Meadows Monday Memo
Hollywood Casino at The Meadows will race Wednesday (Sept. 2) and Thursday (Sept. 3) this week at 12:45pm, Friday evening at 5:10pm, and Saturday at 12:45pm. This will be the final 4-day race week of the summer, as this is the final Saturday of racing until late November. Next week, the track will shift to its Fall schedule, with racing Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (Sept. 4) afternoons at 12:45 p.m.
American Power Pounces, Miss Jum Jabber Pops to Kentucky Championship Series Wins
American Power emerged victorious from his first start since competing in the Grade 1 Hambletonian and Miss Jum Jabber returned after skipping the second leg to score in their respective $80,000 third-preliminary dashes of the Kentucky Championship Series on Monday afternoon (Aug. 31) at The Red Mile.
OHHA to livestream races from 19 fairs in September
The Ohio Harness Horsemen’s Association (OHHA) will showcase 37 race cards via livestreaming from 19 Ohio county and independent fairs during the month of September.
Volume Eight filly tops Danish Derby Sale
At the Danish Derby Sale, held at Charlottenlund Racetrack outside Copenhagen in connection with the Copenhagen Cup, a filly yearling by Volume Eight became the sale’s most expensive horse.
Beau Jangles back to winning ways in OSS Gold
Beau Jangles surpassed C$2 million lifetime and equaled his 1:48.3 career-best mile with a victory in the lone C$150,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold leg four test for 3-year-old pacing colts and geldings on Sunday (Aug. 30) at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
Charlie May set to defend at Canfield (OH)
Charlie May will come back to the Canfield Fair in Canfield, Ohio, to defend his crown in the 2026 Canfield Pacing Derby ( Signature Series ).
She’s Spicy sets track record at the Windsor Fair
She’s Spicy added a touch of flavor to the second session of harness racing of the 2026 meeting at the Windsor Fair on Sunday (Aug. 30), speeding round the lightning quick oval to establish a divisional track record at the 138-year-old mid-Maine agricultural exhibition.
Iron Sharpens Iron takes Aces feature with career-best mile
The top trotters were in the spotlight at Running Aces on Sunday night (Aug. 30) for the $17,000 Open Handicap, which offered a very accomplished and talented field of seven contenders.
Maine’s top colts wrangle at Windsor Fair
The Monsters of the Midway invaded Windsor Fair on Sunday (Aug. 30) with two $17,000 Pine Tree State-bred splits of 3-year-old male pacers vying for divisional supremacy at one of Maine’s historic agricultural fairs.
Schedule for Pennsylvania-sired pari-mutuel championships
With the last preliminary rounds of the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes and Pennsylvania Stallion Series completed on Sunday (Aug. 30), there’s scant time to catch one’s breath before this coming Labor Day Weekend’s staging of the Championship events of these pari-mutuel programs for the premier Pennsylvania-sired 2- and 3-year-olds, in aggregate worth over $3 million for the cream of the Pennsylvania crop.