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George Napolitano Jr. floored the accelerator on Ruthless Hanover from race’s outset in the $100,000 Joseph Auger Memorial Invitational Pace, held on Super Sunday (May 28) at Harrah’s Philadelphia, and the six-year-old gelding responded with a 1:46.3 mile — the fastest ever on a five-eighths-mile track.

Live video will be available for the Saturday (Oct. 22) card of harness racing at Woodbine Mohawk Park, featuring Breeders Crown eliminations for three-year-olds and older competitors.

Entries for the $6.7 million (USD) Breeders Crown events closed today (Tuesday, Oct. 18) with 174 of the sport’s top trotters and pacers entered to qualify for the rich finals on Friday, Oct. 28 and Saturday, Oct. 29 at Woodbine Mohawk Park.

Draymond Green wants a max contract, those odds have dramatically went down.

Class prevailed in the sophomore pacing stakes at The Red Mile on Sunday afternoon (Oct. 9). North America Cup winner Pebble Beach clawed his path back to the winner’s circle in the $363,500 Tattersalls Pace while Niki Hill’s return to form continued with a decisive score in the $205,000 Glen Garnsey Memorial.

Beach Glass’s speed job fell through off the final turn while driver Andrew McCarthy poised Kentucky Championship winner I Did It Myway on his preferred second-over perch and pounced to a 1:48.2 victory in the second of two divisions for the $178,000 Captaintreacherous Bluegrass Stakes as part of a stakes-packed Saturday afternoon (Oct. 1) at The Red Mile.

The opening week's stakes action at The Red Mile will conclude on Saturday (Oct. 1) with a slew of eight sophomore splits of Bluegrass action on the 13-race card.

Tioga Downs played host to two divisions of the Empire Breeders Classic (EBC) for both three-year-old pacing colts and geldings as well as the fillies on Sunday (Aug. 28). 

Bythemissal was able to get the best of Beach Glass in the 2022 Delvin Miller Adios three weeks back, but Beach Glass got his revenge in the 2022 Max C. Hempt Memorial Final on Saturday (Aug. 20) at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono as part of the star-studded Sun Stakes Saturday card.

After registering the biggest upset in Hambletonian history two weeks ago, Cool Papa Bell will head to Saturday’s (Aug. 20) $300,000 Earl Beal Jr. Memorial at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono at the other end of the spectrum — as morning-line favourite.