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Uncle Rob (Met’s Hall), AI, Kountry Plunge and Sharp Seven were victorious in their respective $300,000 New York Sire Stakes finals for trotters on Saturday afternoon (Sept. 12) at MGM Yonkers Raceway. The day kicked off with a 1:56.2 track record harness racing performance by gelding Uncle Rob in the final for 2-year-old males. Driven […]
On Tuesday afternoon (September 8), post positions were drawn for the Grade 1 $1 million MGM Yonkers International Trot, the Grade 2 $200,000 Bob Miecuna Invitational Trot and the Grade 2 $200,000 Aria Invitational Pace, which will all take place on Saturday (September 12) at MGM Yonkers Raceway. Saturday’s program has an early post time […]
Two- and 3-year-olds are ready to compete in their $300,000 New York Sire Stakes finals as part of a stakes-laden harness racing program on Saturday afternoon (September 12) at MGM Yonkers Raceway, and post positions for those events are now set. Saturday’s program, which begins at 11:50 a.m. (EDT), also includes the Grade 1 $1 […]
Archon (Chapter Seven), driven by harness racing trainer Dan Daley, led all the way in winning Monday night’s (August 31) $156,600 New York Sire Stakes event for 2-year-old colt and gelding trotters at MGM Yonkers Raceway. Starting from post six, Archon landed on the front-end on the first turn when Uncle Rob (Andy Miller) made […]
The work of international recruiter Klaus Koch is now complete as Betting Pacer (Maharajah) is officially the final horse from Europe that will compete in the MGM Yonkers International Trot on September 12. The 9-year-old, with the odd name for a trotter due to a pacing pedigree a few generations back, will make her U.S. […]
Three-year-old trotting fillies were featured in a pair of New York Sire Stakes races on Tuesday night (August 25) at MGM Yonkers Raceway, and the harness racing winners were Lauren’s Chapter (Chapter Seven) and My Philomene (Chapter Seven). In the first $81,000 division, Flying Copper, driven by Ake Svanstedt, led to the quarter in 28.4 […]
Trainer Daniel Wäjersten will have strength in numbers in his quest to win the $1,000,000 MGM Yonkers International Trot this year after he accepted an invitation to the Grade 1 event for Gio Cash (Victor Gio). The 7-year-old joins his harness racing stablemate Mellby Jinx as the latest horse to become part of the September […]
Long serving Invercargill HRC committee member, administrator, successful breeder and trainer Murray Faul passed died on Tuesday, aged 97. Murray worked for his father Clive as a heating engineer at well known heating company CH Faul in Invercargill. “Dad was more into the gallopers when he started, because his father had gallopers. Dad used to […]
Heavy rain and a sloppy track made for a less than ideal night, but Rose Run Cowboy (Huntsville) and My Body Guard (American Ideal) braved the elements and defeated their harness racing competitors in a pair of New York Sire Stakes divisions for 2-year-old male pacers on Thursday (August 20) at MGM Yonkers Raceway. In […]
Hunting Glory and Cooperstown Boy won the pair of New York Sire Stakes harness racing divisions for 3-year-old male pacers on Thursday night (August 13) at MGM Yonkers Raceway in similar fashion, rallying by the favorite in the stretch from the pocket. In the first $82,500 grouping, Knoxville (driven by Tyler Buter) was in front […]
Chapizzy and Seveallisto, a pair of daughters of Chapter Seven owned by Purple Haze Stables LLC., scored victories in their respective New York Sire Stakes splits for 2-year-old filly trotters on Friday night (August 7) at MGM Yonkers Raceway. Driven by Matt Kakaley in the first $73,100 division, Chapizzy led through fractions of 30, 1:00.3 […]
Buoyed by Penelope Lane’s impressive win at Winton last Sunday, Oamaru trainer Brad Williamson heads south for round two of the Diamond Creek Farm/ SBSR Southern Surge at Ascot Park on Sunday. Brad shares the oil on his six starters. Race Four: To The Moon And Back (One Over Da Moon) – driver Kerryn Tomlinson […]
Always a stronghold for top trotting talent, Sweden will have two representatives in the $1,000,000 MGM Yonkers International Trot after trainer Daniel Wäjersten accepted an invitation for Mellby Jinx to participate in the yearly trotting classic. He will join U.S.-based Swedish entrant Bourbonista, as well as Diva Ek (Italy) and Powwow (Norway) in the worldwide […]
Odds On Monetary (Huntsville) and Surreal Spirit (So Surreal) emerged with the wins from a pair of $82,500 New York Sire Stakes harness racing divisions for 3-year-old pacing fillies on Thursday night (August 6) at MGM Yonkers Raceway. Driven by Matt Kakaley in the first flight, Odds On Monetary led through fractions of 27.3, 55.3 […]
The MGM Yonkers International Trot welcomes its third participant as Norway’s Powwow joins the harness racing field for the Grade 1 event scheduled for September 12 at MGM Yonkers Raceway. The son of 2015 MGM Yonkers International Trot winner Papagayo E, Powwow is making a second run at the $1,000,000 race after finishing third behind […]
Chapter Geo J and AI, two colts by Chapter Seven, won the pair of $84,000 New York Sire Stakes divisions that took place on Thursday (July 23) evening at MGM Yonkers Raceway. Driven by Jason Bartlett in the first split, Chapter Geo J led to the quarter in 28.1 and the half in 57.2, then […]
Along the lines of “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” is Diva Ek (Trixton). The runner-up in the 2025 MGM Yonkers International Trot has accepted an invitation to this year’s Grade 1 harness racing event on September 12 at MGM Yonkers Raceway. Representing Italy, Diva Ek was hardly at fault when finishing […]
The New York Sire Stakes circuit was at MGM Yonkers Raceway for the first time in 2026 on Monday night (June 29), and Cowboy Candy and Fendilicious won their respective sections of the opening leg for 2-year-old pacing fillies. In the first division, which went for a purse of $78,700, Cowboy Candy (Andy McCarthy) led […]
Add an extra quarter of a mile to the $250,000 Grade 2 MGM Yonkers Trot, and you have a recipe for a wild finish. That proved to be the case on Friday night (June 26) when Inexpressable (Walner) and driver Tim Tetrick rallied off of a third-over cover trip and charged by the field to […]
Fragment (Huntsville), who was last year’s New York Sire Stakes, Big Apple and Matron winner, rebounded off a third-place finish in the sire stakes most recently at Buffalo to capture the Grade 2 $200,000 MGM Grand Messenger Stakes final for 3-year-old male pacers on Friday night (June 26) at MGM Yonkers Raceway. The Messenger, which […]
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 […]
Eliminations were not required for either the MGM Yonkers Trot or the MGM Grand Messenger Stakes, the opening leg of the Trotting and Pacing Triple Crowns for 3-year-old colts and geldings, and so the ten entered for the MGM Yonkers Trot and the seven that dropped in the box for the MGM Grand Messenger Stakes […]
