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Melvin G

Melvin G Wins Fifth Straight In DSBF Prelim

November 12, 2024

Sent off as the overwhelming 1-20 favourite, Melvin G rolled to a lifetime-best 1:57.2 score — his fifth win in a row — in the second of two $27,778 Delaware Standardbred Breeders' Fund (DSBF) first-r...

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Keg Stand Sells For Six Figures

Multiple stakes-winning trotter Keg Stand sold for six figures in an online auction on Tuesday afternoon, May 28.

Mad Max Hanover

'Mad Max,' I Did It Myway Take Graduates At 'Big M'

On a thrilling summer night of racing at The Meadowlands, Mad Max Hanover and I Did It Myway put a big jolt of electricity into the third and final leg of the Graduate Series for four-year-old pacers ...

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Keg Stand Matches Record In Kentucky

Driver Yannick Gingras masterfully rated the mile with 7-5 favourite Keg Stand, who scored a measured victory by a neck in the $150,000 Kentucky Sire Stakes Final for four-year-old trotting horses and...

Yanaba Trots To Track Record In Kentucky Sires Stakes

The Trixton mare Yanaba pounced, sat and struck from the pocket to land a repeat win in Kentucky Sires Stakes action with a track-record 1:52 mile in the $50,000 third preliminary for four-year-old tr...

Upsetters Dominate In Kentucky Sires Stakes

Front-stepping Queen Of Success survived late charges from her left and right to keep a scant nose in front of a stacked finish in the $50,000 Kentucky Sires Stakes second preliminary for four-year-ol...

Meadowlands Racetrack

Meadowlands Qualifiers Headlined By Takter Trainees

The Friday morning (April 7) qualifiers at The Meadowlands were headlined by familiar names that have had significant careers thus far in harness racing and Nancy Takter trainees were the ones that fr...

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Five Trainers Seek Hambo-Oaks Double

August 03, 2022

Since the inception of the Hambletonian Oaks in 1971 as the filly companion event to the Hambletonian Stakes for three-year-old trotters, two trainers — Jan Johnson and Jimmy Takter — have won both ra...

Keg Stand winning at The Meadows

Keg Stand Aces PASS Test

If Friday’s $131,506 Pennsylvania Sire Stakes at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows was his audition for the Hambletonian, Keg Stand got the role with ease, pummeling his rivals by 7-1/2 lengths in 1:53.

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Zeron Sweeps Sunday PASS At Philly

Whenever driver Scott Zeron makes a visit to Harrah’s Philadelphia, it’s usually the prospect of a live drive that lures him, and fans should take note.

Keg Stand Hopes To Topple Frosh Foes

August 12, 2021

In tippling circles, a “keg stand” is a party stunt wherein a reveler performs a handstand atop a keg and sloshes down beer for as long as possible. The equine Keg Stand hasn’t done that, exactly, but...

Dunn, Takter Dominate Championship Opener

August 01, 2021

Driver Dexter Dunn and trainer Nancy Takter teamed to take three of the four $40,000 divisions of the Kentucky Championship Series on Sunday (Aug. 1) at The Red Mile. Dunn totaled six victories on the...

Favourites Fall In Philly PASS

Heavy favourites took it on the chin in their respective second-round preliminary divisions of the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes for two-year-old trotting colts and geldings on Wednesday afternoon (July 21...