Up Your Deo posted a track record 1:53.1 mile and Kierkegaard K led at every call in taking a pair of $40,000 MGM Yonkers Trot eliminations for three-year-old colts and geldings on Friday night (June 23) at MGM Yonkers Raceway. Both Up Your Deo and Kierkegaard K were sent out by trainer/driver Ake Svanstedt.
Facing stakes company for the first time, Saint Louie backed down the field like a seasoned pro, held off the 1-2 favourite and scored in Saturday’s (June 3) Pennsylvania Sires Stake at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows. Father Stosh and Spitfire Oversees also captured divisions of the $142,946 event, known as the Hickory Smoke, for three-year-old colt and gelding trotters.
Trixton mare Yanaba lowered the track record for aged trotting mares at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming and Hotel in her most recent start, and on Monday she knocked it down a tick with a win in her $50,000 Kentucky Sire Stakes division.
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Bella Bellini became the fourth female trotter this century to receive a Dan Patch Award at ages three and four when the six 2022 divisional trotting champions were announced on Tuesday, Dec. 27 by the United States Harness Writers Association.