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CHESTER PA – The Sweet Lou sophomore harness racing gelding Toast Of The Town, last seen getting a luckless trip in his Jug elimination, on Sunday afternoon returned to the state where he had scored three stakes wins at as many tracks and won the $14,000 featured pace for up-and-coming horses easily in 1:51.2. Jack […]
CHESTER PA – What started as a rainy and dark day at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Sunday afternoon became only worse, to the point that the last four races on the scheduled fourteen-race program were canceled. The fast-class pacing horses got their events rained out, but two paces for developing males splashed around the track before […]
CHESTER PA – Maggie Q N came to Harrah’s Philadelphia on Friday afternoon and certainly earned her 1:53 harness racing victory in the $13,500 featured pace for distaff pacers. The victorious daughter of Captain Crunch, trained by Jenny Melander for Jose Cervantes and Friendship Stables LLC, did not see much friendship extended to her in […]
CHESTER PA – The driver sitting number six in the dash standings at Harrah’s Philadelphia has not changed his name to Johnathan Åhle – yet. But the 29-year-old from New Jersey did drive five harness racing winners from the barn of newly-elected Hall of Famer Åke Svanstedt as Philly reopened after a week dark, also […]
CHESTER PA – Car Keys, a three-year-old daughter of Always B Miki, had to clear some traffic trouble in a very contested $14,000 distaff pacing feature at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Friday afternoon, but she was steered to a flowing lane by driver Patrick Ryder and got the job done as the favorite in 1:52.2. CAR […]
CHESTER PA – Christopher Dance N, a Kiwi son of Sweet Lou who won the #senditin Pace on 20th Anniversary Night here at Harrah’s eight days ago, came right back to repeat in Sunday’s afternoon $16,000 featured pace, rallying on the inside for a 1:49.1 victory. CHRISTOPHER DANCE N REPLAY Christopher Dance N’s chances appeared […]
CHESTER PA – The Huntsville mare Jensville A, perfectly driven by George Napolitano Jr., captured the $16,000 fast-class mares handicap pace Friday afternoon at Harrah’s Philadelphia in 1:47.4, knocking a tick off of the harness racing track record for older pacing mares, which was set by Shartin N in her Horse of the Year campaign […]
CHESTER PA – The E L Titan gelding Super Duper Cooper sat in the pocket during the “Trottin’ Thursday” $16,000 handicap event for the top-quality diamondgaiters at Harrah’s Philadelphia, was able to adjust to whatever tempo Little Expensive set, and then came on in the stretch to go past the pacesetter by three quarters of […]
CHESTER PA – Harrah’s celebrated its 20th Anniversary of harness racing on the banks of the Delaware River in southeast Pennsylvania with a special Saturday night card, 20 years to the week of its first-ever program and 58 years to the week of the inaugural staging of the Colonial Trot at Liberty Bell Park on […]
CHESTER PA – “A Tale Of Two Quarters” is perhaps the most apt way to write a story describing the two featured paces for harness racing mares at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Friday. In the $16,000 fast-class handicap contest, the Huntsville mare Jensville A started from the outside post eight, and she was kept out to […]
CHESTER PA — $1,400,000 in purses were offered on Sunday afternoon as Harrah’s Philadelphia hosted the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes Championships for three-year-olds, with four $300,000 finales for each gait/sex combination, and $50,000 consolations for each harness racing group as well. The Championship and consolation reports will be grouped below. PACING FILLIES Miss Jum Jabber (Bettor’s […]
CHESTER PA – Tyler Miller spent much of his spring and early summer in Kentucky, racing at Oak Grove and the local fairs with an occasional trip back East, but now he is concentrating on the Middle Atlantic states – and made an impact at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Thursday by winning both of the harness […]
CHESTER PA – The time to distribute over $3 million to the best Pennsylvania-sired youngsters, by age, sex, and gait, will come this week after the last of the preliminary rounds, the fourth and final leg for three-year-old male trotters, raced in Sire Stakes and Stallion Series competition on Sunday afternoon at Harrah’s Philadelphia, which […]
CHESTER PA – Car Keys was on cruise control in the $14,000 featured 0pace for filllies and mares at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Friday afternoon, rating the pace then sprinting home to be an easy winner in 1:52.3. CAR KEYS REPLAY Driver Patrick Ryder got the favored Always B Miki sophomore around second choice Daisy […]
CHESTER PA – Five years ago to the week, trotter Captain Corey and horseman Åke Svanstedt teamed to win the Earl Beal Trot up the road from Harrah’s Philadelphia at Pocono Downs. Five years on and the pair are stlll teaming for harness racing winners circle visits, as now-sire Captain Corey and trainer-driver Svanstedt combined […]
CHESTER PA – Tick A Loch A backed off (relatively) early and had a good seat behind sulky pyrotechnics that blazed for three eighths of a mile, then came on first-over and won the $13,000 fast-class distaff handicap pace at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Friday afternoon. TICK A LOCH A REPLAY Handicapped with the outside […]
CHESTER PA – “Trottin’ Thursday” marked the beginning of another three-card harness racing week at Harrah’s Philadelphia, with the International Moni gelding Arrowhead Hanover giving another strong performance to take the $13,000 feature for the fast-class older set in 1:53. Troy Beyer had the winner of $273,436, trained by Daniel Munson for Thestable Arrowheadhanovr, starting […]
CHESTER PA – The rain came midcard during the Sunday afternoon program at Harrah’s Philadelphia, with the track listed as “sloppy” for the featured pacing races and an unusual-for-Philly pro-closer bias being very prevalent. EVERLASTING STING DEO REPLAY The Perfect Sting gelding Everlast Sting Deo had come his third quarter raw in 25.3 the […]
CHESTER PA – Starstruck Dreamer, a two-year-old pacing colt by Hall of Famer Captaintreacherous out of double O’Brien award winner Scarlett Hanover, became the fastest freshman on a five-eighth mile track in the sport’s history with he won the single $129,892 division of the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Friday afternoon in 1:48.4. […]
CHESTER PA – The Bar Hopping gelding Hey Porter got a rough welcome from his Harrah’s Philadelphia harness racing opponents upon coming in from Plainridge to compete in the $13,000 fast-class handicap feature trot on Thursday afternoon, but he overcame a hard trip to win in 1:52.3. HEY PORTER REPLAY Handicapped outside in the […]
CHESTER PA – La Miki N (Always B Miki) was used hard in a determined bid to make the lead in a contested :26.3 opening quarter, did so, and then held sway the rest of the way to win the $14,000 featured distaff pace for developing younger harness racing horses Friday afternoon at Harrah’s Philadelphia. […]
CHESTER PA – The Dragon Reborn (Bettor’s Delight) certainly got a break when he drew the rail for the $14,000 featured pace for classclimbers Sunday afternoon at Harrah’s Philadelphia. He needed only one more break in the race, and after that he maximized his ability to score a 1:51.2 victory. THE DRAGON REBORN REPLAY […]
CHESTER PA – Wise Professor, a Bettor’s Wish mare, set the pace in her last start and, despite coming her own last half in :53.4, still got photoed out; in the $14,000 featured distaff pace at Harrah’s Philadelphia, the Professor got a pocket trip and “only” had to close in :55 in the heat of […]
CHESTER PA – Benjamin Hanover won his third straight $16,000 fast-class handicap trotting feature at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Thursday afternoon – but the result was about the only carryover from the dynamics of this class recently. BENJAMIN HANOVER REPLAY Little Expensive, returning to Philly after a highly-successful meet at Oak Grove, gunned right to […]
