Wednesday, June 17 Recap

June 18, 2026

The afternoons Open Trot was carded as the Terry Grey Trot, Terry has been a faithful fan of Harness Racing and the Mighty M going on 40 years. After raising a successful family, Terry and his lovely wife Ramona are moving to Florida. It was only fitting that Terry’s favorite driver Jimmy Taggart Jr. would take the race named in his honor with KJ Title.  The Gary Messenger trained son of EL Titan has now extended his win streak to 4 straight after his wire to wire win over the favorite DC Anna (B. Aldrich Jr.) and Barn Credit (M Merton) in 1:56.2- $4.42, in the process the 4 year old mare picked up a new lifetime speed badge.

Also on the car were 2 divisions of the second leg of the NAADA, the 2 local boys took home top honors. Alan Schwartz took the first heat driving Everybodyluvjoe by a head in 1:59.4 – $ 5.48 and Scott Keppler took the other aboard Baby Tao in 1:59.1 – $13.84. Rock A Honey (T. Merton) $2.54 made it 2 straight for trainer Veronica Merton and owner Chris Elia in the finale with a season best win time of 1:55.4

Trainers Danny Gill and Gary Messenger each had doubles on the 11 race card. Mike Merton led all drives with a triple and Jim Taggart Jr had a double.

The 11 race card generated $576,937.47, which equates to a per race average of $52,448.818