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YONKERS, NY , Sunday, July 28, 2018--Yonkers Raceway Monday night hosts the $172,000 New York Sire Stakes Bruce Hamilton Pace for 3-year-old harness racing colts and geldings. Post time for the dozen-race card is 6:50 PM, with the sire stakes event going as races 7 and 8 , respectively.
YONKERS, N.Y. Deo already has one win under his belt since arriving in the United States as part of the Standardbred Owners Association of New York's French American Trotting Club. Sunday afternoon, the trotter will seek a second local score for trainer Scott Di Domenico ahead of the series first leg August 5. Deo announced his presence with a victory in a $13,000 overnight for non-winners of two races lifetime July 20. With George Brennan in the sulky, Deo came away evenly from the gate and settled into sixth racing 10 lengths off the lead.
... move into position. But times change. Over the years, the passing lane came to give favorites an advantage so after Yonkers removed its passing lane and races suddenly became more competitive, Batavia Downs, for the 2018 season, decided the passing ...
YONKERS, NY, Thursday, July 26, 2018-Not every good 3-year-old trotter finds his way into the Hambletonian. There's a pretty fair Yonkers Raceway group gathering Friday night in the $173,500 New York Sire Stakes Dick McGuire Trot for the sophomore colts and geldings.
... tons of experience working with some of the best trotters ever here in the US and also many many years of racing at Yonkers at all levels. But still, we didn't know if the horses in France would be fast enough, could they trot around a small track ...
YONKERS, N.Y . Trainer Chris Oakes will start Agent Q in Friday night's $44,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace at Yonkers Raceway, but in the daughter of Western Terror's previous local start, the pair were on less friendly grounds.
YONKERS, N.Y. When the draw to randomly allocate the 22 harness racing trotters of the SOA of NY's French American Trotting Club to their new connections was complete, trainer Jenn Bongiorno was excited to begin researching her new prospect, Ursis Des Caillons. When she viewed the gelding's profile and saw he is already 10 years old and appeared small on replays, she didn't know what to expect.
YONKERS, N.Y . The Lawrence B. Sheppard Pace is one of the first major Grand Circuit events for 2-year-old pacers, and according to trainer Tom Fanning, it takes a special kind of horse to win the $100,000 stakes.
The phrase "small but select" gets invoked for Saturday night's $100,000 Lawrence B. Sheppard Pace, Yonkers Raceway's premier event for open 2-year-old colts and geldings. With just six entrants , all go straight to the gate for the finale, with Yonkers again paying homage to the Hall of Fame founder of Hanover Shoe Farms.