The sport’s top ranked horse demonstrated why he deserves that ranking as Confederate stopped the clock in 1:46.1 in the $80,000 fourth round of the Kentucky Championship Series to become the swiftest three-year-old pacer in harness racing history on Monday (Sept. 4) at Red Mile.
Confederate (Sweet Lou) became the fastest three-year-old harness racing pacer of all time, setting a world record in winning an $80,000 leg of the Kentucky Sire Stakes Labor Day Monday, September 4 at The Red Mile. The 10th race co-feature saw For Once Inmy Life (Andy McCarthy) first on the lead with Command (Todd McCarthy)
On Tuesday (Aug. 1) at Red Mile, Geocentric (Sweet Lou-Geometry) tossed down a :26.3 final panel en route to a 1:49.4 mile in the $80,000 Kentucky Sires Stake for two-year-old fillies, the fastest clocking for any two-year-old pacer this year.
There were two $80,000 harness racing divisions of the Kentucky Sire Stakes held at The Red Mile Tuesday (August 1) afternoon for three-year-old trotting fillies and two-year-old pacing fillies. The race favorites won each division and a national season's mark was taken in the two-year-old pacing division. The 1st race was the three-year-old trotting fillies
In advance of a Taylor Swift concert at the adjacent MetLife Stadium, sophomores were shaking it off (it being rust) during qualifying action on Saturday (May 27) at The Meadowlands.