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Harrah's Hoosier Park will play host two a pair of Grade 1 events on Friday, Sept. 18, with the $475,100 Peter Haughton Memorial and $483,350 Jim Doherty Memorials for the sport's top 2-year-old trotters headlining the 15-race program which gets underway at 5:30 p.m. (EDT).
MGM Yonkers Raceway remained carryover central this week as the late Pick 4 went unsolved on Wednesday night (September 16), meaning there will be $5,825.55 in the pot when that sequence occurs on Thursday (September 17). The pool will also be guaranteed at $20,000.
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Trainer Cherie DeVaux was pleased with So Sandy’s training into a comeback race after a long layoff, pleased with the result, and pleased with the way So Sandy came out of his win July 18 at Ellis Park. But that does not mean DeVaux was in any hurry to run the horse back.
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Matt Rose's analysis of the Friday 9/18 card at Yonkers Raceway.
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Kevin Plowcha's analysis of the Friday 9/18 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
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Following his win in the MGM Yonkers International Trot this past weekend, Super Chapter ascended to No. 1 in the Week 14 edition of the Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown poll released Wednesday (Sept. 16).
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When the 5-year-old mare Reagan's Flame first entered Saffie Joseph Jr.‘s barn in the spring, the trainer immediately thought to cut her back to sprint distances on synthetic. She has won two graded stakes since and will go for her third in the Grade 2 Presque Isle Downs Masters Stakes on Friday.
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Group race targets are under consideration for Le Zonda after the exciting galloper extended his winning streak to three with success in the Class 2 Shek O Handicap for Pierre Ng and Vincent Ho at Happy Valley on Wednesday night.
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For as much fanfare as the new grandstand will receive when Belmont opens for racing Friday – its first live racing in more than 38 months – it is really the new racing surfaces that will have the most relevance to horsemen.
California trainers Jesus Nunez and Ramiro Zuazo have received length suspensions and four-figure fines for medication violations found in their Quarter Horse runners earlier this year.
