Messenger Stakes

Gulf Shores winning his Messenger Stakes elimination

Gulf Shores, Pleaseletmeknow Win Messenger Elims

Gulf Shores and Pleaseletmeknow will lead the field into next Friday night's (July 1) MGM Grand Messenger Stakes final for three-year-old colt and gelding pacers after taking tonight's (June 24) $40,0...

PJ Lou

Quick Starts Are Money In The Bank For PJ Lou

PJ Lou never gets caught napping at the start of a race. The three-year-old male pacer has been worse than second at the quarter-mile point in only three of 18 lifetime starts and has been worse than ...

Triple Crown Brings Fireworks To Yonkers

The Fourth of July may be Sunday, but the harness racing fireworks will be exploding a bit early as Yonkers Raceway hosts a quartet of major stakes on Friday (July 2) for three-year-olds, including th...

Posts Drawn For Yonkers Trot

The fields have been drawn for the finals of the $500,000 MGM Grand Messenger Stakes, the $500,000 MGM Yonkers Trot, the $150,000 Park MGM Pace, and the $150,000 New York New York Mile, which will all...

Spotlight On The Grand Circuit

The publicity department for the Grand Circuit has sent its weekly recap and preview of racing on the Grand Circuit.

Elims Set For Messenger, Yonkers Trot

Eliminations for the MGM Grand Messenger Stakes and the MGM Yonkers Trot, the first legs of the Pacing and Trotting Triple Crowns, will be held on Friday night at Yonkers Raceway.

Sophomores Prep For Triple Crown

The Triple Crown for pacers and trotters kicks off on June 25 when Yonkers Raceway will play host to eliminations (if necessary) for the $500,000 MGM Yonkers Trot and MGM Grand Messenger Pace.

Rewind: Cam Fella Wins The Messenger

November 28, 2020

In this week's edition of Rewind, Robert Smith takes readers back in time to some 38 years ago. The year was 1982 and a horse nicknamed "The Pacing Machine" Cam Fella and his trainer-driver Pat Crowe ...

Yonkers To Race Through September 12; Yonkers Trot, Messenger Cancelled

August 17, 2020

Empire City Casino by MGM Resorts and the Standardbred Owners Association of New York, the organization representing horsepeople at Yonkers Raceway, have announced an agreement to extend racing at the...

American Mercury Rises In Messenger

August 31, 2019

Positioned behind 1-9 favourite, American Mercury waited for racing room and managed to slip through a seam in the stretch to nail Bettors Wish on the finish and upset the $500,000 Messenger Stakes on...

Ontario Hopefuls Foiled At Yonkers

August 31, 2019

Gimpanzee fronted the stakes winners on Saturday, Aug. 31 at Yonkers Raceway as the New York track played host to some of harness racing's top sophomore prospects.

Alagna Discusses Messenger Trio

August 28, 2019

Of the dozen three-year-olds who entered this season’s Messenger Stakes, to be held Saturday (Aug. 31) at Yonkers Raceway, four are trained by Tony Alagna.