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.
OHHA’s Trackside Live to feature Jay Wolf and the Steck family on Sunday
The Ohio Harness Horsemen’s Association (OHHA) will kick off day one of “Five Days in Delaware” on Sunday morning (Sept. 14) with Trackside Live and special guests Jay Wolf and the Steck family.
Goshen Yearling Sale coming up on Monday
This is your last reminder that the 2025 Goshen Yearling Sale will be held at noon on Monday (Sept. 15) at the Mark Ford Training Center in Middletown, N.Y.
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.
Nicole Kraft named 2025 Tom White Media Award winner
The Little Brown Jug and the Delaware County Fair have named veteran journalist Nicole Kraft as the recipient of the 2025 Tom White Media Award.