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Big Performances During Night Of Champions At Hawthorne

October 14, 2023

Ominous skies loomed over Hawthorne Race Course much of the day on Saturday (Oct. 14) evening but the rains cleared as the track was listed as good for Night of Champions. Twelve stakes finals were co...

Apple Valley winning at Hawthorne Race Course

Hawthorne Set For Illinois Night Of Champions

September 08, 2022

Twelve stakes finals will be taking place on Saturday, Sept. 10 at Hawthorne with more than $1.2 million in purses on the line, all for Illinois-breds, during the Night of Champions.

Stakes Aplenty At Hawthorne

September 11, 2016

Saturday evening at Hawthorne, eleven stakes finals were contested for the Night of Champions at Hawthorne. The races for Illinois-breds were contested over a 'fast' track.

Crunch Time For Champions Night

September 02, 2016

With just over a week to Night of Champions at Hawthorne, final leg and elimination races took place on a fast track.

Trotters Close Out Southland Festival

The 2015 Southland Festival of Racing came to a close on Sunday night at Balmoral Park with a trio of Illinois-bred events for diagonally-gaited two and three-year-olds sharing top billing on the 10-r...

Southland Festival Of Racing Wraps Up

After a big Saturday night of stakes action, it was time for freshmen trotters to bring the Southland Festival of Racing to a close with a pair of big money events for Illinois conceived and foaled yo...

Southland Festival Of Racing Wraps Up

Illinois-bred trotters closed out the Southland Festival of Racing action on Wednesday, July 31 at Balmoral Park as two-year-old fillies battled in the $50,000 Fox Valley Flan Stake while their male c...

2YOs Snare Balmoral Stakes

August 02, 2012

A pair of $54,000 events for Illinois-conceived and foaled two-year-old trotters shared top billing on Wednesday, August 1 at Balmoral Park, as a field of eight colts squared off in the Plesac Stakes ...

Freshman Trotters Battle In Stake Elims

Illinois-bred trotters were the focus of attention on Wednesday, July 25 at Balmoral Park as a pair of elimination battles for the Fox Valley Flan and Plesac Stakes were contested. Both of Wednesday’s...

Trotters Star In Balmoral Stakes

August 05, 2010

A pair of state-bred trotting stakes for two-year-olds shared top billing on Wednesday’s Balmoral Park program and once again it trainer Robert Taylor’s My Miss Caroline who continued to dominate the ...

Fox Valley Smarty In 50-1 Shocker

When two-year-old trotters go postward it can always be “bombs away” and that’s just what it was on Wednesday night at Balmoral Park as 50-1 longshot Fox Valley Smarty took advantage of an early miscu...