Cokstile made international headlines in 2020 as the placed-first winner in that year's Elitlopp, but there was no need for a disqualification to place the star trotter in the Yonkers Raceway winner's circle after a sensational effort in the 2022 $1 million International Trot on Saturday (Oct. 15).
After three preliminaries of the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes (PaSS) for three-year-old pacing colts, there are no repeat winners, as on Wednesday afternoon at Harrah’s Philadelphia, Layton Hanover and Energetic Hanover emerged victorious in their respective $69,179 divisions (June 8).
Ohio-bred 2021 Breeders Crown champion Ocean Rock will look to return to stakes winning form and knock off Jimmy Freight, harness racing's top ranked horse, on Saturday (June 11) in the $200,000 Battle of Lake Erie at MGM Northfield Park.
With the first weekend of May in the books, many of harness racing's top performers from 2021 have started to return to the racetrack for the upcoming stakes season or hit the racetrack in racing action.
Three longshots - Semi Tough, Poseidon Seelster, and Funatthebeach N - and two favourites - Leonidas A and Nicholas Beach - were victorious in the five $50,000 divisions of the third leg of the MGM Borgata Pacing Series on Monday night at Yonkers Raceway.