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Third-generation horsewoman Vicki Stratton kicked off Friday night's 14-race card at The Meadowlands with her first career driving win in a $15,541 Meadowlands Amateur Driving Club pace.
Harness racing’s Hall of Fame owner-breeder Bill Weaver and I were very great friends. We shared an office in Freehold, New Jersey and had countless conversations about the sport and its future. Weaver, of course, became one of the most influential breeders in harness racing and became very well-known and respected, especially after his two-year-old
Batavia Downs will present a special card of live racing this Friday (Aug. 26) that will feature both colt and filly three-year-old divisions of New York Sire Stake trotters who will compete for $232,700 in purses. The card will also feature the renewal of Batavia Downs signature stakes, the Robert J. Kane Memorial Pace.
Benjis Best, next-to-last at the half, outclosed Babes Dig Me and Sugartown in a three-across-the-wire finish to take the $16.000 claiming handicap pacing feature in 1:50.3 Saturday afternoon at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono After a contested early pace of :26.3 and :54.2. Sugartown led the advancing backstretch outer tier, with Babes Dig Me and Benjis Best in the next two positions behind him. Sugartown cleared to the lead at the 1:22.2 three-quarters, with the other two contenders positioned for a good stretch fight, and the trio battled on to the wire, with Benjis Best getting a head ahe...
Atta Boy Dan was making his second start of the year after two impressive winning qualifiers and a solid performance last week. He went to post on Tuesday (May 11) in the Monticello Raceway Open Pace as the 6/5 favourite and scored in 1:55.3 over a field of seven with Brandon Parker in the bike. Driver Cory Stratton and Carters Caper cut the mile as Chantepleure, leaving from post 5, was parked past the quarter in :27.3, and remained parked the entire mile. First to move approaching the half :56.4 was Certified Ideal. Brandon Parker, sensing that Chantepleure was starting to tire and clog the...