Swedish-born trotter Gone Baby Gone never had the opportunity to fulfill the potential trainer Åke Svanstedt saw in the filly at the age of two. Five years later, though, she is making her presence known through the performances of her first foal, Kierkegaard K.
You have to start somewhere and that somewhere will be at Buffalo Raceway on Wednesday afternoon (June 21) as 19 freshman filly pacers kick off their careers in three (approximately $35,000) divisions of the New York Sire Stakes.
HAMBURG, N.Y. - You have to start somewhere and that somewhere will be at Buffalo Raceway on Wednesday afternoon (June 21) as 19 freshmen filly harness racing pacers kick off their careers in three (approx. $35,000) divisions of the New York Sire Stakes. Not one of the young ladies has had a pari-mutuel start in
Driver Jim Morrill, Jr. achieved another major milestone in his stellar career at Batavia Downs on Monday when he drove Sportskeeper to an easy gate-to-wire, 1:56.1 victory in the seventh race to achieve his 8,000th lifetime win in the sulky.
During the winter and spring, the wife and husband team of Erica and Alek Chartrand kept quiet about how much they liked their two-year-old male pacer Blue Hunt. As it turned out, there was no need to talk up the horse. Once he began racing, he made plenty of noise on his own.