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All the preparations are complete and the anticipation to see the horses go behind the gate is high as live harness racing is set to return to Genesee County on Wednesday, July 22.
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Matt Rose's analysis of the Tuesday 7/21 card at Yonkers Raceway.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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$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.
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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.
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In an exciting race that featured a thrilling finish, Twin Joe B Fresh won her third race of the year and eclipsed the $3 million mark in lifetime earnings after she won the Grade 3 $150,000 Clara Barton Distaff Pace for older mares on Sunday at Plainridge Park in 1:48 1/5.
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Hall of Fame driver David Miller picked up the drive behind Miki And Minnie and gave the 4-year-old mare a perfect steer to capture Saturday's $100,000 Cleopatra Invitational for older pacing mares at Scioto Downs in a sizzling 1:48 3/5 mile.
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Pacer Topville Lucky and trotter Victorianas Secret won the $100,000 Nadia Lobell and Moni Maker for sophomore fillies on Saturday night at Scioto Downs.
All the preparations are complete and the anticipation to see the horses go behind the gate is high as live harness racing is set to return to Genesee County on Wednesday, July 22.
Matt Rose's analysis of the Tuesday 7/21 card at Yonkers Raceway.
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.
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.
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.
$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.
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.
In an exciting race that featured a thrilling finish, Twin Joe B Fresh won her third race of the year and eclipsed the $3 million mark in lifetime earnings after she won the Grade 3 $150,000 Clara Barton Distaff Pace for older mares on Sunday at Plainridge Park in 1:48 1/5.
Hall of Fame driver David Miller picked up the drive behind Miki And Minnie and gave the 4-year-old mare a perfect steer to capture Saturday's $100,000 Cleopatra Invitational for older pacing mares at Scioto Downs in a sizzling 1:48 3/5 mile.
Pacer Topville Lucky and trotter Victorianas Secret won the $100,000 Nadia Lobell and Moni Maker for sophomore fillies on Saturday night at Scioto Downs.
