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After watching horses go wire-to-wire for five straight races starting in the second, backers of Periculum could not have been all that happy in the early stages of the Friday night, May 24 feature at The Meadowlands, a $24,658 high-end conditioned event for trotters.

Returning to action off a three-week layoff, Summit City Sonny stepped back up to the Open trotting ranks at Saratoga Casino Hotel and was a wire-to-wire winner in Monday afternoon's $20,270 feature.

Caught in the crosshairs of one of North America's most farcical decisions is harness racing trainer Kevin McDermott. A man who has had a near-lifetime involvement in the sport having trained horses since the age of 23 (1990). He’s trained grand circuit performers such as Hypnotic Blue Chip, the first-ever 1:47 pacer on Hambletonian Day.

Caught in the crosshairs of one of North America's most farcical decisions is harness racing trainer Kevin McDermott. A man who has had a near-lifetime involvement in the sport having trained horses since the age of 23 (1990). He’s trained grand circuit performers such as Hypnotic Blue Chip, the first-ever 1:47 pacer on Hambletonian Day.

Summit City Sonny posted three second place finishes in a row before finding his way back to the winner's circle at Saratoga Casino Hotel, winning the $15,000 Winners Over/Open Handicap Trot on Sunday (Oct. 15) afternoon.

Two of the sport’s brightest stars, Confederate and Geocentric, sparkled on a superb 10-race card which offered $3.4 million in prize money and included eight $400,000 Kentucky Championship finals and two $100,000 Kentucky Commonwealth Series finals for freshman and sophomore trotters and pacers on Sunday (Sept. 17) at Red Mile.

On Monday (Aug. 14) Red Mile hosted 11 second round sire stakes divisions for freshman and sophomore colts and fillies of both gaits. Its My Show returned to his winning ways in style in the $80,000 second leg of the Kentucky Sire Stakes Series for three-year-old male pacers with a world record equaling mile in 1:46.4.

Driver Bruce Ranger and trainer Domenico Cecere put on a clinic in their respective positions as they both set performance records at Plainridge Park on Monday afternoon (July 17). 

Overcast skies and a rain-laden track were the conditions to be dealt with on Monday (July 10) at Plainridge Park, but speedy miles were the call of the day for the many trotters that went postward with the fastest of the group posted by Marquis Lafayette who notched a new lifetime mark while winning the featured $25,000 Open for the diagonal gaited.

Raptors Flight N has been raging recently. In fact, the 10-year-old gelded son of Bettors Delight-Circus Flyer has been a cash machine for his connections of late, as the $20,000 claimer recorded his fourth straight victory Saturday night (June 3) at The Meadowlands in a $20,000-$25,000 claiming handicap for pacers.