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In case you’re keeping track, the four-year-old pacing mare Divine Art will be gunning for her 14th straight victory when she suits up in Friday night’s fourth race at Cal Expo for new owner/driver/trainer Gerry Longo.

A total of 89 sophomore Ohio-sired colts went postward Friday in ten divisions of Buckeye Stallion Series action at Miami Valley Raceway. There were seven divisions for pacers and three for trotters, each carrying a purse of $17,500. Kings Cruiser started things off with a 1:53.2 triumph in the first race of the day, which ended up being the quickest mile on the program. Tyler Smith was in the sulky for trainer Jeff Nisonger as the son of Yankee Cruiser returned a $4 win mutuel. Casecon captu...

A classy field of Open trotters with $4,603,627 in combined earnings aligned for the $25,000 Open Trot at Miami Valley on Tuesday (April 27), but they were no match for Mission Accepted. The six-year-old son of Manofmanymissions won his third-straight top trot, despite being assigned post 9 and being parked three-wide around the entire first turn. Icanflylikeanangel, the eventual runner-up, left the gate quickly and stopped the first quarter teletimer in :27. Mission Accepted and driver Chris P...

Most of Ohio’s finest three-year-old colts and geldings were showcased at Miami Valley on Saturday (April 24) in a pair of $50,000 Scarlet & Gray Invitationals. In the trot, Winning Ticket ran his win streak to three with a convincing 1:54.1 victory over stablemate Panzano and Lockbox. Driver Aaron Merriman made every call a winning one through fractions of :28, :58 and 1:26.4 before closing in :27.2 to win in hand by over two lengths. A winner of an elimination and the $40,000 final of the r...