Chesterfield, NJ Magical Acres held 13 harness racing qualifiers for 2-year-olds Tuesday. Trainers Tom Cancelliere, Noel Daley, Chuck Sylvester and Carter Pinske each sent out two winners over the training center’s five-eighths-mile oval. They included Sylvester’s colt Ever Clever, who recorded the morning’s fastest trotting mile for the rookies, and Cancelliere’s colt Steven’s Saloon,
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.
George Napolitano Jr. floored the accelerator on Ruthless Hanover from race’s outset in the $100,000 Joseph Auger Memorial Invitational Pace, held on Super Sunday (May 28) at Harrah’s Philadelphia, and the six-year-old gelding responded with a 1:46.3 mile the fastest ever on a five-eighths-mile track.
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The $100,000 Pace Baby Pace Invitational, honouring the memory of Pacey “The Wizard” Mindlin, is shaping up to be a race to remember, according to Miami Valley Race Secretary Gregg Keidel.