Eternal Camnation will make her 2004 Canadian debut Friday in the $48,000 Fillies and Mares Open pace at Mohawk.

After 12 failed attempts, Up Front Brad finally finished — up front. He did it emphatically, setting a Bye Bye Byrd (Pennsylvania Sire Stakes) record by winning in 1:51.3 at The Meadows.

Three $6,000 divisions of the opening round of the Swing Back pacing series for three-year-old pacing fillies were decided at Freehold Raceway on Thursday.

Todd Adams and Chad Tate’s Voo Doo Raider coasted to a wire-to-wire win in the $35,500 Adios Harry Final Wednesday at Harrington Raceway in 1:55.3.

Bonnie Rae Cronin, a volunteer with the American Standardbred Adoption Program in Wisconsin, drowned in a flash flood of the Bad Axe River in Wisconsin over the weekend.

Beissinger Hanover is off to a great start this season with three wins in four starts, one of those a victory in the Dexter Cup Final. He is just one of several prominsing three-year-olds from the first crop of Hambletonian winner Self Possessed.

Jett Away equaled the track record for four-year-old pacing mares on Tuesday with a 1:54 win in Harrington Raceway’s featured $15,000 Filly and Mare Open Pace.

A field of nine diagonally gaited state-breds squared off in the $10,000 Mr Magoo Stake on Tuesday at Balmoral Park.

Jimmy Shields won Monticello Raceway’s Heavyweight Driving Championship on Tuesday with the pacer Three Finger Brown.

An old face absent from the Chicago circuit distaff ranks for the last 18 months returns to give Wednesday’s $11,500 conditioned pace a new look.