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When Best Chip puts his nose on the starting gate in Saturday's $662,000 Breeders Crown Open Pace (Race 10), it will mark the culmination of the most remarkable turnaround of a racehorse in the sport of harness racing that we have seen in quite some time. Personally, I don't know if I have ever seen a more impressive accomplishment.
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Thomas Lind-Holm was elated when Custom, a daughter of Walner, delivered her trademark strong finish in her Breeders Crown elimination last week, narrowly missing out on a win, but qualifying comfortably for the $664,550 Grade 1 final for 3-year-old filly trotters Saturday (Oct. 24) at Eldorado Scioto Downs in Columbus, Ohio.
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Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. was taken to University of Kentucky Medical Center to be evaluated for a potential injury to his left ankle after he was unseated leaving the starting gate of Friday’s ninth race at Keeneland, according to his agent Steve Rushing.
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The $7.56 million Breeders Crown rolls into Scioto Downs this weekend (Oct. 23 & 24) to mark the first time Ohio has hosted any of the championship races since the 1980s. Twelve rich finals will be contested over the Friday and Saturday 14-race cards
The Delaware harness racing circuit returns to the state’s capital city on Monday, Nov. 2, when Bally’s Dover kicks off its 2026-27 meet.
With just two legs to go before the big-money final, handicappers will be gunning to finish in the top two in the $1,000 Meadowlands Monthly Handicapping Contest on Friday (Oct. 23) night as they seek a seat in the contest final on Dec. 12.
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All of the usual suspects in one of the Mid-Atlantic's strongest divisions will knock heads again in the $100,000 Maryland Million Turf Sprint on Saturday at Laurel Park. The rivalry between Witty, Whenigettoheaven, and Had to Have Him has carried on for years and shows no signs of stopping any time soon.
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Saturday, it's Remember Mamba getting the blinkers-on treatment as one of the favorites in the Grade 2, $400,000 Bryan Station Stakes, and trainer Cherie DeVaux hopes the hood can help late-running Remember Mamba get up at a one-mile distance once thought to be shorter than the horse prefers.
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A bit of return to form can make Hit Show a contender Saturday at Keeneland in the Grade 3, $400,000 Fayette, which drew a wildly competitive and bracingly large field of older horses.
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Anybody who decided to drop in on training hours between 7:30 a.m. and 8 a.m. on Thursday at Keeneland certainly picked the right time to show up. It was a star-studded half-hour immediately after the first renovation break during which many of the marquee names of this year's Breeders' Cup card came out to train.
