Every spring, harness racing trainers converse, hope, and dream about their prospective 2-year-olds in training much in the same way breeders ponder about their stallion’s first crop of youngsters. What follows is an examination of the stallions who are first crop sires with statistics garnered from the US Trotting Association and some of the mares they were bred
The beautifully bred and stakes performed, Ambassador Hanover (Chapter Seven), will be saying ‘ciao’ to North America in the not too distant future with a deal reached between connections of the former Ake Svanstedt pupil to assume stallion duties on the shores of Italy for the 2024 breeding season. The 2021 Tomkin Geers winner will
It’s Academic (Uncle Peter), driven by David Miller, overcame a most difficult harness racing journey to win the $278,000 John Cashman Memorial Fan Duel Open Trot on Hambletonian day at The Meadowlands. The six-year-old, unable to use his usual tactics of joining the fray from the get-go, had to pass all of his worthy rivals with
Free For All competitors flooded The Meadowlands on Saturday night (July 1) for four stakes events: The $112,500 Six Pack mare trot, $142,260 Perfect Sting mare pace, $155,140 Crawford Farms open trot and the $158,140 Dave Brower Memorial open pace.
"I like his attitude. He seems to want to do it. Even when he didn’t trot his best gait-wise in the first qualifier for me, he still kept trotting all the way"