Fraser Downs will host nine harness racing contests on Thursday (Sep. 20), and the card will feature the next leg of the B.C. Bred Stakes. Six three-year-old fillies will line up in one division for the Mary Murphy, while 19 three-year-old colts and geldings are split into three divisions for the Robert Murphy Memorial. RACE
Samba Beat (Santanna Blue Chip) captured the top harness racing pace at Century Downs on Friday (Jul. 14), while Outlaw C My Shadow’s winning streak ended at 12 as he broke stride in his first start since April. Samba Beat and Phil Giesbrecht secured the lead and forced Outlaw C My Shadow (Brandon Campbell) in
Despite the Sunday afternoon showers, the stars of British Columbia racing were out for B.C. Breeders Classic Day, the richest day of harness racing in the province, on Nov. 6 at Fraser Downs, including full brothers Mickie Mantle and Joe Dimagio, who swept the male pacing finals.
On the night Aaron Judge matched Roger Maris’s record of 61 homeruns in the regular baseball season, a horse named Mickie Mantle – a player once teammates with Maris – hit a homerun of his own in winning the first of two $15,000 divisions of the Robert Millbank Memorial at Fraser Downs Wednesday night (Sept. 28).