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Island Of The Sea rocketed to victory in the Open Handicap Pace at Bally's Dover on Thursday night (March 23).

For the first time in 2021, Yonkers Raceway will play host to stakes action next Tuesday (March 2) and Wednesday (March 3) as the M Life Rewards Ladies and M Life Rewards Gents Series begin. Both events are for three-year-old and four-year-old pacers who were non-winners of four races and/or $50,000 through December 1, 2020. The fillies kick things off on Tuesday night with three $15,000 divisions. Pettycoat Business, a four-year-old daughter of Art Major who won her Empire Breeders Classic eli...

A pair of fan favourites sat atop the marquee in the co-featured $22,500 winners-over $11,500 events on Saturday (Feb. 13) at The Meadowlands, one on the pace and the other on the trot. Tulhurstsantanna A worked an ideal trip in pulling off a 21-1 upset in the pace. The driver of the eight-year-old gelded son of Santanna Blue Chip-Ballroom Belle had designs on leaving the gate, but Andy McCarthy thought better of it. “I put his nose on the gate and thought about stepping out,” said McCarthy...

Fan-favourite JL Cruze came back to his favourite track and took the featured $22,500 high-end conditioned trot in impressive fashion on Saturday (Jan. 30) at The Meadowlands. The Eric Ell trainee rebounded off a sixth-place finish in the Open Handicap at Dover Downs 18 days ago with a crisp performance to get back into the win column for a second-consecutive start at "The Big M", hitting the wire in 1:54.4 on a night where the real-feel temperature was 19 degrees. A 10-year-old gelded son of C...