Ake Svanstedt

Nordic Catcher S winning at The Meadowlands

Nordic Catcher S Sets Stakes Record In 100th Hambletonian

August 02, 2025

Ake Svanstedt won his third Hambletonian Stakes on Saturday, Aug. 2, capturing the 100th edition of America’s Trotting Classic for three-year-olds with Nordic Catcher S in a stakes-record 1:50 at The ...

Be Perfect BG winning at Meadowlands Racetrack

Undefeated Be Perfect BG Wins New Jersey Sire Stakes Final

August 02, 2025

Canadian campaigned Be Perfect BG kept her undefeated record intact with a devastating 1:50.1 score over six rivals in the $246,575 New Jersey Sire Stakes final for two-year-old pacing fillies on Frid...

Amazing Catch winning at Woodbine Mohawk Park

Amazing Catch Leads Svanstedt Quartet To Graduate

Greg Luther wasn’t necessarily counting down the days until Amazing Catch’s first race of this season, but he is happy his trotter’s 2025 debut is nearly here.

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...