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A pair of veterans with gaudy resumes reigned supreme in the co-features at The Meadowlands Saturday night (March 11), as Backstreet Shadow took the $45,000 Open 1 for pacers and Ahundreddollarbill emerged victorious in the $40,500 Open 2/Open 1 Handicap for trotters.
Due to continuing heavy snowfall and deteriorating track conditions, Yonkers Raceway was forced to cancel races nine thru eleven on Monday night's program.
Yannick Gingras is being inducted into the Harness Racing Hall of Fame this July and he got his 2022 highlight reel off to a good start by getting his 8,000th win after guiding Bettors Donttell to victory lane in the sixth race.
Last week, Let It Ride N was pushed to post taxing fractions of :53.1 to the half and 1:20.1 to three-quarters before weakening late to finish fourth as the 6-5 favourite in the weekly featured pace. So this time around, driver Dexter Dunn decided to try it another way.
Trainer Ron Burke had three of the seven participants in this year’s installment of the $150,000 Joe Gerrity Jr. Memorial Pace at Saratoga Casino Hotel and managed to take the first three spots at the finish led by world champion This Is The Plan. Yannick Gingras piloted This Is The Plan, who brought his close to $2.3 Million in career earnings to "The Spa" and wound up as the 7-5 betting favourite in the 12th annual Gerrity. Gingras moved the standout to the lead in a :26.2 first quarter before giving way to fellow Burke trainee Backstreet Shadow. That one retook command after the sizzlin...