:quality(75))
Top contenders stretch out in pair of allowances
Horseplayers must solve a pair of sprint-to-route riddles Thursday in Del Mar allowance races – fillies and mares on turf, and California-bred colts and geldings on dirt.
Brad FreeJul 20, 2026
Horseplayers must solve a pair of sprint-to-route riddles Thursday in Del Mar allowance races – fillies and mares on turf, and California-bred colts and geldings on dirt.
:quality(75))
Flying Black peaked around this time last year and should make some noise in Thursday's fourth race at Woodbine, a $25,000 claiming inner turf route for fillies and mares.
:quality(75))
After recent cancelations due to unsafe air quality forced changes to the schedule, Woodbine Mohawk Park ended up hosting a total of five Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Series splits on Sunday.
:quality(75))
American Power and Setyoursightshigh gave trainer Marcus Melander victories in both the $300,000 Dr. Harry M. Zweig Memorial for colts and geldings and the $139,0000 filly companion event on Sunday night at Vernon Downs. The Grade 2 events for 3-year-old trotters headlined a 14-race all-stakes program.
:quality(75))
Two-year-old pacers of both sexes were in action on Sunday night at Vernon Downs in New York Sire Stakes action. Driver Todd McCarthy teamed up with trainer Noel Daley to win both flights for the colts and geldings, while Jason Bartlett took the races for the fillies.
:quality(75))
$210,455 worth of Pennsylvania-sired stakes competition for 2-year-old pacing fillies was held during the Sunday twilight card at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, with three divisions of Sire Stakes and four of Stallion Series, but the stakes action followed in the early weekend's trend of favorites not getting the job done. This second preliminary round ended with no double winners in either division, and only one chalk was victorious.
:quality(75))
The 8-year-old gelding Slew's Tiz Whiz was seeking a record-setting fifth straight Governor's Stakes victory on Sunday at Emerald Downs, but the 4-year-old favorite, Si That Tiger, refused to respect his elder, cruising to a gate-to-wire, 1 3/4-length victory.
:quality(75))
The expected tactics of Sunday’s $101,500 Wickerr Stakes at Del Mar changed remarkably when expected pacesetter Captain Choochies stumbled at the start. Race favorite King of Gosford inherited the lead and kept it throughout the one-mile turf race, winning the sixth stakes of his accomplished career.
:quality(75))
Longshot G T Five Hundred gave trainer Dale Desruisseaux his second stakes victory on Sunday’s Woodbine Oaks card under a fine ride from Jose Campos in the Grade 2 Connaught Cup.
:quality(75))
Lexus Kody, the 2025 Dan Patch Trotter of the Year, won the $300,000 G2 Spirit of Massachusetts Trot at Plainridge Park on Sunday (July 19) after an early move put him in control of the race and into the record books as the time of 1:49 4/5 broke the world record for aged trotting geldings on a five-eighths-mile track.