YONKERS, N.Y. When harness racing trainer Erv Miller went to the Tattersalls July Sale with owner John Koliopoulos, they didn't intend to come home with Air Strike. The 4-year-old son impressed at 2, winning a $75,000 Indiana bred stakes at Hoosier Park and dead-heating in the $147,200 Kindergarten Classic at the Meadowlands.

Yonkers, NY- --As the fourth and final series of the North American Amateur Drivers Association nears completion the eighth leg of the 10-race Fall competition was contested at Yonkers Raceway with two short fields going to post prior to the harness racing betting card getting underway and when both events were completed Alan Schwartz and Bobby Ciavardini each emerged victorious in their respective splits. Schwartz won with his old warhorse Ladys Big Stormont in 2:01.1 while Ciavardini copped his division with Baltimor AS in 2:01.4. Both races were contested over a sloppy racetrack.

YONKERS, N.Y. When Sabine Kagebrandt came to work as the Racing Manager for Anders Strm's Stall Courant AB, she did so on one condition. Accustomed to working with and being around harness racing horses, the former groom of Prix d'Amrique winner Gigant Neo would take the office job if she could have one horse to look after in her spare time.

YONKERS, N.Y . When Casie Coleman drew up the plans for McWicked's 2018 campaign, Yonkers Raceway wasn't among the potential targets for the star pacer.

YONKERS, N.Y. Sunday morning , there was no time for celebration in Chris Oakes' barn on the backstretch at the Red Mile. Homicide Hunter, who set a world record for the fastest trotting mile ever the afternoon before, stood in his stall after going out to jog several laps with caretaker Therese Pierce.

It appears Lazarus can not only walk the walk but talk the talk. The Kiwi pacing hero faces one of the toughest challenges of his North American career when he starts from a daunting wide draw in the US$250,000 Dan Rooney Pace at Yonkers, New York tomorrow morning .

YONKERS, N.Y. Training wrapped up on a hot and humid morning Sunday at the Red Mile. There were few clouds to provide cover from the beaming sunshine; the old barns and trees in the backstretch providing a reprieve from the sweltering conditions.

YONKERS, N.Y . Winning the Elitlopp this year with Ringostarr Treb was surreal for Jerry Riordan, but the trainer quickly realized the experience wasn't for the claustrophobic.

The $1 Million Yonkers International Trot at Empire City Casino will be contested on Saturday afternoon, October 13, at Yonkers Raceway when 10 of the world's elite trotters converge on the historic harness oval for the 40th edition of the 1 - mile global classic. It will be the fourth straight year that the purse is the richest in the history of New York State harness racing, since Empire City president and CEO, Timothy J. Rooney, brought back the International in 2015 after a 20-year hiatus.

YONKERS, NY , Thursday, October 4, 2018- The fact that Marion Marauder found himself invited to participate in the 40th International Trot was unrelated to any new North American harness racing trade agreement. He's just pretty good.

YONKERS, N.Y. The prestige and rich harness racing history of the International Trot can rear its head in many places. For Anders Strm, the race's lineage materialized before him as he studied the yearling catalog of the recently concluded Arqana Trot Select Yearling Sale.

YONKERS, N.Y. The sun inched toward the horizon in the western Paris skies around 4:30 p.m. January 25, 2015, casting a soft golden glow over harness racing's Hippodrome de Vincennes. The crystal horse trophy Philippe Delon cradled in his arms captured the rays and it too gleamed in a golden hue as Delon raised it over his head.

... starter Lincolnjames is in to go. He was sixth last week in 1:48:2, a little too fast for the veteran Lincoln. At Yonkers, New York, tonight Mark MacDonald has been assigned the outside 8 post with Sunfire Blue Chip, the third straight week in this ...

YONKERS, NY , Saturday, September 22, 2018-What did we learn Saturday during Yonkers Raceway's hosting of the Empire State's richest night of racing, the 29th New York Night of Champions? The $1.8 million event-eight, $225,000 sire stakes finals for freshmen and sophomores of both sexes and gaits-produced the expected, the unexpected and the 'it's a good thing no one was hurt." Odds-on numbers Winndevie , Gimpanzee , Plunge Blue Chip , Wisdom Tree and Helpisontheway delivered their short parimutuel promises.

