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The card of harness racing slated for Saturday, Sept. 16 at Woodbine Mohawk Park features some of the sport's top two- and three-year-olds in eliminations for the Shes A Great Lady, Metro, Elegantimage and Canadian Trotting Classic plus nine of the sport's top older pacing mares in the $220,000 Milton Stakes final.

Owner Dave Dobbelmann announced on Monday, Sept. 11 that his most recent acquisition, A Rocknroll Dance stallion Lost In Time, will be standing in Minnesota for the 2024 breeding season.

James MacDonald took advantage of a loaded lineup to win three of the four Champlain Stakes divisions contested on Saturday, Sept. 9 at Woodbine Mohawk Park.

MILTON, September 9, 2023 – James MacDonald took advantage of a loaded lineup to win three of Saturday’s (Sept. 9) four Champlain Stakes harness racing divisions at Woodbine Mohawk Park. A total of four Champlain divisions, two for filly pacers and two for male pacers, were contested on a stakes-filled program. Champlain Stakes – 2-Year-Old Open

Harness Racing This Week: MGM Yonkers International Trot, MGM Yonkers Raceway, Yonkers, N.Y.; Jim Ewart Memorial and Charlie Hill Memorial, Eldorado Scioto Downs, Columbus, Ohio; Champlain Stakes, Simcoe Stakes and Milton eliminations, Woodbine Mohawk Park, Milton, Ont.; and Miss Versatility leg, The Meadowlands, East Rutherford, N.J. Schedule of events: Grand Circuit harness racing will open

John Leahy, the owner/breeder of world champion Jeremes Jet, confirmed that the stallion passed away on Friday, Aug. 25 at the age of 20, according to a report by the U.S. Trotting Association.

Momas Son Byrne (Sunshine Beach) set a hot tempo on the lead in the $32,000 Preferred-2 at Woodbine Mohawk Park and backed them up by holding on to take the harness racing contest. On top with a cushion to the quarter in :26.3, Momas Son Byrne (Jonathan Drury) received company from the first-over Lawless Shadow

The Meadowlands' marquee event for pacing glamour boys, the Meadowlands Pace, will have two $50,000 eliminations on Saturday night (July 8) happening alongside a pair of Graduate Series finals for four-year-olds going to post on the 14-race program.

Odds-on choice Stockade Seelster held on the lead and 26-1 shot Midnight Nation fired from well off the speed to each clock a 1:49.3 mile and narrowly take their respective $100,400 opening-round divisions of the Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Saturday night (July 1).

Odds-on choice and last season's Metro Pace winner Stockade Seelster delivered on a 4-5 promise to win the $75,000 Pepsi North America Cup Consolation on Saturday night (June 17) at Woodbine Mohawk Park.