Messenger Stakes

'Twas the night before the Messenger Stakes, and with all of Westchester County in total exuberance, Yonkers Raceway offered up a pair of $40,000 co-features to keep those emotions in abeyance.

October 23, 2008 CBC Radio will be offering listeners a preview of the Messenger Stakes on its Friday edition of Maritime Noon.

The trainers of world champions Somebeachsomewhere and Shadow Play, primary players in Yonkers Raceway's $650,000 Messenger Stakes Saturday night, have commented on their charges heading in.

World-record-holding pacers Somebeachsomewhere, who has won 17 of 18 career races and earned $2.5 million, and Shadow Play will start side by side in a field of six horses Saturday in the $650,000 Mes...

World champion Somebeachsomewhere drew outside of his five rivals for Yonkers Raceway's $650,000 Messenger Stakes, scheduled for Saturday night.

Yonkers Raceway has announced it has raised the purse of next week's Messenger Stakes to $650,000, from its original value of $559,070.

Shadow Play's co-owning trainer Dr. Ian Moore has commented on Yonkers' $565,000 Messenger Stakes going straight to a final and the showdown his student will have with superstar Somebeachsomewhere.

World champion Somebeachsomewhere and Shadow Play, winner of the Adios, Little Brown Jug and Windy City Pace, lead a small - but very select - field of a half-dozen for Yonkers Raceway's $559,070 Mess...

Somebeachsomewhere, the richest pacer of 2008 and the fastest three-year-old in harness racing history is readying for Yonkers Raceway and the 53rd Messenger Stakes, according to trainer Brent MacGrat...