How low can they go? With a number of miles already faster than 1:47 this year over multiple surfaces, those miles prompt questions of just how fast Standardbreds will pace in 2023.
On what was likely the most power-packed race card of the year thus far in the harness game, Majorca N, Seriously Hanover and Nicholas Beach all brought their “A”-games on the way to jaunts down victory lane Saturday night (Feb. 11) at The Meadowlands.
Catch The Fire turned in a scorching 1:46.4 stakes and track record performance to defend his title in the $278,000 Sam McKee Memorial for free-for-all pacers during Saturday afternoon's Hambletonian Day card at The Meadowlands.
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.