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OAK GROVE, Ky. — Brett Pelling pupil Three Times Bettor and Chris Beaver trainee Gimpanzee Dancer defended their Kentucky Sire Stakes (KYSS) titles at Oak Grove with wins in their respective $150,000 finals on Monday (June 22), a harness racing card featuring nearly $1 million in purses. Three Times Bettor (driven by Dexter Dunn) maintained […]
OAK GROVE, Ky. — Trainer Andrew Harris brought his star trotting mare Yo Tillie (Tactical Landing) back to her old stomping grounds of Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel for her 4-year-old bow and comfortably found the winner’s circle as the 2-5 favorite in the lone $50,000 dash of Kentucky Sire Stakes (KYSS) for trotting […]
OAK GROVE, Ky. — Sent the 1-5 favorite, Unreasonable (Huntsville) journeyed first up on the rim and easily ground down her competition to post the top mile of the afternoon’s Kentucky Sire Stakes (KYSS) events in winning her harness racing division for 3-year-old pacing fillies on Tuesday afternoon (July 8) at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming […]
OAK GROVE, Ky. — Favorites Bath Bomb (Lather Up) and Women Layer (Sweet Lou) successfully scored sweeps of the Kentucky Sire Stakes (KYSS) series with wins in their respective $100,000 finals on the Sunday (May 11) card at Oak Grove, which featured four $100,000 KYSS finals for harness racing 4-year-olds. Bath Bomb (driven by Andy […]
OAK GROVE, Ky. — Todd McCarthy circled Women Layer (Sweet Lou) to the top and muscled through a quick mile to score easily again in his $50,000 harness racing division for the second preliminary of Kentucky Sire Stakes (KYSS) at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel on Monday afternoon (April 28). Leaving from post 2, […]
CORBIN, Ky. — Cumberland Run launched its second live harness racing meet on a sun-soaked Sunday with 14 Kentucky Sires Stakes legs for 2-year-old trotters and pacers. Driving many of those horses were the sport’s biggest names, reflecting Kentucky harness racing’s upward trajectory. Yannick Gingras, inducted into the Harness Racing Hall of Fame in 2022, […]
Lexington, KY — On Tuesday (Sep 17) The Red Mile hosted eight $50,000 harness racing divisions of the Kentucky Golden Rod Series for freshman and sophomore male and female trotters and pacers. Only two of the public’s top choices, Blue Cartier (Chapter Seven) in the 2-year-old male trot final and Faze in the 2-year-old filly pace […]
Lexington, KY — On Monday (Sept. 16) The Red Mile hosted six $100,000 Kentucky Commonwealth Series harness racing finals for freshman and sophomores on both gaits as well each sex. Pennsylvania champion Rose (Sweet Lou) made her return to the Bluegrass a winning one in the event for 2-year-old filly pacers. Yannick Gingras drove four of […]
Lexington, KY — On Sunday (Sept. 15) Dame Good Time (Chapter Seven) made the most of his opportunity to defeat Hambletonian victor, Karl, by a neck in a lifetime best of 1:50.2 in the $400,000 Kentucky Sire Stakes Series Championship final for 3-year-old male trotters. There were, however, nine other horses who collected their harness racing […]
Watch the $3.4m Kentucky Sire Stakes Finals today right here; Race 1 – $100,000 Kentucky Commonwealth Series 2yo Fillies Final – Trot 1st – Deja Blue by Muscle Hill – Atlanta – Chapter Seven 2nd – Kadena by Gimpanzee – Mission Brief – Muscle Hill 3rd – Kngtstlkrs Pistol – Walner – Pink Pistol – […]
Lexington, KY — On Sunday (Sept. 15) Hambletonian and Dan Patch Award winner, Karl (Tactical Landing), seeks his second Kentucky championship at The Red Mile in a 10-race harness racing extravaganza worth $3.4 million. There are, however, many other competitors in the seven other divisions, including budding superstars and some regally bred individuals in two $100,000 […]
Hightstown, NJ — Ron Burke and the Burke Brigade have always believed in Sweet Lou as a stallion, and Sweet Lou continues to repay their faith in him. Sunday’s $400,000 Kentucky Sire Stakes Championship Series harness racing finals provide examples. Sweet Lou, trained by Burke during the horse’s Hall of Fame career, sired Burke Brigade homebreds Louprint […]
