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Drivers Brady Jenson and Todd Warren traded wins throughout the night and each posted a triple on the Thursday night (July 11) harness racing program at Running Aces.

Maine-bred pacing fillies highlight the weekend at First Tracks Cumberland with the 3-year-olds on Friday (July 12) competing in two $16,421 divisions of the Maine Sire Stakes, followed by a single $16,071 division for 2-year-olds on Saturday (July 13).

After four stops in the Spring Haven Farm Ladies Driving Series, Heather Woolums leads the pack of 15 lady drivers with 110 points. Jazmin Arnold sits in the runner-up spot with 75 points. Alesha Binkley, Lauren Harmon, Mandy Jones, and Ann Russell are tied for third with 60 points each.

Indiana Sire Stakes action continued at Harrah’s Hoosier Park with round one of six for the 2-year-old trotting colts and geldings on Thursday (July 11). Three divisions highlighted the 14-race card seeing Twofiftychamp, Tarzan and Eugene The Genius all remain perfect in their young careers.

Driver Russell Foster and trainer Crissy Crissman-Bier combined to win two of Thursday’s (July 11) four $7,500 first-round divisions of the Diane ‘Mum’ Stevenson Memorial Series, for $7,500 claiming pacers, at Ocean Downs.

Cowgirl Hanover improved to three-for-three in her career and came up just two-fifths of a second short of the MGM Yonkers Raceway track record for a 2-year-old pacing filly when she won the second of two $74,500 New York Sire Stakes divisions on Thursday night (July 11) at Yonkers in 1:53.3. Earlier on the program, Send It Down Slim prevailed in 1:56.2.

It’s rare for a harness racing trainer to condition a division champion in back-to-back years; however, when Whiskey Lou was named the best in her division, it gave Illinois horseman Curt Grummel an even more unique accomplishment: his third consecutive Illinois Conceived and Foaled 2-year-old filly trot titleholder.

Benefitting from a perfect trip, Big Al M brushed late to victory in the $20,000 Open Handicap Trot at Plainridge Park on Thursday (July 11).

The horses and horsepeople to be racing at the Lycoming County Fair for the most part had two kinds of luck: not-so-good and then bad.