In this election season, the votes have been counted...for Yonkers Raceway’s International Trot.
The complete field of 10 world-class invitees/acceptances for the million-dollar event, set for Saturday afternoon, Oct. 15, is now final. The seats at the table (alphabetically), with country of representation are listed below.
BBS Sugarlight – Norway
Explosive de Vie – Sweden
Flanagan Memory – Canada
Hannelore Hanover – USA (mare)
Jonesy – Finland
Oasis Bi – Italy
On Track Piraten – Sweden
Resolve – USA
Ringostarr Treb – Italy
Tano Bork – Denmark
Three of the entrants – BBS Sugarlight (fourth), On Track Piraten (seventh) and Oasis Bi (fifth) competed in this race a season ago. Last season’s winner, Norway’s Papagayo E, is injured and unable to defend his title.
The international horses are scheduled to arrive in New York next Wednesday (Oct. 5), and after a couple of days of quarantine, get Raceway-situated Friday (Oct. 7).
Please note post time for the rare afternoon program is 1:10 p.m., with International Trot No. 38 set to go at 3:20 p.m. (numbers of races on card and race number of International Trot both TBA).
Also note and make use of the race-dedicated website, InternationalTrot.com as an excellent resource.
The race is to be drawn Tuesday, Oct. 11, along with a pair of $250,000 Invitationals (1-1/4-mile trot [10 horses] and flat-mile pace, [eight horses]).
More information regarding all these races in the coming days.
(Yonkers Raceway)