There was a rather large assembly in attendance for the International Trot at Yonkers Raceway. Most noticeable from the outset was an impressive group from Norway assembled outside of the Empire Terrace dining room. It wasn’t the first time I had witnessed such a display of affection for a standardbred. Such passionate behavior is routine at major International races throughout Europe.
There was a dead heat in one of the richest Quarter Horse races of the meet at Zia Park on Sunday, when Game Changes and Miss Feet Down First hit the wire together in the Grade 2, $297,831 Hobbs America Futurity.
Trip Notes for October 10: Knickerbocker and Queen Elizabeth II by Michael Hammersly.
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Surfside Tiara, seventh in the Del Mar Debutante, became the third filly trained by Jerry Hollendorfer to come out of the Del Mar Debutante and win a stakes at Santa Anita when she won the $74,000 Anoakia Stakes at six furlongs.
Raised a Secret ran down front-running favorite Richard’s Boy in the closing strides, edging the favorite by a head to score his first stakes victory in the $100,105 Harris Farm Stakes at the Big Fresno Fair on Sunday.
The favored maiden Conquest Enforcer ran away and hid from his opponents Sunday in the $251,600 Cup and Saucer Stakes, a 1 1/16-mile turf test for juveniles.
Seen It All Before ($22.70) edged out Kingsport with determination and survived an inquiry Sunday to capture the $127,400 Bunty Lawless Stakes at Woodbine.
Race plans for the Saturday stakes winners Dressed in Hermes and Stays in Vegas were uncertain as of Sunday morning, while plans were more defined for Mirage, who finished a troubled second to Stays in Vegas in the $101,500 Surfer Girl Stakes on turf at Santa Anita.
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