Yonkers Raceway

Sapphire City (Jason Bartlett, $8.60) and Backstreet Hanover (Larry Stalbaum, $10) shared the glory Saturday night, winning Yonkers Raceway’s co-featured $48,000 Open Handicaps.

Yonkers Raceway Friday night hosted the $151,625 New York Sire Stakes Mike Cohen Trot for two-year-old fillies.

Yonkers Raceway Thursday night hosted the $166,874 New York Sire Stakes Armand Palatucci Pace for three-year-old colts and geldings.

We offer up the Saturday night idiom, “Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile.” We do so because after Texican N (Eric Carlson, $7) won the first of Yonkers Raceway’s $48,000 co-features by an inch...

The names have not been changed to protect the innocent, because the song remains the same.

It was downstate statebred rookie initiation Thursday night, with Yonkers Raceway hosting the New York Sire Stakes Jim Meagher Pace for two-year-old colts and geldings.

The year was 1959. Interest in harness racing was at its zenith. Those in the forefront felt that the sport should have international flavour. Since Europe only offered races for trotters, it seemed n...

Yonkers Raceway’s Monday program played no gender favourites. Driver Jason Bartlett won seven races, while trainer Jennifer Sabot won four.

Yonkers Raceway had no stakes races Saturday night, but that in no way meant the card was ordinary. Not with an all-age track record in the $48,000 Open Handicap Pace and a 49-1 bombardier in the equa...

The next time they beat Cinamony (George Brennan, $8.10) at Yonkers Raceway would be the first time they beat Cinamony at Yonkers Raceway.