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Harness Racing This Week: Blue Chip Matchmaker and George Morton Levy series finals and consolations, Yonkers Raceway, Yonkers, N.Y. Schedule of events: The Grand Circuit at Yonkers this week features the $532,000 final and the $100,000 consolation of the George Morton Levy series for open pacers, as well as the $373,000 final and $75,000 consolation in the Blue Chip Matchmaker series for open pacing mares. All four races will take place on Saturday .
YONKERS, N.Y. Although trainer Ron Burke has sent out more than 40,000 starters who have earned more than $194 million in purses, he's never had the opportunity to work with a French trotter. That will change this spring when Burke, Mike Lachance, and Ray Schnittker travel to France to purchase 24 trotters for the French American Trotting Club, the Standardbred Owners Association of New York's pioneering effort to bring a contingent of European horses to compete at Yonkers Raceway.
... dance band at Cardinal Hayes High School in his native Bronx, which led to jobs in the clubs along Central Avenue in Yonkers. Amirante kept singing, entertaining at parties and other events, and moved into sports via a connection from his day job as ...
YONKERS, NY, Monday, April 16, 2018 - Post positions have been drawn for North America's two richest races of the harness racing season to date, The finales, set for Saturday night , wrap up their respective six-week sojourns and highlight a 12-race card worth just over $1.3 million. First post is the usual 6:50 PM.
... year's Women of Excellence and received the Above and Beyond Award. As Director of Mutuels for Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway and assistant to Timothy Rooney, president and CEO, Ursula serves as the pari-mutuel manager for harness racing at ...
YONKERS, NY, Friday, April 6, 2018 -- With series starlets Shartin N, Twinkle and defending harness racing champ Mackenzie A getting the week off, Three, $40,000 events again brought together many of the best pacing mares, all of whom were thrilled the three queens abdicated this time around. Thus, some previous understudies stepped to the fore.
YONKERS, NY, Monday, April 2, 2018 -- Yonkers Raceway's first 'all -superfecta harness racing Monday' found an audience. The evening's equine star was Beyond Delight , who went first-up and over in the $22,000, 11th-race pace.
When he was a teenager, John Devito would hop on a bus with a friend and head to Yonkers and Roosevelt raceways, where he developed a passion for harness racing. Trips to the track these days continue to provide the 54-year-old Queens, N.Y., resident with thrills, but as much more than a fan.
When he was a teenager, John Devito would hop on a bus with a friend and head to Yonkers and Roosevelt raceways, where he developed a passion for harness racing. Trips to the track these days continue to provide the 54-year-old Queens, N.Y., resident with thrills, but as much more than a fan.
