The 2022 MGM Borgata Pacing Series preliminaries started with favourites going five-for-five in leg one and ended with the chalk registering a three-for-three mark in Monday's trio of $50,000 divisions of the final round at Yonkers Raceway.
A neck, half a length, a neck, and half a length were the winning margins in four closely-contested $50,000 splits of the fourth leg of the MGM Borgata Pacing Series on Monday night at Yonkers Raceway.
The publicity department for the Grand Circuit has sent its weekly recap and preview of racing on the Grand Circuit.
This Week: Battle of Lake Erie, Northfield Park, Northfield, Ohio, and Graduate Series legs, The Meadowlands, East Rutherford, N.J.
Schedule of events: The Grand Circuit heads to Northfield Park on Saturday (June 5) for the $200,000 Battle of Lake Erie for older pacers. Also on Saturday, The Meadowlands has two $50,000 divisions in the second leg of the Graduate Series for four-year-old trotters and two $50,000 divisions in the third leg of the Graduate Series for four-year-old pacers.
Last Time: Three-time Breeders Crown champion Manchego ($4.20) lived up to favored billing in the $100,000 Maxie Lee Memorial Trot on Sunday (May 30), cascading off third-over cover for a 1:51.3 win, the fastest mile ever trotted by a filly or mare in the 16-year history of Harrah’s Philadelphia.
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This Is The Plan was able to overcome starting from the outside post eight with a blitz off the gate and then never let anybody get close to him after that in winning Monday night s $514,000 MGM Borgata Pacing Series final at Yonkers Raceway in 1:50.4.
This Is The Plan, driven by Yannick Gingras and one of three in the final sent out by trainer Ron Burke, was dispatched at odds of 11-1.
Rockapelo (George Brennan), Hesa Kingslayer N (Jim Marohn, Jr.), Mach N Cheese (Joe Bongiorno), Western Joe (Dexter Dunn), Backstreet Shadow (Tim Tetrick), and This Is The Plan all showed speed at the start of the race, but it was This Is The Plan who was able to go from six-wide early on the bend to leading over stablemate Rockapelo by the time they entered the backstretch for the first time. Everybody else then got down to the cones except for Backstreet Shadow, who was left on the outside as the first quarter rang up in :26.4.