Bongiorno Posts 3,000th Career Victory February 08, 2024 Driver Joe Bongiorno scored the 3,000th win of his career by taking the seventh race on Thursday night (Feb. 8) at MGM Yonkers Raceway with Emotions Riches.
Pappardelle Trots To John Brennan Series Championship April 26, 2023 Driver Joe Bongiorno collected his second major victory at MGM Yonkers Raceway this week by capturing the $100,000 John Brennan Trotting Series final on Wednesday night (April 26) with 1-5 favourite P...
Bongiorno Looks To Slay Futurity Foes October 08, 2022 An overflow field of 12 sophomore trotters will head postward in Sunday’s $430,000 Kentucky Futurity at The Red Mile in Lexington, Ky., a race that has played a key role in divisional honours in recen...
Bongiorno Bags Five Again At 'Big M' September 18, 2022 Driver Joe Bongiorno must have really enjoyed guiding five winners seven days ago, so much so, in fact, that the 28-year-old pilot turned the trick again Saturday night (Sept. 17) at The Meadowlands a...
Callahan, Bongiorno Both Bag Five At 'Big M' September 11, 2022 Handicappers didn’t have to go too far down the driver’s list to come up the winners on the Saturday night (Sept. 10) card at The Meadowlands, as Corey Callahan and Joe Bongiorno both guided five to v...
Solomon Wins King Remembrance Race January 15, 2022 Jim King Solomon had himself a big night at The Meadowlands on Friday (Jan. 14), taking the Martin Luther King Remembrance Race on an evening when the civil rights icon was honoured with a pair of das...
AHDC To Verruso; Big Day For Bongiornos December 26, 2021 Tony Verruso won 23 races this season, but, arguably, none as important as the $15,000 American Harness Drivers Club Final, which he copped Sunday (Dec. 26) with his own Winneress in 1:59 at Harrah's ...
Bongiorno Receives Driving Exclusion June 25, 2021 The Meadowlands, Tioga Downs and Vernon Downs are excluding Joe Bongiorno from driving in races at any of those three tracks beginning Friday (June 25).
Bongiorno High On 'Crown' Chances October 23, 2020 After a career-best 2019 that included winning his first Breeders Crown trophy, driver Joe Bongiorno hopes to add to his success in the championship event at Harrah’s Hoosier Park this year. And he wi...
Bongiorno Reaches 2,000-Win Mark August 28, 2020 Joe Bongiorno became one of the youngest drivers to achieve 2,000 career victories when the 26-year-old sent developing force Nicholas Beach to the lead and just kept pouring it on, winning in a lifet...
Late Bloomer Seeks Repeat PASS Win August 19, 2018 It took Albergo Hanover 19 career starts to make it to his first stakes race, but he debuted with a splash, jogging in 1:49.4 in a Pennsylvania Sire Stakes. On Monday (Aug. 20), he’ll try to repeat an...
Bongiorno Doubles In PASS August 12, 2018 Driver Joe Bongiorno captured two of three Pennsylvania Sire Stakes events for three-year-old pacing colts and geldings at Harrah's Philadelphia on Sunday, Aug. 12, teaming up with Albergo Hanover and...
Rubber Duck The One In Yonkers Open June 18, 2017 Westchester Sundays returned on June 18, with an out-every-step Rubber Duck (Joe Bongiorno, $47) winning Yonkers Raceway’s $68,000 Open Handicap Trot.