Two of the sport’s brightest stars, Confederate and Geocentric, sparkled on a superb 10-race card which offered $3.4 million in prize money and included eight $400,000 Kentucky Championship finals and two $100,000 Kentucky Commonwealth Series finals for freshman and sophomore trotters and pacers on Sunday (Sept. 17) at Red Mile.
Not the rain, nor the sloppy track, not even the late charge on the inside from Amigo Volo could prevent M-M’s Dream (Swan For All) and harness racing driver David Miller from impressively winning the $250,000 Bob Miecuna Invitational Trot Saturday (Sept. 9) afternoon at MGM Yonkers Raceway. The lone mare in the field against
Its Academic got back into the win column after a two-race losing streak by taking the Friday night feature at The Meadowlands, a $31,500 Open Handicap for trotters.
Beach Cowgirl returned to the scene of her greatest triumph – Harrah’s Philadelphia, where she won her freshman Pennsylvania Sire Stakes Championship in a world-record 1:50 – and kept her lifetime record undefeated after five starts in her 2023 bow: a 1:50.1 mile on Sunday afternoon (June 4). She competed in one of three $49,783 divisions of the first preliminary of the PA Sire Stakes for three-year-old pacing fillies.
In advance of a Taylor Swift concert at the adjacent MetLife Stadium, sophomores were shaking it off (it being rust) during qualifying action on Saturday (May 27) at The Meadowlands.