Michael Torcello News Today

Oh boy! That is what the fans had to be thinking in Buffalo Raceway's $19,178 Open Trot on Saturday night (May 25) as Johnny Boy beat Good Boy by three quarters of a length in a seasonal best of 1:58.0 over the good track.

Poets N Pirates ($2.20) collected the 'booty' for the second straight week at Buffalo Raceway as he turned back the late charge from Stars An Stones in the featured $12,329 Class B optional claiming trot on Friday afternoon, May 24.

Louie The Lilac snaps a seven-race winless streak and takes the $11,500 feature at Batavia on Wednesday, November 15.

Better B Bold certainly lived up to his name on Thursday (Oct. 5) at Woodbine Mohawk Park in the fifth and final leg of the Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Series for three-year-old pacing colts and geldings, worth $157,200, after he swept the pack from seventh to win at the wire.

It was a double celebration for trainer Samuel Smith at Buffalo Raceway on Saturday night (July 22).

HAMBURG, N.Y. --- The number 13 has always had the connotation of being bad luck. For harness racing driver Kyle Swift, it was anything but that. Driving in just his 13th career start, on the 13th race on the Buffalo Raceway program Saturday night (July 8), the 18-year-old Swift posted his first pari-mutuel victory of

In the featured $13,500 pacing event, One Off Delight A was spot on by toppling Avion Seelster by two lengths in a seasonal best of 1:53.1 over the "fast" track on Saturday night (July 8) at Buffalo Raceway.

The number 13 has always had the connotation of being bad luck. For driver Kyle Swift, it was anything but that.

Out On Bail didn't need to post bond in Buffalo Raceway's $14,500 Open I-II Pace on Saturday afternoon (May 6), but he did manage to escape some major trouble early to post a head victory over Avion Seelster in 1:57.2 over the fast track.

Filly Speaks was heard loud and clear in the $30,000 Jumpstart Series final at Buffalo Raceway on Saturday night (Apr. 22) as she smoked the field by four lengths in 1:55.2 over the fast track. The finale was for horses with a Trackmaster Rating of 77 or less.