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BEDFORD PA – In conjunction with the United States Trotting Association (USTA) annual meeting for District 7, the Pennsylvania Fair Banquet was held on Saturday evening here at the Omni Bedford Springs & Spa. Sam Beegle, president of the PHHA, hosted the evening along with Daryl Breniser, a member of the PA Horse Racing Commission. They presided over […]
BEDFORD PA – The United States Trotting Association (USTA) annual meeting for District 7, Pennsylvania, was held on Saturday afternoon at the Omni Bedford Springs & Spa. Officiating at the meeting was Sam Beegle, who was returned a Chairman of the District. Other USTA district directors present were Barry Brown, Rich Gillock, and Rick Kane. […]
CHESTER, PA – The three-year-old trotting filly Tandem Hanover (Walner) enjoyed the relief of not having to face Grand Circuit opposition on a cool Thursday afternoon (Nov. 21) at Harrah’s Philadelphia, picking up a 1:55 victory in the $13,500 featured harness racing trot. David Miller, who topped all drivers on the day with four visits […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – Three $15,000 featured harness racing events for up-and-coming horses topped an excellent next-to-last card of the 2024 meet at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on Tuesday afternoon. In the lone headlining contest devoted to trotters, the Father Patrick sophomore gelding Ordained, having upset Breeders Crown elimination winner Daiquiri Hanover in his last […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – The top purse offered on Tuesday afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania was $15,000, for two races for developing harness racing horses, one race on each gait. They were also “big-money events” in another sense as well, because on a day where twelve of the fourteen races brought home a winner […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – Papa Doc (Wishing Stone) took full advantage of the rail to set the pace, slowed the half, then sprinted home in :56 to bring his mark down to 1:53 in winning the $18,500 fast-class harness racing trot Saturday afternoon (Oct. 19) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania at odds of 7-1, on […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – The pacer Congressional (Always B Miki) and the trotter Asteroid (Creatine) proved the best in their respective $18,5000 fast-class harness racing features on a sunny Saturday afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. The ultra-consistent gelding Congressional, who has used his speed to work out many good trips in the top classes […]
HARRISBURG PA – It is part of Pennsylvania Fair Sire Stakes tradition that the harness racing horse accumulating the most points based on order of finish (“A” division races) at the nineteen stops on the circuit be awarded a special blanket noting the achievement, and made with the stable colors, at the Pennsylvania Fair Banquet, […]
CHESTER PA – The International Moni gelding Khaosan Road added back-to-back fast-class feature trot wins at Harrah’s Philadelphia to his impressive harness racing resume, on Thursday just surviving the inside charge of Chake to prevail in 1:52.4. Chake had a brief early advantage from an inner post over the heavy favorite in the $14,000 headlining […]
WILKES-BARRE PA — $15,000 was on the line in each of the three harness racing features conducted Tuesday afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. Two of the highlighted races were for developing horses, one on each gait. In the pace, the Sweet Lou gelding Yankee Clout was sent right to the lead for Team […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – Three $15,000 features for up-and-coming horses were the top harness racing dashes at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on Monday afternoon, with the two trots producing pari-mutuel chaos. In the featured class for pacers, half the field of eight led at one point or another, but the race boiled down to favored […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – Stone Hanover (Art Major) made perfect use of the famed Pocono Pike on Saturday afternoon to take the $18,500 fast-class pacing feature in a harness racing lifetime best 1:49.2 at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. Stone Hanover, a son of Art Major trained by Joe Pavia Jr. for Steven Held, John Whitig, […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – Three $15,000 featured harness racing events topped the bill of fare at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on Tuesday afternoon (Sep 03). Two of the headliners were for up-and-coming classclimbers, one for trotters and the other for pacing distaffs. After nine straight favorites failed to deliver, the Readly Express sophomore gelding Edvard […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – On a sunny Monday afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, harness racing favorite Royal Emeralds (Greenshoe) sparkled as she won the $15,000 featured trot in 1:56.2. Jim Pantaleano ceded the early lead to second choice Party Of Seven, then moved the sophomore filly to the lead in front of the stands. […]
CHESTER, PA – There was no question that Shoobee Doo A (Shoobee’s Place) was a speedy harness racing horse – he had had the lead at some point in eighteen consecutive races dating back to April, and while racing against the top-level claimers at Pocono this summer, he was a weekly frontend threat, with twelve […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – The rain started coming down in earnest about midcard Saturday afternoon (Aug. 31) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, though the featured harness racing events saw strongly-backed horses continue to display solid recent form and emerge victorious despite the developing off going. The headliners were two $17,000 trotting contests. In the first, […]
CHESTER, PA – Dire Straits (Muscle Hill) was the sultan of speed in the $12,000 fast-class trotting harness racing feature on Thursday afternoon (Aug. 29) at Harrah’s Philadelphia, making a strong midrace move to command and then powering off to a 5¼ length victory in 1:52. Driver Ridge Warren, whose name you’ll see a couple […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – Carabao A (American Ideal) won his fourth race in his last six starts, with the Australian harness racing import taking a new mark of 1:48.2 in the $17,000 featured pace at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, where the surface has been wicked-fast all week. Tyler Buter got the gelding away third as […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – Supernova Hanover (Greenshoe) was the easiest of winners in the $15,000 harness racing featured trot on Monday afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, where good weather and a honed racetrack produced fast times all day long. Supernova Hanover, a sophomore colt trained by Per Engblom for Engblom Stables LLC, Douglas Sipple, […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – New Zealand import, Thebeaudenblues N, picked up his first U.S. harness racing victory in the $15,000 pacing section of the featured class Tuesday afternoon (Aug. 20) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, while Bourbon Courage got back into the win column after an absence of almost two years in the trotting feature. […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – Two-year-old harness racing trotting fillies met in their fourth and final preliminary leg of Pennsylvania Sire Stakes and Stallion Series on Monday (Aug. 19) afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, looking to secure themselves a spot in their upcoming rich Championship events as the track surface slowly improved throughout the day. […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – Harness racing driver Jason Bartlett, second in the North American earnings table, added to his totals with four winners on Sunday night (Aug. 18) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, including a sweep of the $17,000 trotting features and the $16,500 top pace, all the winners setting lifetime marks. Faster of the […]
Wilkes-Barre, PA — Jiggy Jog S (Walner-Hot Mess Hanover) extended her win streak to eight races by capturing the $100,000 Sebastian K Invitational Trot and Ruthless Hanover (Somebeachsomewhere-Rockaroundthetrack) got back in the victory column by winning the card-closing $100,000 Always B Miki Invitational Pace on Sun Stakes Saturday at Mohegan Pennsylvania’s Pocono Downs. The Sebastian […]
Wilkes-Barre, PA — Sig Sauer (Muscle Hill-Sigilwig), lightly-raced but with tons of ability, “saved the dignity” of the harness racing favorites in the major 3-year-old races on Mohegan Pennsylvania’s Pocono Downs’ Sun Stakes Saturday, winning the $300,000 Earl Beal Memorial in 1:51.3. Early attrition due to breaks, including T C I, helped the victorious colt go […]
