Breeders Crown champion Dandy Ideal heads a star-studded field of eight top free-for-all pacers to contest Sunday’s (Nov. 8) Grade 3 $125,000 Potomac Pace at Rosecroft Raceway.
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Dandy Ideal persists in Breeders Crown Open Pace
Elimination winner Dandy Ideal vindicated himself from a defeat in last year’s Breeders Crown and kept digging on the coals of hot fractions to seize the $662,000 Grade 1 Breeders Crown Open Pace final in a track-record-equaling 1:47.3 mile on Saturday night (Oct. 24) at Eldorado Scioto Downs.
Women Layer, Dandy Ideal triumph in Crown Open Pace elims
Women Layer and Dandy Ideal stamped their tickets to the big dance in a pair of $25,000 Breeders Crown Open Pace eliminations Saturday evening (Oct. 17) at Eldorado Scioto Downs.
Dandy Ideal matches stakes record in Dan Patch at Hoosier
A day removed from being named the home of The Hambletonian beginning in 2027, Harrah’s Hoosier Park played host to the $300,000 Dan Patch Stakes presented by Indiana Standardbred Breed Development where Dandy Ideal and driver Tyler Buter survived torrid opening fractions en route to a dominant 1:47.2 score for trainer Hunter Oakes.
Dandy Ideal equals world record at Pocono
On an unprecedented Saturday (July 11) for Standardbred speed in northeast Pennsylvania, Dandy Ideal equaled the world record for a 4-year-old pacing gelding on a five-eighths-mile track by way of a 1:47.2 win in the $27,500 top fast-class pace at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.
Dandy Ideal wins ‘millionaires’ showdown’ at Pocono
The American Ideal gelding Dandy Ideal finished with an explosive late kick to down fellow millionaires Ken Hanover and Ruthless Hanover in 1:48.3 over a “sloppy” oval while taking the $27,500 fast-class handicap pace Saturday afternoon (June 27) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.
Dandy Ideal sharp in ’26 debut at Pocono
Wilkes-Barre, PA — Dandy Ideal, winner of the 2025 Max Hempt Memorial, made his 4-year-old debut a winning one on Saturday afternoon (May 30), winning the $27,500 top fast-class event at Pocono…
Dandy Ideal sharp in readying for 4YO campaign
Dandy Ideal, one of the major players in the 3-year-old pacing male ranks last year, showed he was ready to start his 4-year-old season with a 1:52.2 victory in a Wednesday morning (May 13) qualifier at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.
Dandy Ideal, Madden Oaks win Progress elims
Matron Stakes winner Dandy Ideal and Meadowlands Pace winner Madden Oaks punched their tickets to next week’s Grade 2 Progress Pace, for 3-year-olds, with victories in their respective $35,000 eliminations on Thursday (Nov. 20) at Bally’s Dover.
Unreasonable, Dandy Ideal win EBC at Tioga
Tioga Downs played host to the Empire Breeders Classic (EBC) for sophomore pacers on Sunday (Aug. 24).