Engblom Stable News Today

Dean Eckley made all the right moves heading into Monday (April 22) afternoon’s $23,973 championship of the Game Of Claims Pacing Series for horses base-tagged at $13,699, and reaped the benefits with a 1-2 finish headed by Team Mac and his 1:51.4 victory at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. 

Global Believer S made a believer of a field of quality trotters at Bally’s Dover after he won his second straight Open Handicap on Tuesday night (Dec. 19).

Kodack Black completed a clean sweep of the Delaware Standardbred Breeders' Fund (DSBF) series for three-year-old male trotters — and captured his second divisional title in the First State this season — with a commanding 1:57.3 win in the $110,000 final on Tuesday, Dec. 12 at Bally's Dover.

Drivers Yannick Gingras and Tim Tetrick took down all of the big money as the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes and Stallion Series two-year-old trotting males raced their first preliminary leg on another hot afternoon Friday, July 14 at Harrah’s Philadelphia.

Railee Something turned the Pennsylvania Sires Stake at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows on Saturday (May 20) into a personal showcase as she routed the field by 11-1/2 lengths in an eye-popping 1:52.3 in the slop. 

Yannick Gingras had, what for him, was just another night at the salt mine on Friday night (April 21) at The Meadowlands, as the 43-year-old Hall of Fame pilot won both $40,000 Standardbred Retirement Foundation Series finals for three-year-olds.

Drivers Tyler Buter and Scott Zeron both won a pair of divisions of the first round of the John Brennan Trotting Series on Wednesday night (April 5) at MGM Yonkers Raceway. Each of the six sections carried a purse of $25,000.

Crantini went a 1:56.2 mile to win his second-consecutive Pennsylvania Sire Stakes (PASS) outing during the Thursday afternoon (July 21) card at Harrah’s Philadelphia, while French Wine broke his maiden while going three-fifths of a second faster in capturing the other $75,816 division.

Hambletonian hopeful Chulo made a misstep in his most recent outing May 28 at The Meadowlands, but trainer Per Engblom is looking for the colt to rebound in the second of Friday’s two $30,000 eliminations of the Goodtimes Stakes for three-year-old trotters at Woodbine Mohawk Park.

The Pennsylvania-sired state program returned to Harrah’s Philadelphia on Wednesday (May 11), with two divisions of Sire Stakes and four divisions of Stallion Series competition for three-year-old trotting fillies.