Ari Ferrari J with driver Dexter Dunn captured the $350,000 Dr. Harry M. Zweig Memorial Open Trot for 3-year-old trotters on Saturday afternoon at Vernon Downs.
The Svanstedt stable holds a pair of aces for the final of next week’s first leg of the harness racing trotting Triple Crown after winning both eliminations of the Yonkers Trot at MGM Yonkers Raceway on Friday night. Up Your Deo (Walner), survived some anxious moments just after the start and a judge’s inquiry to
Up Your Deo posted a track record 1:53.1 mile and Kierkegaard K led at every call in taking a pair of $40,000 MGM Yonkers Trot eliminations for three-year-old colts and geldings on Friday night (June 23) at MGM Yonkers Raceway. Both Up Your Deo and Kierkegaard K were sent out by trainer/driver Ake Svanstedt.
Fifteen races kicked off the weekend card at Saratoga Casino Hotel on Saturday (June 10) evening with three divisions of the New York Sire Stakes for three-year-old filly pacers contested.