Harness Racing This Week: Meadowlands Pace, Hambletonian Maturity, W.R. Haughton Memorial, Mistletoe Shalee, Stanley Dancer Memorial, Delvin Miller Memorial, Golden Girls, Miss Versatility and Kindergarten Series, Meadowlands Racetrack, East Rutherford, N.J.; and Lawrence B. Sheppard Memorial, Yonkers Raceway, Yonkers, N.Y. week begins on Friday at Meadowlands Racetrack with two $10,000 divisions in the Kindergarten Series for 2-year-old colt trotters and a pair of $10,000 divisions in the Kindergarten Series for 2-year-old filly trotters.

YONKERS, N.Y . Although SOA of NY President Joe Faraldo oversaw the selection of the 24 trotters for the French American Trotting Club, even he was surprised when Alpha d'Urzy showed up to qualify Saturday at Yonkers wearing only an open bridle, an ear hood, and trotting boots with no overcheck or poles.

YONKERS, NY, Friday, July 6, 2018-New York Sire Stakes continued downstate Friday night , with Yonkers Raceway hosting the $162,000 Clyde Hirt Pace for 2-year-old fillies. Wide early, as one would surmise from this impost, St. Somewhere worked around longshot Sun Viser , then gave nothing else a shot .

YONKERS, N.Y. Satin Dancer will be part of a racing rarity when she competes in the $44,000 Open Handicap Trot Saturday night at Yonkers Raceway. The 4-year-old mare's local debut will come just four days after she raced at Hoosier Park in Indiana.

YONKERS, NY , Tuesday, July 3, 2018-New York Sire Stakes continued downstate Tuesday night , with Yonkers Raceway hosting the $156,900 Hugh Grant Trot for harness racing 2-year-old fillies. The opening division saw a sire stakes-repeating Winndevie grind Liquorstoreblues into submission early in the lane.

Marion Marauder returned to Westchester Saturday night , winning Yonkers Raceway's co-featured $44,000 Open Handicap Trot. The 2016 Trotting Triple Crown winner, in his first local visit since finishing second in last fall's million-dollar Yonkers International Trot, was unsurprisingly better than his seven inside foes.

YONKERS, N.Y. The last time Fearless Man tried the 1 -mile Open Handicap Trot at Yonkers Raceway on February 25, the result wasn't inspiring. After getting away third, Fearless Man became hot and aggressive as horses passed him on the outside.

YONKERS, NY. Tight Lines returns to Yonkers Raceway in the $44,000 Open Handicap Trot, carded as race 8 Saturday night .

The sale of Yonkers Racetrack and Empire City Casino was inevitable but the long term commitment made by New York State to support agriculture is well documented. Regardless of any changes of ownership at Yonkers Racetrack and Empire City Casino we are confident that the economic impact made by the Standardbred industry will continue to be protected and supported.

... were trapped and couldn't make it out alive. Don Billings trained 21 of the horses, which raced everywhere from Yonkers to the Poconos to Saratoga. He said he got a call just before 3 a.m. from a worker screaming, "'The barn, the barn, the barn!'" ...

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YONKERS, NY, Sunday, May 20, 2018 - Smalltownthrowdown was a two-move harness racing titan Sunday afternoon , winning Yonkers Raceway's $54,800 Open Handicap Trot The field of eight went as the opener and the first of four 'French' trots. Smalltownthrowdown, three-wide from post position No.

YONKERS, NY, Saturday, May 19, 2018 - Yonkers Raceway's foggy Saturday night featured harness racing eliminations for both the With 10 3-year-old boys entering the Rooney and nine sophomore girls in the Lismore, it was three games of 'musical chairs' to determine next week's finalists. Odds-on favorite Decoy made short work of his four foes in the first, $40,000 eliminations for the Rooney.

YONKERS, NY, Friday, May 18, 2018 - Stop us if you've read this one before... Odds-on Newborn Sassy did not play fair Friday night , winning Yonkers Raceway's $44,000 harness racing filly and mare Open Handicap Pace in obnoxiously facile fashion. This field, reduced to a half-dozen after a mid-pack defection , found Newborn Sassy and Call Me Queen Be hooking up early.

Harness Racing This Week: Graduate Series Trot first leg, Meadowlands Racetrack, East Rutherford, N.J.; and Art Rooney and Lismore eliminations, Yonkers Raceway, Yonkers, N.Y. Schedule of events: Grand Circuit action takes place this Saturday at Meadowlands Racetrack with a pair of $50,000 divisions in the first leg of the Graduate Series for 4-year-old open trotters. Also on Saturday, Yonkers Raceway will host two $40,000 eliminations in the Art Rooney for 3-year-old open pacers and a single $20,000 elimination in the Lismore for 3-year-old pacing fillies.

YONKERS, NY, Monday, May 14, 2018 - Ten harness racing 3-year-old guys - six colts and four geldings - were entered for The 28th Rooney begins with a pair of $40,000 elimination races this Saturday night , each a five-to-eliminate-one affair. Those go as races 6 and 8 during the 10-race card, with the first quartet in each returning for next Saturday night's $300,000 final.