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Woodbine Mohawk Park would like to issue a reminder to all owners, trainers and horse people of Thursday’s (April 15) stakes payment deadline for the 2021 season. Sustaining payments are due for all of Woodbine’s 2021 major stakes, including the $1 million Pepsi North America Cup. Click here to view the eligible horses following the March 15 deadline. The full list of stakes requiring an April 15 sustaining payment is available below: Pepsi North America Cup (Three-Year-Old Pace) – $1,...

Doubleontherocks and Its Pointless, leaders in their respective divisions, look to add to their impressive resumes in a pair of California Sire Stakes that headline the Sunday (April 4) night menu at Cal Expo. There will be 12 races presented under the Watch and Wager LLC banner and the program will get underway at 4:55 p.m. The Sire Stakes for the four-year-old colts and geldings will be decided as a non-betting race prior to the regular card. Doubleontherocks has accounted for two of three Si...

When Fear Factor got the job done in last Sunday’s second race at Cal Expo, Wendi Wiener admits it was like getting a jump start on her love of harness racing. The six-year-old son of Always A Virgin, who is co-owned by Wendi and trainer Nathalie Tremblay, was making his first appearance on the year with Nick Roland guiding him to the two and a quarter-length score. “Since my husband Stu passed, I’ve just been racing our homebreds, and after Lilbitofmama retired I really though I was done...

After taking the Friday night feature with 7-5 favorite Betalady, driver Corey Callahan, aka “The Captain”, also scored in Saturday night’s (Feb. 27) marquee event, winning the $27,500 Winners Over/Open Pace with 11-1 outsider Shnitzledosomethin at The Meadowlands. Not only did Callahan drive well, he had a big decision to make well before the race even began. Should he drive Shnitzledosomethin, or Lyons Steel, whom he guided to the winner’s circle in the weekly feature last week? “It...

Black Mamba AS added the $25,000 championship leg of the Howard Beissinger Memorial Medley trot series at 1-1/4 miles to her impressive resume on Friday, trotting gate to finish line in front in 2:25.2 in an effort that would have made Kobe Bryant proud. “I knew she’d have a big shot,” exclaimed driver Tyler Smith. “Anette (Lorentzon, the trainer) keeps all her horses fit and sharp and the added quarter mile didn’t bother her or me a bit.” A six-year-old daughter of Lionhunter, ...

Allmyxsliventexas, a winner of six of his seven starts at this meet, including a start-to-finish tally last week, looks to add another photo to the scrapbook in Saturday night’s featured $6,700 Open Pace. The main event will go as the fourth on a 13-race card presented by Watch and Wager LLC with first post set for 4:50 p.m. Allmyxsliventexas is an eight-year-old Hi Ho Silverheels homebred who competes for Wayne and Rod Knittel, hails from the Bob Johnson shedrow and will be handled once agai...

The Friday night feature at Miami Valley was the $22,500 Mares Open Pace, won by Pace Baby Pace and driver Chris Page for the second straight week, but the most anticipated races were a pair of divisions going 5/8ths of a mile dashes in the first leg of the Howard Beissinger Memorial Medley. The second leg of the annual Beissinger Memorial will go a standard mile, then the third and final $25,000 championship leg will go 1-1/4 miles on Friday, Feb. 22. Nominated horses could not have raced ...

Fan Of Terror not only extended his win streak to four with a 1:51.2 score in the Saturday (Jan. 30) Open Pace at Miami Valley, but he scored his 50th win as well. The nine-year-old gelded son of Western Terror sports a bankroll of $530,234. Owner Therl Hensley’s prize possession closes out the month of January with four wins in four tries, equaling his win total from 2021. All four victories came in gate to wire fashion as trainer Peter Redder has kept Fan Of Terror on the top of his game al...

The Meadowlands will welcome four popular Grand Circuit stakes for older horses, previously been raced at Tioga & Vernon Downs, to the big time over the mile oval at "Harness Racings Greatest Showplace" for 2021. The Roll With Joe (Open Pace) sponsored by Clinton Tractor, Crawford Farms (Open Trot) sponsored by Al & Michelle Crawfords Crawford Farms, Artiscape (Open Mare Pace) sponsored by International Sound and the Joie De Vie (Open Mare Trot) sponsored by Harrahs Hoosier Park Racing & Casino...

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