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On the night Aaron Judge matched Roger Maris’s record of 61 homeruns in the regular baseball season, a horse named Mickie Mantle – a player once teammates with Maris – hit a homerun of his own in winning the first of two $15,000 divisions of the Robert Millbank Memorial at Fraser Downs Wednesday night (Sept. 28).

The 2022 Alberta Standardbred Horse Association Yearling Sale was described as an "exceptional" event by an interested party who couldn’t attend the sale live.

The past few years have been volatile for retailers.

The hottest horse in western Canada is now the fastest horse in the history of Century Downs.

Century Downs hosted a packed card of action Saturday (July 2) which included six $7,500 eliminations for the Alberta Sires Stakes with three Alberta Marksman eliminations for three-year-old pacing colts and geldings and three Alberta Diamond eliminations for three-year-old pacing fillies.

Kelly Hoerdt trainee Codename Cigar Box once again reigned supreme over his peers, overcoming an assigned outer post to win the $13,500 Preferred Pace on a 17-race cavalcade at Century Downs on Saturday (June 25).

Off a runner-up finish to end his six-race win streak, the four-year-old Custard The Dragon gelding Codename Cigar Box landed back in the winner’s circle at Century Downs on Tuesday (May 24) with a win in the $10,500 featured pace.

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Trainer Kelly Hoerdt landed a hat trick on the 13-race card at Century Downs on Saturday (April 30), which included a sixth-consecutive victory by Codename Cigar Box at the track’s top class.

Three-year-old pacers were the stars of the show Monday at Fraser Downs as the oval hosted the BC Sale Stakes for colts and geldings in addition to a set of divisions for fillies.