old pacing fillies featured on the 10-race program.
Falana Hanover edges out Proud Mary Tuesday at Pocono
Proud Mary came rollin’ on the river of slop in the Pocono Pike, but she was out finished by Falana Hanover, who won the female section of the $16,000 tri-features for pacers at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. The final clocking was 1:53.2 over a track rated “sloppy” most of the day.
DSBF Finals headline huge Harrington Thursday card
Harrington Raceway’s richest program of the season will commence Thursday (July 27) during Governor’s Day at the Delaware State Fair. A 12-race program will await racing fans with purses exceeding $600,000 on the card, headlined by four $110,000 Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF) finals for 3-year-old horses and the $50,000 Governor’s Cup, a long-time staple on the program for the state’s top pacers ages 4 years old and up.