Filly Pace News Today

Mike Hennessy and Phil Giesbrecht recently both went over the $1-million mark for driving earnings this year, achieving the feat for the first time in their careers.

It’s unlikely the horsemen will be headless, so be not afraid to make your way to The Meadowlands this Halloween weekend and check out some frighteningly good stakes racing, sports action and entertainment, with the Kindergarten Series on track.

The Michigan Fair Stakes Finals, worth $20,000 each, were contested on Saturday evening (Sept. 23) at the Northville, Michigan oval where one track record was established and another was equalled.

Albertan phenom Virtual Horizon added another victory to his unbeaten sophomore campaign with a 1:53.3 victory in the $59,000 Alberta Sires Stakes (ABSS) Maverick final at Century Downs on Saturday (July 22).

Eliminations for the Western Canada Pacing Derby are set for this Saturday, Nov. 26 at Century Mile. Fourteen of the top three-year-old pacing colts and geldings in Western Canada will face off in a pair of $13,500 eliminations to determine the field for the $110,000 (est.) final, which will be contested on Saturday, Dec. 3.

The 2022 Alberta Sires Stakes season wrapped up on Saturday afternoon (Oct. 15) at Century Downs with four $75,000 Super Finals plus $15,000 consolations for the province's pacing stars.

Two-year-old sustaining payments for the 78th edition of the Little Brown Jug, the 53rd Jugette, the 71st Old Oaken Bucket (3-year-old open trot) and the 71st Buckette (3-year-old filly trot) are due March 15. These payments are for foals of 2020 and will be raced in 2023.

Can it happen again? Can lightning really strike twice? The connections of Codename Cigar Box are certainly hoping so.

Sustaining payments for two-year-olds for the 77th edition of the Little Brown Jug, the 52nd Jugette, the 70th Old Oaken Bucket (three-year-old open trot) and the 70th Buckette (three-year-old filly trot) are due March 15. These payments are for foals of 2019 and will be raced in 2022. Two-year-olds not nominated in the May 15, 2020 yearling payment, may be made eligible through a supplemental nomination fee of $400 due on or before the March 15, 2021 payment. This supplemental payment is in ad...