Last year, Longshot became the fastest three-year-old gelding trotter ever at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows with a 1:52.2 mile. On Friday, he was up to his old tricks, sailing to victory in his return to the five-eighths-mile Pennsylvania oval.
Refined made her first start back in four months an impressive one, leaving from the eight hole to win by two lengths in 1:52 in the main event on Thursday (May 11) at Eldorado Scioto Downs, the track's first card of 2023.
Rose Run Valor and Yo Mister shared the Miami Valley spotlight on Wednesday, April 19, as the former won the $34,000 Open Handicap Trot and the latter won the championship leg of the $30,000 Dr. Dan Farwick Memorial Trotting Series.
Smoking Jet, the reigning Ohio Older Trotter of the Year, added his name to the growing list of 2023 winners of the Open Trot at Miami Valley on Wednesday (March 29). The six-year-old son of Triumphant Caviar became the eighth winner of the $30,000 weekly feature in the three months that have comprised the meet.
Although there were only three female trotters mixed with a half dozen male counterparts in the $25,000 final of the Ray Paver Sr. Memorial Series on Wednesday (March 22) at Miami Valley Raceway, two of those mares showed their heels to the field and swept the winning exacta spots.