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It’s happening. The greatest harness racing trotter ever to head Down Under is on his way this season. Never before has a US Trotter of the Year stood in Australia or New Zealand – let alone a reigning US Trotter of the Year who achieved the feat as a three-year-old. Tactical Approach (Tactical Landing) is

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Tactical Approach, the 2023 Hambletonian, Kentucky Futurity and Breeders Crown champion, will be standing at stud in 2024.

Diamond Creek is pleased to welcome 2023 Hambletonian harness racing champion Tactical Approach (Tactical Landing-Sarcy) to their Pennsylvania stud barn for 2024. Tactical Approach, trained by Nancy Takter, is from the first crop of the red hot sire, Tactical Landing and out of the Donato Hanover mare, Sarcy, making him a half-brother to Double Deceiver

Grand Circuit stakes-winning trotter Branded By Lindy has been retired and will stand stud in 2024.

On Tuesday (Aug. 14), Red Mile conducted 10 sire stakes events for freshman and sophomore male and female of both gaits on a 16-race card. Hambletonian victor Tactical Approach made his return to the Bluegrass a triumphant one with a win in 1:51.3 in the $80,000 second leg of the Kentucky Sire Stakes Series for male sophomore trotters.

Lexington, KY --- On Tuesday (Aug. 15) Red Mile conducted 10 sire stakes harness racing events for freshman and sophomore male and female of both gaits on a 16-race card. Hambletonian victor Tactical Approach (Tactical Landing) made his return to the Bluegrass a triumphant one with a win in 1:51.3 in the $80,000 second round leg

Tactical Approach, a son of Tactical Landing, posted a major harness racing upset at 12-1, capturing the 98th edition of the $1 million Hambletonian for driver Scott Zeron in 1:50.3 Saturday (Aug. 5) at the Meadowlands. Trained by Nancy Takter for Robert Leblanc, John Fielding, Joe Sbrocco, and Jef Racing, Tactical Approach was brought up

"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