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WILKES-BARRE, PA – The only harness racing mare in the field, Passionate Promise (Creatine), showed “the boys” how to get the job done when she won the $35,000 Game Of Claims Trotting Series Championship for $25,000 base-tag horses on Tuesday afternoon (April 23) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. Even-money favorite Fight Song, coming off […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – Blackhawk Zette (Cantab Hall) and Victor Laszlo (Chapter Seven) took their second Bobby Weiss Trotting Series harness racing victories in $20,000 round two action for the sophomore males Monday afternoon (April 15) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. In six $9000 final prelim rounds of action among Game Of Claims Series pacers […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – Kinesiology was the fastest winner in the six $20,000 harness racing divisions of the first prelim of the Bobby Weiss Series on a gorgeous Tuesday afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, while Hall Of Fame driver David Miller accounted for three divisions of the initial round for three-year-old trotting fillies. The […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – The Nob Hill High gelding Nob Hill Flash completed a sweep of his Game Of Claims series action for $15,000 base-tagged pacers Monday (March 25) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, tacking on a 1:52 harness racing victory in his $20,000 Championship event after winning in each of his preliminaries. Nob Hill […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – Nob Hill Flash (Nob Hill High) and Ithaca Hanover (Sweet Lou) swept their three harness racing preliminaries in the Game Of Claims Series, winning Monday afternoon (Mar. 18) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania while carrying tags of $20,000 and racing for $10,000 purses. In another section of the multi-pronged GOC, Rock […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – It was a sunny day on Saturday (Mar. 16) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, with seasonably mild temperatures – so nice a day, in fact, that conventional handicapping form played hooky during the afternoon harness racing program, which featured five $17,500 divisions of the final preliminary in the Game Of Claims […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – Harness racing drivers Anthony Napolitano and Matt Kakaley, the two-time defending dash winning champion at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, continued to show a winning touch in the second preliminary round of Monday (March 11) afternoon’s all-Game Of Claims card. Both drivers got home first four times on the pacing-only program, two […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – The second preliminary round of the Game Of Claims series for the highest-priced selling harness racing horses at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania highlighted the Saturday afternoon (March 9) sloppy-track action at the northeast Pennsylvania oval. Matt Kakaley took two $17,500 divisions with winners from last week, and Anthony Napolitano guided the […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – The entire Monday afternoon (March 4) 14-race harness racing card at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania was devoted to first preliminary round action of the Game Of Claims Series for two divisions — $10,000 races for $15,000 base-priced pacers and $7500 events for $7500 base-tagged pacers, both seven divisions strong. The competitive […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – The Game Of Claims Series, a vehicle for sharp horses racing for a price tag to make good money for their owners (which can change every week during the harness racing preliminaries), kicked off its 2024 action on Saturday afternoon (March 2) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, with six $17,500 divisions […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – Two of the three $20,000 divisions of the second prelim of the Bobby Weiss Series for sophomore harness racing trotting fillies saw repeat winners in Tuesday’s (April 18) action at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, but the other success story, the debutante Kaddari, who like the other Weiss winners is a daughter […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – C Is For Cookie (Betting Line) and Relentless Julie (Stay Hungry) repeated in the Bobby Weiss Series for three-year-old pacing fillies on Tuesday afternoon (April 17) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, winning their respective $20,000 second prelim harness racing events. And while no horse could go through the prelims of their Game […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – On a warm April afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, harness racing driver Jim Pantaleano won three of Tuesday’s (April 4) five $20,000 divisions of the first preliminary leg of the Game Of Claims Trotting Series for $25,000 base-tag horses, including two horses trained by Scott Betts. Pantaleano/Betts produced the fastest […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – Favorites won all three $9,000 harness racing divisions of the first preliminary round of the Game Of Claims Pacing Series for $10,000 base-priced horses Monday afternoon (April 3) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. Fastest of the successful trio was Globaldomination N, who enjoyed a drop in class and hung up a […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – P L Leeroy, the only double winner in the first two preliminaries in his sector of the Game Of Claims Pacing Series at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, couldn’t complete a harness racing sweep of his prelims on Sunday afternoon (March 19) in one of ten $12,500 divisions for horses priced at […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – Park Official (Art Official) and Caviart Val (Bettor’s Delight) both swept their three $20,000 preliminaries in the Game Of Claims Pacing Series by winning on the Saturday afternoon harness racing card (March 18) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. Both of them were also claimed for the third straight week – this […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – The five $7,500 harness racing divisions of the second preliminary action for Game Of Claims Pacing Series horses wearing a $9,000 basic tag this week, held Monday at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, saw no repeat winners from the initial week of their series. Two of the five winners were claimed for […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – There were four repeat winners in Saturday’s eight divisions of the second preliminaries of Game Of Claims Pacing Series for $27,500 base-tag horses, but during nine $12,500 divisions of the second-round GOC for $17,500-priced entrants Sunday (March 12) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, only P L Leeroy (Shadow Play) could post […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – Four of the eight $20,000 divisions, for harness racing horses base-tagged at $27,500 this week, of the second preliminary for the Game Of Claims Pacing Series were repeat winners on Saturday afternoon (March 11) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono. Three of the four were claimed both last week and this; […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – The Game Of Claims Series for $7500 base-priced horses conducted its first preliminary in four $7500 divisions on Monday afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. And the highly-regarded horses at the widnows continued to take a shellacking in the claiming ranks –the chalk won in the GOC’s first Saturday prelim, and […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – The coming of March finds the number of harness racing programs offered per week at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania rising to three, as there will be Saturday, Sunday, and Monday action starting at 1 p.m. all through the month. Each day will also feature a different price division of the popular […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – Pocono Downs at Mohegan Sun Pennsylvania will be welcoming the harness racing trotters and pacers back to the northeast Pennsylvania oval for its 58th season in the next couple of weeks. The first “day of action” at Pocono will be this Friday, February 10, when qualifiers on Monday, February 13 will be […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – Queen Kendall and Toddler Tantrum were winners in the first week of the Game Of Claims Pacing Series for $10,000-base price horses, but on Monday at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, they both had to take a back seat to Whata Treasure, who closed from last to win by 3¾ lengths […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – Pacers not normally featured at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono took a turn in the spotlight on the Monday afternoon harness racing card, as horses with base claiming tags of $10,000 and $7500 competed in their respective first preliminaries of the Game Of Claims Series. In the races for higher-priced horses, […]
