Northfield, OH The connections of talented 3-year-old harness racing pacing filly Zanatta (Stay Hungry) have high hopes for Saturday's $100,000 Courageous Lady Stakes at MGM Northfield Park. Purchased for $125,000 at the Lexington Selected Yearling sale, Zanatta was a standout for the Bongiorno's and owner Michael Cote Gagnon. "She was a very nice looking filly
Lexington, KY Pacing colt Phantomofthenight (Tall Dark Stranger-Lu’s Illusion) and trotting filly French Riviera (Greenshoe-Creamy Mimi) shared top honors at Tuesday’s (Oct. 3) second session of the Lexington Selected Yearling Sale, each selling for $350,000 to lead a group of 239 harness racing horses at the Fasig-Tipton Pavilion. Phantomofthenight, who sold to Andrew Harris
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.
Twin B Joe Fresh engaged in a vicious battle with nemesis Strong Poison for a 1:49.1 triumph in an $80,000 division of the Kentucky Championship Series for three-year-old pacing fillies on Sunday (Sept. 10) at The Red Mile, collecting her fifth consecutive win and becoming the sport’s newest millionaire. Hambletonian victor Tactical Approach rebounded off a second-place finish in his last appearance in the series for sophomore male trotters with a 1:51.2 victory.