Ake Svanstedt

Heading for a start at The Meadowlands

Meadowlands Boasts Another Banner Year

January 02, 2025

It was another banner year from a business perspective at The Meadowlands, as for the third time in the last four years, the New Jersey track reported average daily wagering topped $3 million USD.

Sir Pinocchio

Powerful Finish To Pocono Simpson Series

October 28, 2024

Ed Hart trainee Sir Pinocchio took top honours in Monday's John Simpson Sr. Stakes action at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania for three-year-old male trotters with a lifetime-best 1:51.4 win while...

Call Me Goo

Call Me Goo Supplements, Scores In Breeders Crown

October 26, 2024

Trainer Ake Svanstedt has been making a habit of capturing the Breeders Crown Mare Trot. And on Saturday, Oct. 26, his good fortune continued as his two supplemental entries Call Me Goo and Nelsonbrit...

Lady Landia and James MacDonald

MacDonald Gets First Breeders Crown With Lady Landia

October 25, 2024

Lady Landia, with James MacDonald at the lines, soared late to catch Miss Belmar and win the $972,222 Breeders Crown Two-Year-Old Filly Trot final, on Friday, Oct. 25 at the Meadowlands, in a career-b...

Amazing Catch winning at Woodbine Mohawk Park

Amazing Catch Upsets In Canadian Trotting Classic

September 21, 2024

Despite a post 10 draw, Amazing Catch barrelled forward and sat a snug pocket trip to burst through an inside seam and win at double-digit odds in the $713,000 Canadian Trotting Classic for three-year...

French Champagne winning at Woodbine Mohawk Park

French Champagne Uncorks Vintage Elegantimage Victory

September 21, 2024

French Champagne found an opening in the final moments to win a thrilling edition of the $347,000 Elegantimage Stakes on Saturday night, Sept. 21 at Woodbine Mohawk Park.

Hail Mary S

Hail Mary S To Stay Stateside

September 03, 2024

Fans of North American harness racing will get a glimpse of Swedish trotting star Hail Mary S in this Saturday's 2024 MGM Yonkers International Trot. Unlike many of the trotters coming to this race fr...

Ake Svanstedt

Svanstedt Sweeps Trot Features Thursday At Philly

August 22, 2024

Trainer/driver Åke Svanstedt burnished his already-fine statistics at Harrah’s Philadelphia by winning both of the $16,438 featured events on the trot and also an $14,964 event for fast-class horses o...

Warrawee Michelle

Svanstedt Stars Set For Sun Stakes Saturday

August 15, 2024

The last time Ake Svanstedt sat behind Warrawee Michelle, he became the first trainer/driver to win the Hambletonian Oaks in 35 years. On Saturday, Aug. 17, the two will go to work together again in t...

Happy Jack B winning at Tioga Downs

Svanstedt Adds To Hambo Weekend Stakes Haul

August 04, 2024

Trainer Ake Svanstedt piled on to his Hambo weekend stakes haul with two-year-old trotting colt Happy Jack B scoring a maiden-breaking victory in the $147,638 leg of the New York Sire Stakes (NYSS) at...

Warrawee Michelle

Warrawee Michelle Rebounds For Hambletonian Oaks Win

August 03, 2024

Ontario-bred Warrawee Michelle, last season’s Breeders Crown divisional champion, made swift amends from a tepid beginning to her sophomore season with a victory in the $729,167 Hambletonian Oaks on S...

Sig Sauer and Noel Daley; Mars Hill and Tony Alagna; Secret Agent Man and Julie Miller; Amazing Catch and Ake Svanstedt

Hambletonian Hopefuls Weigh In

August 02, 2024

“This business is so competitive, there are so many good horses, so many good breeders and trainers, that any time you get a shot at anything like this you have to be really excited about it.”

Power Code winning at The Meadowlands

Power Code, Hidalgo Headline New Jersey Sire Stakes

Two-year-old pacing colt Power Code and trotting colt Hidalgo each remained undefeated after winning their second career starts in the New Jersey Sire Stakes (NJSS) on Friday, July 12 at The Meadowlan...