Rocknificent (CAPTAINTREACHEROUS) picked up the most significant victory of her career so far by winning Saturday afternoon’s $330,000 Breeders Crown Mare Pace final at the Meadowlands in 1:49, defeating top-ranked Lyons Sentinel in the process. Supplemental entrant Racine Bell (Jason Bartlett) blasted to the front from post six, but Rocknificent (Scott Zeron) tipped out of…
Winners across the weekend for BETTING LINE (2YO Betting Star by 7.1m at Parkes), HESTON BLUE CHIP (3YO Roclea River at Newcastle) and CAPTAINTREACHEROUS (2YO Captain Rival by 7.2m at Swan Hill). CAPTAINTREACHEROUS also had great results at The Meadowlands with Rocknificent taking the $330,000 Breeders Crown for Pacing Mares in 1:49, just edging out…
A double for CAPTAINTREACHEROUS with 2YO Catch A Wave by 11.8m at Tabcorp Park Melton, retaining his unbeaten streak, and Captain Nemo yet again at Albion Park. He excelled at Kentucky’s Red Mile in North America this week too – Allywag Hanover took the $158,000 Gural Open Pace in an incredible 1:46.4, 2YO Captain Cowboy…
The exciting young sire Stay Hungry will see his first North American sired colts and fillies hit the sales ring at the Lexington Selected Yearling Sales in Kentucky this week. Stay Hungry will be represented by a group of 28 impressive individuals that he is stamping in his own image. They are great-bodied, wonderfully gaited…
Hightstown, NJ — In 2019, harness racing trainer Jim King Jr. saw his pacing mare Shartin N spend every week ranked No. 1 in the Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown poll on her way to being named the Dan Patch Award’s Horse of the Year. On Tuesday, Lyons Sentinel, another pacing mare from King’s training stable, took…
Captain was the leading sire of both pacers and trotters with his 14 yearlings averaging a remarkable $225,500 at the Lexington Selected Sale on Tuesday, October 5th. There were 12 Captains that sold for $100,000+, 8 for $200,000+ and 4 brought $300,000 or more for an aggregate total of $3,157,000. The Captain fillies were the…
3YO HESTON BLUE CHIP daughter Lovin Miss Dixie posted 1:55.4 to take the 2021 Pink Diamond Stakes at Tabcorp Park Menangle, making a weekend double for the sire with fellow 3YO My Ultimate Heston in by 13.5m at Redcliffe. CAPTAINTREACHEROUS also claimed a double, with 2YO Cobalt Stride saluting at Horsham and at Albion Park,…
ABUCKABETT HANOVER won his first Grand Circuit final in more than a year as he crushed his harness racing rivals in the $176,815 Simcoe Stakes for sophomore pacers on Saturday at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Under orders from regular driver Andrew McCarthy, the son of BETTING LINE tucked in sixth from post seven while Bettor Sun…
BLUE DIAMOND EYES returned to The Red Mile with a fury on Sunday (Sep 12), scoring a 1:47.2 victory by open lengths in the single $40,000 Kentucky Championship Series division for 3-year-old pacing fillies. Driver Yannick Gingras sent BLUE DIAMOND EYES for the front heading to a :26.1 first quarter and cleared control as the…