Dougsmonkeybusines is unbeaten this year and will look to add another trophy to his case when he heads the cast for Friday night’s $15,000 California Sire Stakes for the four-year-old pacing males at Cal Expo.
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.
Millbank Memorial action continued at Fraser Downs on Sunday afternoon (Oct. 23) with the third leg of the Robert Millbank Memorial, for two-year-old pacing colts, and the third leg for the Betty Millbank Memorial, for two-year-old pacing fillies.
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).