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WILKES-BARRE, Pa.— Matt Zuccarello and Anthony Verruso both delivered betting favorites to the harness racing winner’s circle in their respective $10,000 divisions of the American Harness Drivers Club (AHDC) Trot at Pocono Downs on Sunday night (July 13). Zuccarello persisted through a never-ending duel to get 2-1 chalk Padre over the line first in a […]
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 – Dominion Day (Greenshoe) and Wish List (Bar Hopping) won the $15,000 featured harness racing trots at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on Monday afternoon – one in a three-horse photo, and the other as easily as one could wish. Dominion Day was the one who outphotoed two other foes, and the sophomore […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – Trainer-driver Åke Svanstedt had a heavy betting favorite in each of the two $15,000 trotting features on the Tuesday afternoon harness racing card at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. One was coming off a victory against “non-winners of two races” company, while the other won his Breeders Crown elimination two starts back. […]
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 […]
WILKES-BARRE, Pa.— Yogi Sheridan fired to the lead and down the road while Bob Hechkoff pulled an upset off a pocket ride in their respective $10,000 harness racing divisions for the American Harness Drivers Club (AHDC) Trots at Pocono Downs on Saturday (Oct. 5). In the first division, Sheridan cleared command out of post 8 […]
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 – The shining stars among the 2024 Pennsylvania-sired three-year-olds, some of whom have been racing against the very best sophomores in North America, will be coming to Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on Monday afternoon, with each of the four harness racing groups (divided by gait and sex) of the three-year-olds sporting a […]
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, […]
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.— Harness racing amateur driver Andrew Adamczyk and Tony Beltrami both fired to the point and scored front-stepping victories in their respective $10,000 divisions of the American Harness Drivers Club (AHDC) Trot at Pocono Downs on Sunday night (Aug. 25). In the first division, Adamczyk and Buzz (Kadabra) rebuffed persistent first-over pressure from Tony […]
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 — Ake Svanstedt won his third race of the day, and James MacDonald picked up a great catch-drive and did the most with it, as the Hambletonian Oaks winning Walner-Sound Check filly Warrawee Michelle was an impressive wire-to-wire harness racing winner in the $250,000 Delmonica Hanover Trot in a track and stakes-record-equaling 1:51.3 on […]
Wilkes-Barre, PA – Odds On Platinum (Bettor’s Delight-American Jewel) and harness racing driver Todd McCarthy came with a sustained first-over march from the backstretch and caught pacesetter Rocket Deo in the final step to win Saturday’s $250,000 James M. Lynch Memorial for 3-year-old female pacers by a nose in a stakes-record-equaling 1:49 at Mohegan Pennsylvania’s […]
The last time Ake Svanstedt sat behind Warrawee Michelle (Walner-Sound Check) he became the first harness racing trainer-driver to win the Hambletonian Oaks in 35 years. On Saturday, the two will go to work together again in the $250,000 Delmonica Hanover at Mohegan Pennsylvania’s Pocono Downs, where Svanstedt will aim for a second straight victory […]
Legendary Hanover (Huntsville-Lillian Hanover) is not history’s fastest 3-year-old pacer, not yet at least, but he has put his name in the harness racing record book when it comes to speed. With his 1:46.3 win in the Meadowlands Pace and 1:46.2 score in the Cane Pace; the colt became the first-ever sophomore with multiple sub-1:47 […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – Endofstory (Lazarus N) brushed to the lead past the quarter – and boom, endofstory. He won the $17,000 harness racing pacing feature at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania Tuesday (Aug. 13) in a lifetime best of 1:49.4. The victorious sophomore gelding came after early leader I Was Tricked near the :27 quarter, […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania would like to remind harness racing horsemen in charge of top three-year-olds and/or Invitational horses of its $2M+ Sun Stakes Saturday, to be held on Saturday, August 17, and which will be drawn this Monday, August 12. The Earl Beal Memorial for three-year-old trotting colts and the […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – Arbitrage Hanover (Bettor’s Wish) was in peak form as he powered to a 1:51 harness racing victory over “sloppy” going in the $17,000 featured pace at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on a Tuesday afternoon (Aug. 6) that saw rain move in midcard. Arbitrage Hanover won the New Jersey Sire Stakes Championship […]
WILKES-BARRE, Pa.— Yogi Sheridan bagged a double in American Harness Drivers Club (AHDC) events on Sunday (Aug. 4), winning a harness racing pacing division in the afternoon at Harrah’s Philadelphia and firing up the highway to score in a trotting division at Pocono Downs that night. Sheridan romped in the second AHDC pacing division at […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – On Sunday evening (Aug. 4) Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania hosted four harness racing divisions of the $190,902 second preliminary round of the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes for two-year-old pacing males, along with six $20,000 divisions of the companion Stallion Series, and none of the ten winners can claim two victories in their […]
