The rain and thunderclouds held up on Saturday (July 8) night and there were plenty of exciting races on the card, including both Meadowlands Amateur Driving Club events.
Cannibal, Confederate take Meadowlands Pace elims; Confederate morning-line fave for final
Cannibal and Confederate won Saturday’s (July 8) $50,000 Meadowlands Pace eliminations for 3-year-old pacers at The Meadowlands and will start the $668,000 final on July 15 from posts four and five, respectively.
Kyle Swift earns first career driving victory
The number 13 has always had the connotation of being bad luck. For driver Kyle Swift, it was anything but that.
St. Louis earns 500th career training win at Northville Downs
Last Bet and driver Marc St. Louis, Jr. closed like a freight train to get up for the win in the Saturday (July 8) night Northville Downs featured Open 1 Pace in 1:54 flat.
Stonebridge Helios holds; Dunn, Svanstedt sweep Graduate Finals
One race after Jiggy Jog S strolled to victory in the final for the Graduate Series Trot, the tandem of driver Dexter Dunn and trainer Ake Svanstedt united on another odds-on promise in Stonebridge Helios and secured the spoils in the $240,000 Graduate Series Pace – for pacing 4-year-olds – on Saturday night (July 8) at The Meadowlands.
Jiggy Jog S trounces male foes in Graduate Trot Final
Jiggy Jog S, the magnificent 4-year-old Walner mare driven by Dexter Dunn, made one sweeping move on her seven male trotting foes to get the lead and then drew off to punctuate her dominance and win the $230,000 Graduate Series Trot Final on Saturday (July 8) at The Meadowlands.
Kinght Angels wins Tioga feature
Knight Angel (Tyler Miller) took the $10,500 featured Open 2 Trot at Tioga Downs on Saturday (July 8).
Bettors Donttell gritty in Pocono feature win
Bettors Donttell, who looked to be the worst-placed of the four main contenders in Saturday (July 8) afternoon’s $18,500 pacing feature at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, showed great gameness to go on to a 1:49.4 victory.
Ari Ferrari J captures $350,000 Zweig Memorial at Vernon Downs
Ari Ferrari J (Dexter Dunn) captured the $350,000 Dr. Harry M. Zweig Memorial Open Trot for 3-year-old trotters on Saturday (July 8).
Talented teamsters at Bangor Raceway
While driver Dan Deslandes held the hot hand once again at Bangor Raceway on Friday (July 7) there were certainly plenty of other accolades to go around during the first Friday session of the 2023 season.