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... the first qualifying round for the 2019 competition. The three-time champion New York Pancyprian Freedoms travel to Yonkers on Saturday to face the Lansdowne Bhoys in a battle of Cosmopolitan League teams. The Queens-based Pancyprian Freedoms were ...
YONKERS, NY , Monday, September 17, 2018-Post positions have been drawn for Saturday's $1.8 million New York Night of Champions, with Yonkers Raceway again hosting the 29th edition of the Empire State's richest night of harness racing. Eight, $225,000 sire stakes finals, each sponsored by a prominent breeding farm or organization, feature the best 2- and 3-year-olds of both sexes and gaits.
Yonkers Raceway Friday night wrapped up its New York Sire Stakes legs--all 16 of 'em--with the $156,200 Lew Barasch Trot for 2-year-old harness racing colts and geldings. Friday's event once again honored the memory of 'Tootie,' whose unmatched PR savvy in the golden age of the game helped make the nascent Roosevelt International Trot a happening.
YONKERS, NY, Saturday, August 25, 2018- Owner Adriano Sorella paid $30,000 for the privilege of Jimmy Freight entering the 63rd Messenger Stakes. We're surmising the other connections would be glad pay at least twice that much the privilege of Jimmy Freight exiting the 63rd Messenger Stakes.
YONKERS, N.Y . The husband and wife team of Michel Heijnen and Maria De Bruijn have just three horses in their racing stable, and French trotter Versachet is one.
YONKERS, N.Y. Driver Louis-Philippe Roy's ride with Jimmy Freight to date has already been a fulfilling one. One of the first major stakes horses the Quebec native has traveled with, Jimmy Freight has taken the 28-year-old reinsman to the Meadowlands Pace and the Carl Milstein Memorial.
YONKERS, N.Y. Trainer Jeff Cullipher got to know harness racing pacer Pistol Packin Mama well this spring at Hoosier Park. The 4-year-old mare raced against his star distaffer Au D Lox Bluegrass twice, once in the Filly and Mare Invitational May 19 and again in the Filly and Mare Preferred June 9. Pistol Packin Mama got the upper hand each time, including the latter start by a nose in 1:49.4. Tragically, Au D Lox Bluegrass, a 17-time winner and earner of $377,339 died suddenly just after the pair's final matchup.
The U.S. Tennis Association officially opening the new refurbished and "roofed" Louis Armstrong Stadium Wednesday and christened the court with an exhibition match between Queens natives John and Patrick McEnroe against Yonkers, N.Y.-born James Blake and Hoboken, N.J.-born Michael Chang. With their match, the McEnroes, Blake and Chang are added to a list of trivia questions as to who played the first match at the new roofed Louis Armstrong Stadium.
YONKERS, NY, Wednesday, August 22, 2018 - We took a poll and decided there's only one horse out there with a shot to win the Pacing Triple Crown. Having closed the sale in the $281,000 Cane Pace during Hambletonian Day at the Meadowlands, Stay Hungry stays the course, invading Yonkers Raceway Saturday night for eliminations of the 63rd Messenger Stakes.
