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.

The Standardbred Owners Association of New York and Yonkers Racing Corporation have entered into an amendment of their current horsemen's agreement. The terms and conditions governing harness racing at Yonkers Raceway was just extended beyond the current expiration date of May, 2019 to May, 2021.

Quality, if not quantity, for Saturday's $100,000 Sheppard Pace Wednesday, July 11, 2018 - by Frank Drucker, publicity director, Empire City at Yonkers Raceway 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. The race began in 1964, with iconic Bret Hanover its first winner.

YONKERS, NY, Wednesday, July 11, 2018--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.

Harness Racing This Week: Meadowlands Pace, Hambletonian Maturity, W.R. Haughton Memorial, Mistletoe Shalee, Stanley Dancer Memorial, Delvin Miller Memorial, Golden Girls, Miss Versatility and Kindergarten Series, Meadowlands Racetrack, East Rutherford, N.J.; and Lawrence B. Sheppard Memorial, Yonkers Raceway, Yonkers, N.Y. week begins on Friday at Meadowlands Racetrack with two $10,000 divisions in the Kindergarten Series for 2-year-old colt trotters and a pair of $10,000 divisions in the Kindergarten Series for 2-year-old filly trotters.

YONKERS, N.Y . Although SOA of NY President Joe Faraldo oversaw the selection of the 24 trotters for the French American Trotting Club, even he was surprised when Alpha d'Urzy showed up to qualify Saturday at Yonkers wearing only an open bridle, an ear hood, and trotting boots with no overcheck or poles.

YONKERS, NY, Friday, July 6, 2018-New York Sire Stakes continued downstate Friday night , with Yonkers Raceway hosting the $162,000 Clyde Hirt Pace for 2-year-old fillies. Wide early, as one would surmise from this impost, St. Somewhere worked around longshot Sun Viser , then gave nothing else a shot .

YONKERS, N.Y. Satin Dancer will be part of a racing rarity when she competes in the $44,000 Open Handicap Trot Saturday night at Yonkers Raceway. The 4-year-old mare's local debut will come just four days after she raced at Hoosier Park in Indiana.