Weather permitting, qualifiers will be held at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield on Wednesday (Aug. 20). Post time is 11 a.m.
Mique Ann Malibashka, 76, dies
Mique Ann Malibashka, 76, of Cream Ridge, New Jersey, passed away on Aug. 16, 2025.
Polansky prevails, Calabrese doubles in AHDC events
Mike Polansky pounced off a pocket ride to win the $10,000 American Harness Drivers Club (AHDC) trot at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on Sunday night (Aug. 17) while John Calabrese bagged two of the three AHDC pace events at Harrah’s Philadelphia earlier in the day.
Escaper placed as Wiseman Memorial Trot winner
Top trotters were in the spotlight at Running Aces on Sunday (Aug. 17), including the $30,000 Steve Wiseman Memorial Trot final.
Ginger Tree Lex three-for-three in PASS racing
The Bar Hopping filly Ginger Tree Lex marked herself as a freshman trotter to watch for in upcoming major races by winning her fifth consecutive start, all stakes and three of them Pennsylvania Sire Stakes, with a lifetime-best 1:54.3 in a division of her third preliminary PASS round Sunday night at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania during $217,154 of PA-sired stakes competition.
Budding star Brandon Blvd remains perfect at Red Mile
On another hot and humid Sunday (Aug. 17), Brandon Blvd once again strutted his stuff at The Red Mile to remain a perfect four-for-four in his young career with a 1:50.1 triumph in the $80,000 third round leg of the Kentucky Championship Series for 2-year-old male pacers.
Menhammar yearling auction up 30 percent
The average price rose to 211,200 kroner compared to 161,981 kroner last year at Menhammar Stud’s yearling sale on the internet.
Freshman faster than sophomores at Meadville (PA)
The Pennsylvania fair circuit returned to the Crawford County Fairgrounds in this northwest Pennsylvania city on Saturday (August 16) and Sunday (August 17), and perhaps it was the warmer weather and better surface. Still, the two-year-olds that opened the weekend generated the quickest miles on both their gaits for the two-day stand.
Frosh pacing fillies close out Skowhegan (ME)
A pair of $17,000-plus divisions of the Maine Sire Stakes for 2-year-old pacing fillies closed out the week of harness racing at the Skowhegan State Fair on Saturday (Aug. 16) with a baker’s dozen vying for their own piece of the pie.
Christopher Dance N takes first US win at Philly
Christopher Dance N, who had bad luck in his U.S. debut at The Meadowlands, opened his American win count with a 1:51.3 victory in the $14,000 feature for up-and-coming pacers on a muggy Sunday afternoon at Harrah’s Philadelphia.