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Up Your Deo stunned a field scratched to 10 to win the second leg of the New Jersey Sires Stakes (NJSS) for sophomore trotting colts at 43-1 on Saturday (May 20) at the Meadowlands. The Walner colt recorded his first victory, defeating favorite Oh Well in a duel to the finish of a 1:52 mile.

The SBOA Stakes for Ontario-sired 3-year-olds featured a quartet of entertaining finals on Saturday night (May 20) at Woodbine Mohawk Park.

Tony Too Tall ($6.20) didn’t come up short in Buffalo Raceway’s $15,500 Open Pace on Saturday evening (May 20), rallying to post a 1-1/4-length decision over Alta Engen A in 1:55 over a good track.

Reinsman Nick Graffam started Saturday’s (May 20) Cumberland program needing just one victory to push him to 1,000 lifetime driving wins. That moment finally arrived in the afternoon’s eighth race, in which Four Finger Floyd put the Maine native into the four-figure win category.

John Calabrese and Maria De Bruijn barreled from off the speed and powered to victory in their respective $9,000 divisions of the American Harness Drivers Club (AHDC) Trot at Freehold Raceway on Saturday afternoon (May 20).

Mister Hercules, a 6-year-old trotter owned by Le Trot president Jean-Pierre Barjon, was a heroic winner in the one-mile HKH Prins Daniels race at Gävle, north of Stockholm, Saturday afternoon (May 20) for Örjan Kihlström in 1.52.1 by a short head over Click Bait with Per Lennartsson.

On Higher Ground shipped in from Yonkers to Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on Saturday afternoon (May 20) and promptly won the $25,000 Preferred Trot in 1:51.4, a new mark and the fastest trotting mile of the year at The Downs.

Southwind Amazon, the third winningest Standardbred of all time with 126 career tallies, headlines the featured $10,800 Open Pace this Saturday (May 20) at Northville Downs.

Driver Nick Graffam won the featured $6,500 Winners Over Pace on Friday (May 19) at Cumberland with The Bird Dance N, moving to within one win of 1,000 in his career.

Trainer Nancy Takter had some serious expectations for her 3-year-old colt Christchurch at the Meadowlands Friday night (May 19), and in the aftermath of his performance in non-winners of two, he marked himself as a big-time player for the July 15 Meadowlands Pace. Christchurch put on an awesome display of power in his first start of the year after a pair of eye-popping qualifiers, drubbing five overmatched foes in 1:49.3, the second fastest mile of 2023 put up by a 3-year-old male pacer.