Mike Deters News Today

Tyler Miller drove five winners during the 10-race card at Tioga Downs on Sunday afternoon, June 9.

Frondeur and Boston Rocks each captured their respective features for the season opener at Tioga Downs on Saturday, May 4.

Prairie Panther (John MacDonald) captured the $10,274 featured pace on Saturday (April 20) at Vernon Downs, the opening night of the 2024 season.

On Florida’s Turnpike, about a mile or so from Exit 66 and Atlantic Boulevard, there’s a directional sign that, in part, reads, “Isle Casino and Racing.” That sign has been antiquated for some time as Caesars has taken over the facility and rebranded it as Harrah’s Pompano Beach. And when you approach the main entrance

WATERLOO — Central Christian Church, 3475 Kimball Ave., will host its inaugural “Christmas Cookies and More” event Dec. 9 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

After a convincing victory off class relief last week, Louie The Lilac moved back to the feature race and won again in the $15,000 Open I Handicap pace for fillies and mares at Batavia Downs on Wednesday night (Nov. 22). 

Prior to the start of racing on Saturday, Nov. 11 at Batavia Downs, members of the the local driver, trainer, groom and owner colony gathered trackside for a moment of silence to remember and honour their peers at Tioga Downs who lost their horses and their livelihoods as a result of a despicable act of arson that befell that track this past week.

After finishing second in his last two starts despite very strong efforts, Mirragon A got back to the winner’s circle after taking the $15,000 Open I Handicap pacing feature at Batavia Downs on Saturday, Oct. 7.

Huntinthelastdolar (Huntsville-Eighthunrdolarbill) was the lone pacer to win a New York Sire Stakes championship as a favorite Saturday (Sept 9), capturing the $225,000 final for 3-year-old colts and geldings by three-quarters of a length over Thunder Hunter Joe in 1:52 over a surface labeled "good" at MGM Yonkers Raceway. Its A Me Mario finished third.

Batavia Downs was the fourth different track that the recently landed Australian import Mirragon A has competed over since starting his North American career in June, but it didn’t dissuade this Aussie from winning the $15,000 Open I Handicap pace on Saturday night (Aug. 19).