Manchego

Oaks Champs Take Miss Versatility Splits

A pair of Hambletonian Oaks champions were the winners of the two $30,000 divisions of the third leg of the Miss Versatility Series for Open mare trotters at The Meadowlands Saturday night.

Next Level Stuff On A Roll

Next Level Stuff finished last season on a roll and her winter recess did nothing to halt her momentum. The four-year-old female trotter has two wins and a second in three starts this year and heads t...

This Is The Plan Gains On Manchego

This Is The Plan, fresh off his world-record 1:47.3 mile in the Battle of Lake Erie, narrowed the gap on No. 1-ranked Manchego in this week’s Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown poll.

Manchego Maintains Top Spot In Poll

Maxie Lee Memorial winner Manchego remained the No. 1-ranked horse in the Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown poll, adding 11 first-place votes and 43 points to her Week One totals.

Bongiorno Bounces, Wins 'Barry'

Not even 24 hours after being involved in a spill at The Meadowlands, driver Joe Bongiorno steered Nicholas Beach ($3.80) to a 1:48.4 score in the $100,000 Commodore Barry Pace, one of three co-headli...

Manchego Headlines Philly Sunday

The Nancy Takter-trained Tall Dark Stranger was voted the 2020 U.S. Horse of the Year, and when balloting was announced earlier this week for the first Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown poll of 2021...

Manchego Tops First Top 10 Poll

Manchego, a returning Dan Patch Award winner who won the Arthur J. Cutler Memorial in her 2021 debut, is the No. 1-ranked horse in this season’s first Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown poll.

Manchego Massive In Cutler

Driver Dexter Dunn employed a methodical first-over grind for the six-year-old mare Manchego and survived late pressure from a game pacesetter and a surging closer to win the $141,250 Arthur J. Cutler...

'New' Manchego Preps For 2021

When it comes to learning a new trick, Manchego might be able to provide lessons to old dogs.

Stars Out In Saturday Qualifiers

The Saturday afternoon qualifying session at The Meadowlands looked more like a Grand Circuit card sporting five millionaires, multiple stakes-winning standouts and the much-anticipated debut of an in...

Takter Poised To Take On The World

The 2020 season was, by all counts, a watershed year for trainer Nancy Takter. With the 2021 stakes season on the horizon, Takter and her team are eyeing a few new targets for the stars of their stabl...

2020 Dan Patch Award Winners

January 16, 2021

Ontario-sired pacing colt Tall Dark Stranger was named the 2020 U.S. Horse of the Year as part of the Dan Patch Annual Awards Banquet held virtually on Saturday (Jan. 16).