Driver Aaron Hall dominated the action at Bangor Raceway on Friday (June 26), scoring five commanding victories over the course of the nine-race program while inching to within one victory of notching his 1,000th career win.
Endurance sets Currier & Ives record
The Friday (June 26) harness racing card at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows gave racing fans a featured attraction in the Currier & Ives Trot for 3-year-old colts and geldings, along with a glimpse of the future in two Pop-Up Series divisions for 2-year-old pacing fillies.
‘Gentleman’ clubs foes in Big M Pace prep
Friday night’s (June 26) feature at the Meadowlands was a high-end conditioned pace for 3-year-old colts and geldings, but it might as well have been written as a Meadowlands Pace Prep, with six of the seven entrants eligible to the track’s signature event, which will have eliminations – if necessary – on Saturday, July 4.
Swiss Lights stuns in Indiana Sires Stakes victory
Swiss Lights, driven by Trace Tetrick for trainer Jeff Cullipher, spoiled the Hoosier homecoming of Odds On Mr Mamba as the Rockin Image gelding pulled off a mild 9-2 upset in the $95,000 third leg of the Indiana Sires Stakes for 3-year-old male pacers on a wet Friday night (June 26) at Hoosier Park.
Lebanon (Ky.) fair races postponed to Sun.
Due to heavy rain, poor track conditions, and concerns of more storms rolling in later in the day, racing at the Marion County Fair, in Lebanon, Ky., for Saturday (June 27), consisting of the 3-year-old Kentucky Proud Series card, has been postponed until Sunday (June 28) at noon (EDT).
Miki Ray rallies to win Tioga series final
Miki Ray (Mike Merton) captured the $24,000 Jack Rossi Memorial Claiming Series final at Tioga Downs on Friday (June 26).
Chapvious wins Vernon trot
Chapvious (Leon Bailey) captured the $7,500 featured trot on Friday (June 26) at Vernon Downs.
Bender scores 1,000th win
Driver Atlee Bender scored the 1,000th win of his career on Friday (June 26) when he steered 2-year-old pacing filly Aww Suki Suki Na to a 2:01.2 win for owner-trainer Joey Ayotte in the first of 18 Kentucky Proud events at the Lebanon, Ky., fairgrounds.
Inexpressable rallies to MGM Yonkers Trot title
Add an extra quarter of a mile to the $250,000 Grade 2 MGM Yonkers Trot, and you have a recipe for a wild finish. That proved to be the case on Friday night (June 26) when Inexpressable and driver Tim Tetrick rallied off of a third-over cover trip and charged by the field to capture the opening leg of Trotting’s Triple Crown at MGM Yonkers Raceway.
Fragment first in MGM Grand Messenger Stakes final
Fragment, who was last year’s New York Sire Stakes, Big Apple and Matron winner, rebounded off a third-place finish in the sire stakes most recently at Buffalo to capture the Grade 2 $200,000 MGM Grand Messenger Stakes final for 3-year-old male pacers on Friday night (June 26) at MGM Yonkers Raceway. The Messenger, which was conducted at the distance of a mile and a quarter this year, is the first leg of the Pacing Triple Crown.