“Youthful veteran” horseman Wayne Long drove career winner number 1,000 during Friday’s (July 5) racing for 2-year-olds at a two-day Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes meet at the Crawford County Fairgrounds in this northwest Pennsylvania city.
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Typhoon Banner N’s 1:48.4 fastest of Pocono season
After one of the most exciting stretch battles of the season at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, Typhoon Banner N emerged the winner in a three-horse photo, with his 1:48.4 new mark also the fastest mile of 2024 at Pocono.
Battle of the Big Mouths to raise money for New Vocations
The ‘Battle of the Big Mouths Rematch’ Saturday (July 6) at Eldorado Scioto Downs will be raising money for New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program. Donations can be made via this GoFundMe campaign.
Breakfast With The Babies continues at Big M
Breakfast With The Babies at the Meadowlands finally caught a less-than-perfect Saturday morning (July 6) after an overnight deluge, but the track remained in good shape. The skies were clearing, but the humidity was high and temperatures started out around 80 degrees and rising. There was no wind.
Cattlelac Luke lassos fourth straight win at Humboldt (Iowa)
Fireworks were not the only thing hot at Humboldt, Iowa, as harness racing lit up Thursday (July 4) and Friday (July 5) afternoons. Fans in the stands were excited to see Iowa-registered horses compete in their first series of the season.
Ohio’s top pacing colts square off Saturday at Scioto
Clever Cody and Rose Run Zane have each won the first two legs of the Ohio Sires Stakes, On Saturday night (July 6), at Eldorado Scioto Downs, the two will meet for the first time this year in a $65,000 Sires Stakes event for sophomore colt pacers.
Case puts on driving clinic at Cumberland
Walter Case Jr., the 12th-ranked driver on the all-time dash wins list, added six victories to his lifetime total on Friday (July 5) at Cumberland Raceway, bringing him to 11,395.
Tellmeitmatters, Sabonis extend streaks in Indiana Sires Stakes
Tellmeitmatters and Sabonis delivered as the favorites and extended their winning streaks in their respective fourth-round divisions of the Indiana Sires Stakes for 3-year-old pacing colts and geldings on Friday (July 5) at Harrah’s Hoosier Park.
Ascendance supreme again in Big M’s Kindergarten
The term “ascendance” is synonymous with dominance. It just so happens that trainer Linda Toscano has a horse by the same name who lived up to that synonym Friday night (July 5) at the Meadowlands in leg two of the Kindergarten Series.
No upsets in Buffalo Raceway featured events.
Buffalo Raceway presented three features on the Friday afternoon (July 5) program and all were won by the post time favorites and in gate to wire fashion.