Harness racing driver Tim Tetrick talks about his drives in the $1.8 million Night of Champions finals at Yonkers Raceway YONKERS, N.Y. Yonkers Raceway will host eight finals of the New York Sire Stakes Saturday night worth a combined $1.8 million. Tim Tetrick will drive seven of the 64 statebreds who seek championship titles, and the 36-year-old is confident in his horses.

YONKERS, NY , Monday, September 17, 2018-Post positions have been drawn for Saturday's $1.8 million New York Night of Champions, with Yonkers Raceway again hosting the 29th edition of the Empire State's richest night of harness racing. Eight, $225,000 sire stakes finals, each sponsored by a prominent breeding farm or organization, feature the best 2- and 3-year-olds of both sexes and gaits.

Yonkers Raceway Friday night wrapped up its New York Sire Stakes legs--all 16 of 'em--with the $156,200 Lew Barasch Trot for 2-year-old harness racing colts and geldings. Friday's event once again honored the memory of 'Tootie,' whose unmatched PR savvy in the golden age of the game helped make the nascent Roosevelt International Trot a happening.

YONKERS, NY, Saturday, August 25, 2018- Owner Adriano Sorella paid $30,000 for the privilege of Jimmy Freight entering the 63rd Messenger Stakes. We're surmising the other connections would be glad pay at least twice that much the privilege of Jimmy Freight exiting the 63rd Messenger Stakes.

YONKERS, N.Y . The husband and wife team of Michel Heijnen and Maria De Bruijn have just three horses in their racing stable, and French trotter Versachet is one.

YONKERS, N.Y. Driver Louis-Philippe Roy's ride with Jimmy Freight to date has already been a fulfilling one. One of the first major stakes horses the Quebec native has traveled with, Jimmy Freight has taken the 28-year-old reinsman to the Meadowlands Pace and the Carl Milstein Memorial.

YONKERS, N.Y. Trainer Jeff Cullipher got to know harness racing pacer Pistol Packin Mama well this spring at Hoosier Park. The 4-year-old mare raced against his star distaffer Au D Lox Bluegrass twice, once in the Filly and Mare Invitational May 19 and again in the Filly and Mare Preferred June 9. Pistol Packin Mama got the upper hand each time, including the latter start by a nose in 1:49.4. Tragically, Au D Lox Bluegrass, a 17-time winner and earner of $377,339 died suddenly just after the pair's final matchup.

YONKERS, NY, Wednesday, August 22, 2018 - We took a poll and decided there's only one horse out there with a shot to win the Pacing Triple Crown. Having closed the sale in the $281,000 Cane Pace during Hambletonian Day at the Meadowlands, Stay Hungry stays the course, invading Yonkers Raceway Saturday night for eliminations of the 63rd Messenger Stakes.

This Week: Messenger eliminations, Yonkers Raceway, Yonkers, N.Y.; Nassagaweya, Eternal Camnation, Casual Breeze and Maple Leaf Trot eliminations, Woodbine Mohawk Park, Milton, Ontario; and W.N. Reynolds Memorial divisions, Tioga Downs, Nichols, N.Y. Schedule of events: This Saturday , Yonkers Raceway will host a pair of $40,000 eliminations in the Messenger Stakes for sophomore pacers, the second leg of the sport's pacing Triple Crown. The top four horses in each elimination will return for the $500,000 final on Sept.

... for Alagna, who won in 2013 with Captaintreacherous. Subsequent legs of the Triple Crown include Messenger Stakes at Yonkers Raceway in Yonkers, New York on Sept. 1 and The Little Brown Jug at the Delaware County Fair in Delaware, Ohio on Sept. 20.

YONKERS, N.Y. When Ed Gannon, Jr. picked up his French trotter Ubanji in June, the harness racing horse seemed unassuming enough. A nice-looking, well-built, long-bodied trotter, Ubanji made a good first impression on his new trainer.