Bang Bang Boogie continues brilliant campaign

Columbus, MN – The Sunday night (September 13) harness racing program at Running Aces featured two divisions of Minnesota-sired sophomore trotters as well as the weekly Open Handicap trot.

Bang Bang Boogie (by New Jersey Viking) and driver Rick Magee went to the top from post six and never looked back en-route to his eleventh win of the season in the $21,000 sophomore ‘A’ division with a 1:58.2 mile over HM Magical Money (Nick Roland) and My Little Maverick (Dean Magee).

Bang Bang Boogie, who returned $2.80 on top, now shows earnings of $99,510 from 16 starts this season for owners Stephanie Anfinson and Ken Stauffer and trainer Justin Anfinson.

BANG BANG BOOGIE REPLAY

DP Freedoms Chrome made it two wins in a row with a sharp 1:54.2 tally in the $21,500 Open Handicap trot for his 32^nd career win. Dean Magee was in the bike for the three-quarter of a length score over Fifty Rivers (Svendsen) and Peanutbutterfalcon (Scott Cisco).

The $4 winner is by For You Almostfree and is owned by Aimes Racing and trained by Elvin Zimmerman.

SV Rough And Tough (by Tom Ridge)  rolled to a gate-to-wire tally in the $14,000 sophomore ‘B’ split for his 10^th career win and a new career mark of 1:58.2 with trainer/driver Brady Jenson in the bike while Shots On Goal (Mooney Svendsen) completed the exacta and The Big Bomb (Brian Detgen) was home in third. The $2.80 winner pushed his career bankroll to $105,875 for owner Larry Mather.

DP FREEDOMS CHROME REPLAY

There are three nights left to go in the 2026 season at Running Aces:

Tuesday (September 15) with post time at 7 p.m. (CDT) and special programs on Friday and Saturday (September 18 & 19) with post times at 6 p.m. (CDT) for Champions weekend.

Friday’s program will feature the Minnesota-sired Consolation races, and Saturday is the Minnesota Night of Champions with twelve Championship races all going for $65,000 each. Total purses for the two nights will be over $1 million.

For complete race results, click here: US Trotting results.

by Darin Gagne, for Running Aces