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Yonkers: Analysis for Thursday 8/20/26
Greg Reinhart's analysis of the Thursday 8/20 card at Yonkers Raceway.
Greg ReinhartAug 18, 2026
Greg Reinhart's analysis of the Thursday 8/20 card at Yonkers Raceway.
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Brad Free's Del Mar Horses to Watch for the week of Aug. 13-16, 2026
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Gaffalione will serve a four-day suspension, Thursday through Sundday, after he was cited by the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority for misuse of the whip during the running of the third race at Saratoga on Aug. 8.
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The world of harness racing is generally confined inside the fences surrounding the track. What happens on the racetrack in the five-minute post parade and two-minute race does not nearly define the breadth of the 24/7 life of a horseperson.
A new group of Maryland Sire Stakes contenders stepped onto the track Monday night at Ocean Downs as the first preliminary leg for 2-year-old colts and geldings got underway.
Debt Free and Iluvmymoni, two geldings by sire Ready For Moni, got the job done in a pair $75,000 Ohio Sires Staes splits for 2-year-old colt and gelding trotters on Monday night.
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The Red Mile had a 16-race pari-mutuel card on Monday led by a Kentucky Championship Series tilt for 2-year-old filly trotters, and also completed the stakes from the early cancelation on Sunday night, including a Kentucky Championship Series race for rookie pacing fillies.
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Those watching the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes and Stallion Series are very used to seeing sons and daughters of sire Captain Corey sail away, sail away, sail away in the stretch to victory. Captain Corey swept the two PaSS divisions of the third preliminary round for rookie filly trotters Monday afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania: with Orinoco, who followed two Sires seconds with a win, and then Two Day Hangover, now two-for-two in the Sires while handling an off-track brought out by mid-card rain.
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Trainer Tony Beaton swept both C$100,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Leg 3 events for 2-year-old pacing fillies on Monday (Aug. 17) at Woodbine Mohawk Park and, in the process, reached both 500 career wins and surpassed C$15 million in earnings.
Sharp Seven was a front-stepping 1:56 3/5 winner of a $115,000 New York Sire Stakes contest for sophomore trotting fillies on Monday afternoon at Monticello Raceway.