:quality(75))
Best Chip and driver-trainer Joe Bongiorno followed up an impressive victory in the Canadian Pacing Derby a week earlier with an inspiring front-end performance, holding on gamely to capture the $200,000 Grade 2 Aria Invitational as part of Saturday's International Trot Day program at MGM Yonkers Raceway, pacing to a 2:20 4/5 clocking in the mile and one quarter contest.
:quality(75)){kind=logo}
Kevin Plowcha's analysis of the Monday 9/14 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
:quality(75))
Tioga Downs played host for the W.N. Reynolds Memorial races for 2-year-olds on Friday (September 11).
:quality(75))
Hambletonian champion Apex made amends from a defeat in his New Jersey Classic elimination to win the $250,000 final for 3-year-old trotting colts and geldings authoritatively with a 1:52 2/5 effort on Friday night (Sept. 11) at the Meadowlands.
:quality(75))
Before teaming Hambletonian champion Apex to victory in the New Jersey Classic for 3-year-old male trotters, Dexter Dunn swept the event's sophomore pacing divisions, piloting New Jersey Sire Stakes Platinum champions Be Perfect BG and Bookie J to odds-on scores in their respective $150,000 New Jersey Classic finals on Friday (Sept. 11) at the Meadowlands.
:quality(75))
R Dutchess, with Tim Tetrick at the lines, scored a mild upset after bursting free from traffic in the homestretch to win the $188,200 Girl Power Mare Trot in 1:50 3/5 at the Meadowlands on Friday (Sept. 11).
:quality(75))
If there was ever a time to break your maiden, winning a $100,000 Ohio Sires Stakes Gray Championship seems to be a good time. Three of the four 2-year-old divisions saw first time winners take the top spot - Jidoo Bythesea (2CP, 1:54 1/5), Dancin Miki (2FP, 1:53 2/5) and Kikionamission (2FT, 1:56 2/5). The Friday (September 11) card at Eldorado Scioto Downs kicked off Ohio Super Weekend, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Ohio Sires Stakes program.
:quality(75))
Indiana Sire Stakes action dominated the Friday, Sept. 11 program at Harrah's Hoosier Park, with the penultimate leg of stakes action contested for 2-year-old pacers and 3-year-old trotters, while the aged stars took aim at their second and final leg.
:quality(75))
Grand Circuit season at Woodbine Mohawk Park continued Friday evening with the Grade 3 Champlain Stakes for 2-year-old trotters. A total of four Champlain divisions, two open and two for fillies, were held on a clear evening at the Campbellville, Ontario, oval.
:quality(75))
Cher Hill blasted up the inside and pulled away from the field to dominate the lone C$150,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Leg 5 division for 3-year-old trotting fillies on Friday (Sept. 11) at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
Best Chip and driver-trainer Joe Bongiorno followed up an impressive victory in the Canadian Pacing Derby a week earlier with an inspiring front-end performance, holding on gamely to capture the $200,000 Grade 2 Aria Invitational as part of Saturday's International Trot Day program at MGM Yonkers Raceway, pacing to a 2:20 4/5 clocking in the mile and one quarter contest.
Kevin Plowcha's analysis of the Monday 9/14 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
Tioga Downs played host for the W.N. Reynolds Memorial races for 2-year-olds on Friday (September 11).
Hambletonian champion Apex made amends from a defeat in his New Jersey Classic elimination to win the $250,000 final for 3-year-old trotting colts and geldings authoritatively with a 1:52 2/5 effort on Friday night (Sept. 11) at the Meadowlands.
Before teaming Hambletonian champion Apex to victory in the New Jersey Classic for 3-year-old male trotters, Dexter Dunn swept the event's sophomore pacing divisions, piloting New Jersey Sire Stakes Platinum champions Be Perfect BG and Bookie J to odds-on scores in their respective $150,000 New Jersey Classic finals on Friday (Sept. 11) at the Meadowlands.
R Dutchess, with Tim Tetrick at the lines, scored a mild upset after bursting free from traffic in the homestretch to win the $188,200 Girl Power Mare Trot in 1:50 3/5 at the Meadowlands on Friday (Sept. 11).
If there was ever a time to break your maiden, winning a $100,000 Ohio Sires Stakes Gray Championship seems to be a good time. Three of the four 2-year-old divisions saw first time winners take the top spot - Jidoo Bythesea (2CP, 1:54 1/5), Dancin Miki (2FP, 1:53 2/5) and Kikionamission (2FT, 1:56 2/5). The Friday (September 11) card at Eldorado Scioto Downs kicked off Ohio Super Weekend, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Ohio Sires Stakes program.
Indiana Sire Stakes action dominated the Friday, Sept. 11 program at Harrah's Hoosier Park, with the penultimate leg of stakes action contested for 2-year-old pacers and 3-year-old trotters, while the aged stars took aim at their second and final leg.
Grand Circuit season at Woodbine Mohawk Park continued Friday evening with the Grade 3 Champlain Stakes for 2-year-old trotters. A total of four Champlain divisions, two open and two for fillies, were held on a clear evening at the Campbellville, Ontario, oval.
Cher Hill blasted up the inside and pulled away from the field to dominate the lone C$150,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Leg 5 division for 3-year-old trotting fillies on Friday (Sept. 11) at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
