Hot Mess Express got into the win column for the first time in five seasonal starts on Friday night (May 5) at The Meadowlands in a mid-level conditioned pace for mares and her driver is hopeful the lifetime earner of more than $884,000 can get back to being the kind of horse she was earlier in her career.
Lucky Artist A and driver Braxten Boyd cut lively fractions, then held off a determined bid by Mabalene N to capture the first of three $40,000 Blue Chip Matchmaker divisions at MGM Yonkers Raceway on Friday night (April 14). The 10-year-old mare by Artistic Fella scored in a season's-best 1:51.2 in the final qualifying leg of the series.
Hoolie N Hector was the only horse able to improve to two-for-two in this year's John Brennan Trotting Series at MGM Yonkers Raceway after Wednesday night's (April 12) second preliminary round.
Preliminary round action in the MGM Borgata Pacing Series ends on Monday (April 17) at MGM Yonkers Raceway with three $50,000 divisions of the fifth leg.
Backstreet Shadow's 1:49.3 triumph in the first of three $50,000 flights of the fourth round of the MGM Borgata Pacing Series on Monday (April 10) night at MGM Yonkers Raceway gave the venerable campaigner a share of the all-age track record.