The best pacers and trotters on the grounds lined up in two $12,800 Open events at Batavia Downs on Saturday (Sept. 13) night, where one winner was heavily backed by the public and the other upset the chalk bettors.
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Stars will look to shine in Kentucky Championships at Red Mile
It has arrived. After nearly two months of competition, the Kentucky Championship Series events worth $3.2 million will take place at The Red Mile on the 13-race Sunday Night Lights card (Sept. 14) sponsored by Crawford Farms.
Typhoon Banner N wins Open at Tioga
Typhoon Banner N captured the featured $17,000 Open Pace at Tioga Downs on Saturday (Sept. 13).
Grand Circuit racing at the Delaware County Fair to kick off Sunday
Two $72,250 divisions of the Ohio Breeders Championship for 2-year-old filly pacers will be featured on opening day, Sunday (Sept. 14), of the five-day Delaware County Fair meet.
Unusual Clarity takes feature at Vernon
Unusual Clarity (Ron Harp) captured the $7,500 featured Fillies and Mares Pace at Vernon Downs on Saturday (Sept. 13).
Lexus Kody victorious in MGM Yonkers International Trot
Lexus Kody, representing Canada, led throughout and won the 2025 edition of the $1 million Grade 1 MGM Yonkers International Trot on Saturday afternoon at MGM Yonkers Raceway. Lexus Kody, driven by Yannick Gingras for trainer Ron Burke, completed the mile and a quarter in 2:24.4.
Apex, Atlantic Summer win Grade 1 stakes at Hoosier
Apex and driver Dexter Dunn proved to be top dogs in the $368,950 Grade 1 Peter Haughton Memorial, for 2-year-old male trotters, at Harrah’s Hoosier Park on Friday (Sept. 12). The “Win and You’re In” event for the Breeders Crown highlighted a 15-race card with nearly $1.5 million in purses and also featured the $464,400 Grade 1 Jim Doherty Memorial, for freshman female trotters, won by Atlantic Summer by the narrowest of margins on the stakes-filled night.
Southwind Chaska scores in Big M’s Kindergarten
Southwind Chaska used an authoritative brush to grab the lead at the half and sailed home from there as much the best on a Friday evening when the fourth leg of the Kindergarten Series was in the spotlight at The Meadowlands.
Ohio Selected Jug Sale shatters sales records
Once again, the Ohio Selected Jug Yearling Sale broke its own sales record during this year’s edition of the Standardbred auction, with 266 horses selling for a gross of $8,659,000, a 9.3-percent increase from 2024.
Denarius, Shimmering Hanover victorious in Champlain filly trots
Odds-on choice Denarius and 4-1 second choice Shimmering Hanover emerged supreme from the two divisions of the C$163,725 Grade 3 Champlain Stakes for 2-year-old trotting fillies on Friday night (Sept. 12) at Woodbine Mohawk Park, a card which also saw a huge upset in the C$40,000 Elegantimage Prep by Stormont Beautiful.