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Tempting Flames set a new track record Tuesday (August 18) at Eldorado Scioto Downs while equaling the world record on a five-eighths-mile track for a 2-year-old filly pacer. Racing in the second of two $75,000 Ohio Sires Stakes splits, Tempting Flames hit the wire in 1:50, tying the divisional standard set by Beach Cowgirl in 2022.
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Madam Cheval shipped from a defeat in the Grade 1 Hambletonian Oaks and ripped off the speed for a 1:51 victory in the $80,000 Kentucky Championship Series second preliminary for 3-year-old trotting fillies, while Sea Bistro Hanover torched the track earlier in the card with a 1:47 1/5 mile in the $80,000 second preliminary dash for sophomore pacing glamor boys.
Ake Svanstedt catch-drove Seven Thirds and then piloted his own trainee Kountry Plunge to triumphs in two New York Sire Stakes races for 2-year-old filly trotters on Tuesday at Saratoga Casino Hotel.
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Kevin Plowcha's analysis of the Thursday 8/20 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
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Greg Reinhart's analysis of the Thursday 8/20 card at Yonkers Raceway.
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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.
Tempting Flames set a new track record Tuesday (August 18) at Eldorado Scioto Downs while equaling the world record on a five-eighths-mile track for a 2-year-old filly pacer. Racing in the second of two $75,000 Ohio Sires Stakes splits, Tempting Flames hit the wire in 1:50, tying the divisional standard set by Beach Cowgirl in 2022.
Madam Cheval shipped from a defeat in the Grade 1 Hambletonian Oaks and ripped off the speed for a 1:51 victory in the $80,000 Kentucky Championship Series second preliminary for 3-year-old trotting fillies, while Sea Bistro Hanover torched the track earlier in the card with a 1:47 1/5 mile in the $80,000 second preliminary dash for sophomore pacing glamor boys.
Ake Svanstedt catch-drove Seven Thirds and then piloted his own trainee Kountry Plunge to triumphs in two New York Sire Stakes races for 2-year-old filly trotters on Tuesday at Saratoga Casino Hotel.
Kevin Plowcha's analysis of the Thursday 8/20 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
Greg Reinhart's analysis of the Thursday 8/20 card at Yonkers Raceway.
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.
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.
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.
