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The fields are set for the Grade 2 $250,000 MGM Yonkers Trot and the Grade 2 $200,000 MGM Grand Messenger Stakes for harness racing 3-year-old males on Friday night (June 26) at MGM Yonkers Raceway. Spencer Hanover (Chapter Seven), who is four-for-four thus far in 2026, will start from a trailing post nine for driver […]
Dexter Dunn completed a sweep of the Triple Crown opening leg races at MGM Yonkers Raceway on Friday night (June 27) when he guided Twisted Destiny to harness racing victory in the $200,000 Grade 2 MGM Grand Messenger Stakes for 3-year-old male pacers. The homebred son of Bettor’s Wish, out of the Badlands Hanover-sired mare […]
Harness racing trainer Travis Alexander won the MGM Grand Messenger Stakes final for 3-year-old male pacers at MGM Yonkers Raceway for a third time and swept the exacta in Friday night’s (June 28) $225,000 edition of the first leg of the Pacing Triple Crown, as Sweet Beach Life (Sweet Lou) rallied past stablemate Howlenthehills for […]
The harness racing world turns its attention to MGM Yonkers Raceway for Friday nights $300,000 MGM Yonkers Trot and the $225,000 MGM Grand Messenger Stakes finals. In the Messenger Stakes Howlenthehills and Janelle Granny were the elimination winners . Tim Tetrick has elected to opt off driving Janelle Granny and will drive Armada Hanover for […]
On Monday afternoon (June 24) at MGM Yonkers Raceway, the post position draws took place for Friday night’s (June 28) $300,000 MGM Yonkers Trot and $225,000 MGM Grand Messenger Stakes finals, the opening legs of harness racing’s Trotting and Pacing Triple Crowns. Elimination winner Bargain landed post three in the MGM Yonkers Trot final for […]
Race favorites Howlenthehills (American Ideal) and Janelle Granny (Fear The Dragon) emerged victorious from the pair of $25,000 MGM Grand Messenger Stakes eliminations for sophomore harness racing colt and gelding pacers on Friday night (June 21) at MGM Yonkers Raceway. Captain Skippy (Dexter Dunn) blasted to the front from the outside post seven in the […]
Harness Racing This Week: MGM Yonkers Trot and MGM Grand Messenger Stakes eliminations, Yonkers Raceway, Yonkers, N.Y.; and Graduate Series and Miss Versatility legs, The Meadowlands, East Rutherford, N.J. Schedule of events: The Grand Circuit weekend kicks off on Friday (June 21) at Yonkers Raceway, with a pair of $25,000 eliminations in the MGM Grand Messenger […]
Even in retirement harness racing announcer Roger Huston is a busy man. On Friday, June 28 the 81-year-old will make the 6.5 hour trek from his home in western Pennsylvania to MGM Yonkers Raceway in New York to call the first legs of the Standardbred Triple Crowns – the $300,000 MGM Yonkers Trot and $250,000E […]
Harness racing’s Triple Crown events will commence for 2024 on Friday night (June 21) at MGM Yonkers Raceway with two $25,000 eliminations for the MGM Grand Messenger Stakes for sophomore male pacers and a single $25,000 MGM Yonkers Trot elimination for 3-year-old colt and gelding trotters. Howlenthehills (American Ideal), a New York-sired gelding who is […]
With an emphatic victory in opening leg of the trotting Triple Crown, the $300,000 Yonkers Trot at MGM Yonkers Raceway Friday (June 30) night, Up Your Deo (Walner, Ake Svandstedt)solidified his status as one of the leading contenders for harness racing’s biggest event, The Hambletonian on the first Saturday in August. One week after producing […]
Harness racing’s Triple Crown kicks off at Yonkers Racetrack tonight (Jun. 30). The $250,000 MGM Messenger Stakes for sophomore pacers goes in race 7 and it will be contested at 1 1/16th miles with a ten-horse field – eight lined up on the gate and two trailers. Race 8 is the MGM Yonkers Trot that […]
Harness racing eliminations for the MGM Yonkers Trot – the first leg of the Trotting Triple Crown – and Park MGM Pace will take place on Friday night (June 23) at MGM Yonkers Raceway. The MGM Grand Messenger Stakes – the opening leg of the Pacing Triple Crown – and the New York New York […]
Yonkers Raceway is getting ready to bring down the curtain on its 2022 harness racing season, with the closing night of the meet set for tonight, Thursday (December 22). Some racing highlights of the year have included Funatthebeach N’s upset win in the MGM Borgata Pacing Series final, Drama Act taking the Blue Chip Matchmaker […]
Gulf Shores (Downbytheseaside) and Pleaseletmeknow (American Ideal) were both wire-to-wire winners in last week’s MGM Grand Messenger Stakes eliminations and something will have to give in the final as only one can get the front in the $261,730 final at Yonkers Raceway on Friday night (July 1). The Messenger is one of four six-figure stakes […]
Harness Racing This Week: MGM Yonkers Trot, MGM Grand Messenger, New York New York Mile, and Park MGM Filly Pace finals, Yonkers Raceway, Yonkers, N.Y.; Roll With Joe, Crawford Farms, Perfect Sting, Six Pack and W.N. Reynolds Memorial, The Meadowlands, East Rutherford, N.J.; Nadia Lobell, Hoosier Park, Anderson, Ind.; and Landmark Stakes, Goshen Historic Track, […]
American Courage just missed the track record by a fifth of a second and Abuckabett Hanover overcame troubles on the turns to win the two $40,000 MGM Grand Messenger Stakes eliminations for 3-year-old colt and gelding pacers on Friday night at Yonkers Raceway. Driver Matt Kakaley had American Courage on the engine at the 27.4 […]
Ahundreddollarbill has been a hundred percent perfect this season, getting his campaign off to a 3-for-3 start, and will attempt to continue his unbeaten ways Friday in the first of two $40,000 eliminations for the MGM Yonkers Trot at Yonkers Raceway. The top-four finishers from each elimination advance to the $500,000 Yonkers Trot final July […]
