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Lexington, Kentucky…September 16, 2023…The Red Mile will host the finals of The Kentucky Sire Stakes Championship harness racing events on Sunday, September 17 with a blockbuster 10 race program featuring $3.4 million in purse money, including eight $400,000 finals bookended by a pair of $100,000 Kentucky Commonwealth Series Finals. Highlighting the program will be the

The Red Mile will host the finals of The Kentucky Sire Stakes Championship events on Sunday, Sept. 17 with a blockbuster 10-race program featuring $3.4 million in purse money, including eight $400,000 finals bookended by a pair of $100,000 Kentucky Commonwealth Series finals.

A trio of Simcoe Stakes divisions for three-year-old pacers were part of the stakes-filled lineup on Saturday, Sept. 9 at Woodbine Mohawk Park.

Kentucky champion French Wine outfooted Hambletonian victor Tactical Approach at odds of 28-1 in his respective division and Better Is Nice demonstrated the same blazing speed as the favourite in his $80,000 Kentucky Sire Stakes leg at The Red Mile.

The top two horses in North American harness racing were in action during the rich Sun Stakes Saturday card at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on Saturday, Aug. 19. 

"I’ve trained a lot of horses in my life, and he is a fast horse. He’s a nice horse. I’ve never had one that could really trot like him."

Harness racing driver Scott Zeron is only 34, but he already has two wins in the $1 million Hambletonian Stakes to his credit. On Saturday at the Meadowlands Racetrack, he will try to add a third. Zeron, who won the Hambletonian in 2016 with Marion Marauder and 2018 with the filly Atlanta, would join elite

Duke Of Walner rewarded his supporters as the post time favourite with a 1:54.1 triumph in the sole $80,000 division of the Kentucky Sire Stakes for two-year-old male trotters at The Red Mile on Sunday, July 30.

Based on his progression in terms of finishes, French Wine (Bar Hopping-Creamy Mimi) looks to be maturing nicely this summer. The 3-year-old male harness racing trotter won his most recent outing, a division of the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes this past Sunday at Harrah’s Philadelphia, after being third to start his campaign in late May and

"[We've] tried to find good spots for him to keep his confidence up, to race well and to race on the end of it. It’s the same as everyone else, you’re trying to manage your horse the best you can and make it to that first Saturday in August. It’s a marathon season. We’re just trying to keep him the best we can.”