Seven horses were entered for the Dexter Cup, the first Grand Circuit event of the season for three-year-old male trotters, making eliminations unnecessary this Saturday at Freehold Raceway. All seven horses advance directly to the Dexter Cup final, which will go for a purse of $137,775, on May 6 at the half-mile track in central New Jersey.
Sent the second longest shot on the board, Call Me Thefireman and Anthony Verruso cleared command from the outermost post and landed the spoils in the $10,000 North American Amateur Drivers Club (NAADA) Trot at Yonkers Raceway on Thursday night (March 16).
After shaking off a spate of bad luck and getting his first win a week ago, Designer Drink can be the toast of the town this weekend by making it a double in the $252,000 Pennsylvania Sire Stakes championship for two-year-old male trotters at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Sunday (Sept. 4)
A four-race maiden entering the race, Designer Drink shot through the "Lightning Lane" to spring a 10-1 upset in Friday’s (Aug. 26) $151,230 Pennsylvania Sires Stake (PASS) at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows. Once In A Lifetime captured the other division in the event for two-year-old trotting colts and geldings, known as the Florida Pro, giving Tim Tetrick a PASS sweep.