One is a $1 million earning international star and the other is very much a home-grown champion. But both Ake Svanstedt-trained Alrajah One IT and Incommunicado will be starting in the $250,000 Spirit of Massachusetts Trot at Plainridge Park on Sunday afternoon (July 24).
Opening night at Batavia Downs was the scene of a crowded clubhouse, an apron full of fans, and a visit from the New York Sire Stakes two-year-old trotting fillies on Wednesday (July 20).
The 2022 stakes season has been quite kind to veteran trainer John Bax and to driver James MacDonald, and on Tuesday night they put on quite a show in the OSS Grassroots divisions at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
The four-year-old Shadow Play-BJs Squall stallion Bulldog Hanover proved himself the top dog at the aged pacing ranks by doing most of the work on the front to clock a stakes-record and track- and world-record-equaling 1:46 mile in the $99,500 second of two divisions for the Roll With Joe on Saturday (July 2) at The Meadowlands.