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YONKERS, N.Y. When harness racing trainer Erv Miller went to the Tattersalls July Sale with owner John Koliopoulos, they didn't intend to come home with Air Strike. The 4-year-old son impressed at 2, winning a $75,000 Indiana bred stakes at Hoosier Park and dead-heating in the $147,200 Kindergarten Classic at the Meadowlands.
Yonkers, NY- --As the fourth and final series of the North American Amateur Drivers Association nears completion the eighth leg of the 10-race Fall competition was contested at Yonkers Raceway with two short fields going to post prior to the harness racing betting card getting underway and when both events were completed Alan Schwartz and Bobby Ciavardini each emerged victorious in their respective splits. Schwartz won with his old warhorse Ladys Big Stormont in 2:01.1 while Ciavardini copped his division with Baltimor AS in 2:01.4. Both races were contested over a sloppy racetrack.
YONKERS, N.Y. When Sabine Kagebrandt came to work as the Racing Manager for Anders Strm's Stall Courant AB, she did so on one condition. Accustomed to working with and being around harness racing horses, the former groom of Prix d'Amrique winner Gigant Neo would take the office job if she could have one horse to look after in her spare time.
YONKERS, N.Y . When Casie Coleman drew up the plans for McWicked's 2018 campaign, Yonkers Raceway wasn't among the potential targets for the star pacer.
YONKERS, N.Y. Sunday morning , there was no time for celebration in Chris Oakes' barn on the backstretch at the Red Mile. Homicide Hunter, who set a world record for the fastest trotting mile ever the afternoon before, stood in his stall after going out to jog several laps with caretaker Therese Pierce.
It appears Lazarus can not only walk the walk but talk the talk. The Kiwi pacing hero faces one of the toughest challenges of his North American career when he starts from a daunting wide draw in the US$250,000 Dan Rooney Pace at Yonkers, New York tomorrow morning .
YONKERS, N.Y. Training wrapped up on a hot and humid morning Sunday at the Red Mile. There were few clouds to provide cover from the beaming sunshine; the old barns and trees in the backstretch providing a reprieve from the sweltering conditions.
YONKERS, N.Y . Winning the Elitlopp this year with Ringostarr Treb was surreal for Jerry Riordan, but the trainer quickly realized the experience wasn't for the claustrophobic.
The $1 Million Yonkers International Trot at Empire City Casino will be contested on Saturday afternoon, October 13, at Yonkers Raceway when 10 of the world's elite trotters converge on the historic harness oval for the 40th edition of the 1 - mile global classic. It will be the fourth straight year that the purse is the richest in the history of New York State harness racing, since Empire City president and CEO, Timothy J. Rooney, brought back the International in 2015 after a 20-year hiatus.