Heading into the featured 10th race on Saturday, Jan. 27 at The Meadowlands, driver Andy McCarthy had already won three races – all favourites – on the program, but the 37-year-old pilot gave his fans one to get extremely excited about.
Unlike his fictional counterpart, the horse Sidd Finch has never studied meditation in the mountains of Tibet. Still, in the past year, the trotter has been able to attain a calmer disposition, leading to improved results in his own athletic endeavour.
Sophomore trotters were featured in $30,000 Circle City events over a sloppy track Thursday (Oct. 19) at Harrah's Hoosier Park, with Tactical Mounds and Scott Zeron taking the spotlight with a 1:53.3 score in the second of two divisions for fillies.
LEXINGTON, Ky. Off a tough-luck trip in the Kentucky Sires Stakes final, Hambletonian winner Tactical Approach (Tactical Landing) left nothing to chance and forged a front-stepping harness racing victory under minimal encouragement to clock a 1:50.1 mile in the second of three divisions for the $234,000 Greenshoe Bluegrass Stakes, for 3-year-old trotting colts and geldings,
The top-ranked male and female performers in harness racing, Confederate and Sylvia Hanover did not disappoint as Grand Circuit stakes action continued on a star-studded Saturday, Sept. 30 at The Red Mile.