Lexington, KY…September 13, 2024…Lexington’s fabled Red Mile will host its annual Championship night on Sunday—the final night harness racing program of the year—featuring $3.4 million in purses, including eight $400,000 Kentucky Sire Stakes Finals for two-year-olds and three-year-olds. The stellar program, with a 5:05 post time, will also feature a “better-for-the-bettor” buffet for the “Send-It-In […]
Lexington, KY — On Tuesday (Sept. 10) Canadian Pacing Derby champion and 2023 Little Brown Jug victor, It’s My Show (Sweet Lou), used a blistering final quarter-mile to defeat the talented El Rey in 1:49.2 in the $35,000 third leg of the Kentucky Sire Stakes Series (KYSS) for 4-year-old male harness racing pacers. Hers Hungry […]
Lexington, KY…July 27, 2024…We’ve all heard of squeeze plays in baseball, but Red Mile Race Secretary Tina Seekman had the task of “squeezing” a week’s work of harness racing for this week’s Sunday-Monday-Tuesday festivities. A total of 54 races on the trio of programs this week, highlighted by a solid menu of stakes races plus […]
Lexington, KY — The Red Mile completed the first week of its 150th season of harness racing featuring the first of three $35,000 legs in the debut of the Kentucky Sire Stakes Series for 4-year-old male and female pacers. Hungry For Love (Stay Hungry) and El Rey (Captaintreacherous) demonstrated their affinity for the Lexington oval as […]
OAK GROVE, Ky. — Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel hosted eight $100,000 finals of the Kentucky Sire Stakes (KYSS) for 2- and 3-year-olds on Sunday (July 14), a harness racing card that saw the track record for 3-year-old trotting fillies destroyed when odds-on choice Woman Of Passion (Walner) won her KYSS final convincingly early […]
OAK GROVE, Ky. — In just the second start of her harness racing career, Skywalker Sea (Downbytheseaside) paced the fastest mile ever for 2-year-old pacing fillies over the Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel oval in winning her division’s lone $40,000 dash of Kentucky Sire Stakes on a jam-packed Sunday (July 7) card. Leaving from […]
OAK GROVE, Ky. — A total of $600,000 in purses are on the line in the second preliminary round of the Kentucky Sire Stakes series for harness racing 2- and 3-year-olds, taking place on Sunday’s (July 7) 15-race card at Oak Grove. The opener, for 3-year-old male trotters, shapes up as a showdown between first-round […]
OAK GROVE, KY — Admiral Hill, Ari Ferrari J and Mambacita will all look to complete clean sweeps of the Kentucky Sire Stakes summer series for 4-year-olds in their respective $150,000 championship events on Tuesday (June 25), which highlight a racing week at Oak Grove Racing & Gaming worth over $1.4 million in purses. Morrison […]
OAK GROVE, KY — Trainer Per Engblom’s pacing titan Admiral Hill (Sweet Lou) again exerted authority over his peers to muscle a near gate-to-wire harness racing victory in the $50,000 Kentucky Sire Stakes (KYSS) third round at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel on Monday (June 17) while also going the fastest mile ever paced […]
OAK GROVE, Ky. — Many of harness racing’s top performers — both human and equine — will converge on Oak Grove on Monday afternoon (June 17) to contest $300,000 worth of third-round Kentucky Sire Stakes preliminary heats and a pair of $41,000 Open events. Since arriving at Oak Grove in April, Crawford Farms Racing, Alagna […]
OAK GROVE, KY — Admiral Hill (Sweet Lou) toured the Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel harness racing track again to collect his second straight win with a 1:50.3 wrapped-up effort in the $50,000 second preliminary round of Kentucky Sire Stakes (KYSS) on Tuesday (June 4). Driver Yannick Gingras pushed Admiral Hill for the front […]
OAK GROVE, KY — On Tuesday afternoon (June 4), harness racing driver Dexter Dunn will look to maintain his momentum with a pair of spring Kentucky Sire Stakes champion 4-year-old trotters in Bestfriend Volo (Walner-Bank Of Newport) and Mambacita (Tactical Landing-Bill’s Lady), both of whom have been installed as even-money morning line favorites in their […]
