French Wine paid a good price for keeping early control of the throttle, but then he never looked back while winning the $16,000 fast-class handicap trot Thursday afternoon (Aug. 21) at Harrah’s Philadelphia in 1:54.1.
Game on with Bingo Night
Dustin Jones might not have been a fan of bingo night – the event – but Bingo Night the horse is an entirely different story.
Captain Albano, Desperate Man featured in Kane Memorial
On Saturday (Aug. 23), Batavia Downs will present the 19th Robert J. Kane Memorial Invitational Pace. The 2025 edition of this signature event will have one of the most impressive groups of Open-class pacing horses ever assembled in Genesee County and is led two millionaires Captain Albano and Desperate Man.
Five rookie pacers seek third BSS win Friday
Five different horses have two wins apiece through the first three legs of the Buckeye Stallion Series for freshman colt pacers. They’ll all be going for win number three as Eldorado Scioto Downs hosts five $20,000 divisions of the fourth leg on Friday (Aug. 22).
Bicc’s Tobee from start to finish in the Margareta Wallenius-Klebergs Pokal at Solvalla
$155,000 was the purse for the winner, Bicc’s Tobee, trained by Maria Törnqvist and driven by Dwight Pieters in the prestigious Margareta Wallenius-Klebergs Pokal – formerly known as the Jubileumspokalen – a Group 1 race for 5-year-old trotters.
Adamczyk rolls to Monticello NAADA win
Andrew Adamczyk stormed for the lead up the backstretch with even-money chalk Backstreet Player and won going away in a 2:01.1 mile over a sloppy track to take the $7,500 North American Amateur Drivers Association (NAADA) Trot at Monticello Raceway on Wednesday (Aug. 20).
Midwest Yearling Sale roster posted
The roster for the 2025 Midwest Standardbred Horse Sale Yearling Sale is now posted on the sale’s website. A sortable roster with pedigree and video links will be added shortly.
Big M to race Saturday only this week
For a second straight week, the usual two-day-a-week racing schedule at the Meadowlands will be cut in half due to preseason football at MetLife Stadium, as there will be no live action this Friday (Aug. 22) before a 15-race program takes place on Saturday (Aug. 23).
Birkhold, Brewer, and Johnson win in Spring Haven Farm Ladies Driving Series
The Spring Haven Farm Ladies Driving Series recently visited the Henry County Fair in Napoleon, OH, the Allen County Fair in Lima, OH, and the Defiance County Fair in Hicksville, OH with Mary Birkhold, Bobbie Jo Brewer and Christina Johnson recording wins.
Miracle Maven, Martz Seven score stakes wins at Hoosier
Sophomore trotting fillies took to the track at Harrah’s Hoosier Park with a pair of $49,000 splits for the sixth leg of Indiana Sire Stakes where Miracle Maven and Martz Seven got back in the win column on Wednesday (Aug. 20).