Violet Stakes

While the boys were featured on Friday evening at Hawthorne, the girls took center stage on Saturday, June 2 in a pair of divisions of the $25,700 Violet Stakes. The Violet is for Illinois-conceived a...

Two-year-old trotters took centre stage at Hawthorne Race Course on Sunday, July 9, as finals of the Violet and Cardinal Stakes were the main attraction.

Juvenile pacers were the focus on the big 13-race card Saturday evening (July 8) at Hawthorne Race Course.

Hawthorne Race Course featured Illinois-bred three-year-old fillies in two eliminations of the Violet Stakes on Friday evening (July 7).

Three-year-old trotters were the focus on Thursday evening (July 14) at Hawthorne Race Course. Colts and geldings were featured in the $20,300 Cardinal Stakes, while fillies were featured in the $18,5...

On a beautiful Friday evening, over a fast Hawthorne track, four divisions of leg two of the Incredible Tillie Stakes took place along with a pair of eliminations for three-year-old filly pacers in th...

A little bit of pre-race rain didn’t dampen the evening at Hawthorne as six races of stakes action took place on Thursday evening.

With some good sized crowds filling the apron for a festive Memorial Day weekend of fun-filled activities at Balmoral Park, a pair of Illinois conceived and foaled stake events for three-year-olds sha...

Continuing her quest to lock up divisional honours among the ICF two-year-old trotting filly set, Dr. Patrick Graham’s Fox Valley Yoko took another step towards securing those honours on Sunday night ...

State-bred trotting fillies were the focus of attention on Sunday, May 25 at Balmoral Park, as a field of 10 three-year-olds went toe to toe in the $47,600 Violet Stake as part of a big Memorial Day w...

After a nasty thunderstorm caused a 35-minute delay to start the Sunday, May 11 card at Balmoral Park, the action was hot and heavy the rest of the evening as a pair of state-bred events shared top bi...