Silk Cloud A (Shadow Play), the longest shot on the tote board at 20-1 odds, held off race favorite Lit De Rose to easily win the $35,000 Fillies & Mares Invitational Pace Friday (May 3) at Yonkers Raceway. The 2nd race feature saw Mc Angel (Brent Holland) scoot right out to the early lead from
Harness Racing This Week: Dexter Cup and Lady Suffolk, Freehold Raceway, Freehold, N.J.; Paul Revere Pace, Plainridge Park, Plainville, Mass.; and Miss Versatility Series opening leg, The Meadowlands, East Rutherford, N.J. Schedule of events: Grand Circuit action begins Thursday (May 2) at Plainridge Park with the $100,000 Paul Revere Pace for 3-year-old pacing males. Freehold Raceway
Hellabalou joined a select list of horses to win the MGM Borgata Pacing Series final in back-to-back seasons at Yonkers Raceway by taking Monday night's (April 22) $626,027 championship, while Canadian-bred and owned Lit De Rose took the $378,356 Blue Chip Matchmaker final for the ladies.
The harness racing season . up with the first major Grand Circuit stakes races of the year Monday (April 22) at Yonkers Raceway. Total purses for the evening are just over $1 million And handicapping the four stakes races will be Harnesslink’s own Garnet Barnsdale and former Harnesslink reporter, now handicapper for Pocono Downs, Brian
Four horses will enter Monday’s $457,000 MGM Borgata Pacing Series final for older male pacers having been no worse than second in any of the preliminary action at MGM Yonkers Raceway. Desperate Man (Shadow Play), who was a perfect 4-for-4 in the prelims, and Linedrive Hanover (Betting Line), whose only setback in his four starts