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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.
YONKERS, NY , Thursday, October 4, 2018- The fact that Marion Marauder found himself invited to participate in the 40th International Trot was unrelated to any new North American harness racing trade agreement. He's just pretty good.
YONKERS, N.Y. The prestige and rich harness racing history of the International Trot can rear its head in many places. For Anders Strm, the race's lineage materialized before him as he studied the yearling catalog of the recently concluded Arqana Trot Select Yearling Sale.
YONKERS, N.Y. The sun inched toward the horizon in the western Paris skies around 4:30 p.m. January 25, 2015, casting a soft golden glow over harness racing's Hippodrome de Vincennes. The crystal horse trophy Philippe Delon cradled in his arms captured the rays and it too gleamed in a golden hue as Delon raised it over his head.
... starter Lincolnjames is in to go. He was sixth last week in 1:48:2, a little too fast for the veteran Lincoln. At Yonkers, New York, tonight Mark MacDonald has been assigned the outside 8 post with Sunfire Blue Chip, the third straight week in this ...
YONKERS, NY , Saturday, September 22, 2018-What did we learn Saturday during Yonkers Raceway's hosting of the Empire State's richest night of racing, the 29th New York Night of Champions? The $1.8 million event-eight, $225,000 sire stakes finals for freshmen and sophomores of both sexes and gaits-produced the expected, the unexpected and the 'it's a good thing no one was hurt." Odds-on numbers Winndevie , Gimpanzee , Plunge Blue Chip , Wisdom Tree and Helpisontheway delivered their short parimutuel promises.
Harness racing driver Tim Tetrick talks about his drives in the $1.8 million Night of Champions finals at Yonkers Raceway YONKERS, N.Y. Yonkers Raceway will host eight finals of the New York Sire Stakes Saturday night worth a combined $1.8 million. Tim Tetrick will drive seven of the 64 statebreds who seek championship titles, and the 36-year-old is confident in his horses.