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Lanjo Lee (So Surreal) posted the fastest mile of the harness racing season at Saratoga Casino Hotel when on Saturday night, the classy five-year-old scored in the Open Pace. Jeff Sorenson trains Lanjo Lee who came into the Saturday tilt with two Open wins to his credit in 2024, one coming at Batavia Downs and […]
Harness racing driver Jimmy Devaux scored a grand slam on the Tuesday card at Saratoga Casino Hotel aided by a win in the afternoon’s feature. The veteran reinsman, who has won three consecutive driving titles heading into the 2024 campaign, wound up inheriting the rail with Rocknroll Shelli in the $11,500 feature for fillies and […]
Way Too Sweet (Rockin Image) won the Bunny Lake Pacing Series at Saratoga Casino Hotel last spring. The Andy Gardner-trained mare wound up taking home the Three-Year-Old Pacer of the Year Award in 2022 due in large part to her harness racing series win. The ’23 campaign didn’t begin really strong for the now four-year-old […]
Seventh Secret (AllAmerican Native) made his Open debut at Saratoga Casino Hotel earlier in the month and the veteran hit the board in two of his three starts in the regular Saturday harness racing feature heading into this weekend’s action. On Saturday, the Lisa Zabielski-trained twelve-year-old drew post eight for his try in the $15,000 […]
Harness racing driver Jim Devaux was just a passenger as his Belmont Major N (Art Major) had no trouble leading from start to finish in capturing the $17,000 Open-Handicap Pace Saturday (May 20) at Saratoga Raceway. The 6th race feature saw Devaux leave from post three with Belmont Major N and easily made the lead […]
It was a big afternoon for harness racing trainer Dave Dewhurst on Monday (May 15) at Saratoga Casino Hotel. The veteran conditioner recorded a training hat trick including a pair of victories in spring series races. Following a day in which he scored wins in the Open Trot and the Winners Over for trotters, Dewhurst […]
Maczaffair N (Mach Three) went coast-to-coast in the Tuesday (April 18) feature at Saratoga Casino Hotel. The Chris Dubois trainee recorded her second harness racing win in the local Fillies and Mares Open this year when she drew away in the stretch from pocket-sitting rival So Amazing (Leon Bailey). The ten-year-old Maczaffair N, an earner […]
Tuesday (April 4) afternoon’s harness racing program at Saratoga Casino Hotel consisted of three divisions of the Step Up To The Plate Claiming Series for fillies and mares. Early on, it wasn’t looking like a day for the favorites in the series as the public’s odds-on favorites were defeated in the first two divisions. The […]
With no Open Pace on the Saturday night (March 18) harness racing card at Saratoga Casino Hotel, there were two Winners Overs that served as co-features. Trainer Amanda Kelley had the favorites in each one although both of her speedy pacers found themselves in much different positions. Willie Go West N (Auckland Reactor) moved up […]
Dewey Arnold (Deweycheatumnhowe) has been a winning machine over the years but the harness racing trotting star was a beaten favorite in each of his first three starts of 2023 heading into his Monday (Feb. 13) try in the Open Trot at Saratoga Casino Hotel. On Monday, the Dave Dewhurst-trained star high-stepper was again the […]
Trenton, NJ — It’s only fitting that Jim Devaux fishes in the Neversink River, a Delaware River tributary that runs behind his southeastern New York home. At the rate the 55-year-old is going, his performance as a harness racing driver may never sink below outstanding. OK, Father Time will eventually catch up, but Devaux is […]
Amanda Kelley has been the winningest harness racing trainer in the Open Pace thus far this season at Saratoga Casino Hotel. Her stable came into Saturday night with eight wins in the feature for pacers and added another one to tally. Mach Le More A (Mach Three) prevailed in his previous try in the Open […]
On Friday night (Jul. 22), ER Sophia (Swan For All) found herself in the Open Trot at Saratoga Casino Hotel for the just the second time in her career. The John Mongeon trainee finished fourth in her lone try in the trotting feature and headed back into the $16,000 Open on Friday evening following a […]
Harness racing trainer Melissa Beckwith showed why she is the leading trainer at Saratoga Raceway Friday (June 10) sending out four winners on the race card from her stable. Three of Beckwith’s wins came with Jimmy Devaux in the sulky. The first win for Beckwith came in the 3rd race co-feature pace when Devaux won […]
Longtime local harness racing superstar Artful Way (Artistic Fella) made his return to Saratoga Casino Hotel on Saturday night. The Jackie Greene trainee last raced at the Spa in late March when he prevailed in the Open Pace. The ten-year-old recorded another Open win at Plainridge Park last month but then returned to town off […]
Dewey Arnold (Deweycheatumnhowe) scored his second consecutive harness racing victory in the Open Trot at Saratoga Casino Hotel on Sunday when the Dave Dewhurst trainee gutted out a first-over journey to secure the win. After a bit of a slow start to his 2022 campaign, Dewey Arnold has now toughed out back-to-back difficult journeys en […]
Dewey Arnold (Deweycheatumnhowe) was a harness racing winning machine in 2021. Competing primarily in the New York Sire Stakes all spring and summer, the Dave Dewhurst trainee rattled off victory after victory before becoming an Open trotter late in the season. When racing in the local trotting feature at Saratoga Casino Hotel, Dewey Arnold enjoyed […]
Harness racing driver Billy Dobson has won the driving title at Saratoga Casino Hotel an incredible eight times over the course of the last eleven years. The now veteran reinsman finished atop the leaderboard at the Spa each year from 2010-2014 and rattled off another three consecutive titles from ’18-’20. This season started out as […]
A strong, well-balanced group of young harness racing trotters squared off against each other in a $9,500 conditional race on Tuesday afternoon at Saratoga Casino Hotel. The group of eight featured one horse riding a five-race win streak and another coming in while a winner of three straight. Neither of those two were the favorite […]
