There were just 10 horses entered in the eliminations for the 2024 edition of the Moores Mile Breeders Stakes on Saturday, June 8 at Century Downs, but those two $14,000 five-horse elims certainly weren't lacking for action.
Pacing filly Over Ice maintained the impressive start to her career, winning for the sixth time in seven starts to kick off Alberta Sires Stakes action on Saturday, May 19 at Century Downs.
Driver Phil Giesbrecht swept the co-featured $50,000 sophomore stakes on Friday, April 26 at Fraser Downs with Ray Gemmill Memorial upset winner Phone Nine One One and Penny Bath Memorial champion Kootenay Cocoa, who equalled the divisional track record.
For the fourth straight week, In High cotton has won the $10,000 Fillies and Mares Preferred Handicap Pace at Fraser Downs. On Thursday (April 26) evening, the six-year-old Kelly Hoerdt student made the trip from gate-to-wire to mark her 24th career triumph.
Tyler Borth became Ontario’s champion harness racing reinsman on Tuesday (Apr. 23) as he won the Ontario Regional Driving Championship at The Raceway at the Western Fair District. The driver scored 71 points, defeating reigning three-time Driver of the Year James MacDonald by 12. Borth and MacDonald will be the province’s representatives at the National
Dontpokethedragon, who lost a ten-race win streak when he was third in the final preliminary of his Game Of Claims Series group seven days ago at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, rebounded in a big way on Saturday (March 23), overcoming a rough journey to take the $47,297 Championship of the GOC event for $33784 base-tag pacers in 1:54.1 under adverse conditions. In winning, Dontpokethedragon regained the North American lead for most victories in 2024 with nine success stories before the first quarter of the year has been passed.
The second preliminary round of the Game Of Claims series for the highest-priced selling horses at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania highlighted the Saturday afternoon sloppy-track action at the northeast Pennsylvania oval.
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Veteran Surrey, B.C. horseman Gord Abbott celebrated a career milestone on Friday, Feb. 16 at Fraser Downs as he earned his 1,000th training win in the evening's second race.
Codename Cigar Box was second under the wire in the $32,000 Preferred 2 Pace at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Saturday, Feb. 10, but ultimately made it to the winner's circle as Reactor Now A, who had finished first, was placed fifth for interference.