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WILKES-BARRE, PA – Live video is available as many of North America’s leading harness racing stars converge on Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania for the track’s biggest program of the year, Sun Stakes Saturday. A massive $2.3 million USD in purses will be on offer across the 14-race all-stakes card, which gets underway at 2:30 […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – Horsemen with Grand Circuit-caliber three-year-olds and free-for-allers of both gaits are reminded that the draw will be held THIS COMING MONDAY (August 17) for Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania’s annual highlight of the campaign, SUN STAKES SATURDAY, which will be contested on Saturday, August 22, with a 2:30 p.m. first post. The […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – The Greenshoe filly trotter Duicinea Hanover added a feature race overnight victory to a resume that had triumphs in the Pennsylvania All-Stars and the PA Stallion Series just before it, capturing the $15,000 feature for developing diamondgaited horses in a lifetime mark of 1:54.4. Duicinea Hanover was wide early then tucked third […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – The trotters and pacers return to Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania for the first time in 2026 on Monday (February 9) at 11 a.m., as seven qualifying races will be held in preparation for the track’s initial betting card of the year at 1 p.m. on Saturday, February 14. Tyler Buter, Pocono’s […]
WILKES-BARRE, Pa.— Anthony Verruso fired down the road while Paul Minore powered off cover to score a harness racing upset in their respective $10,000 American Harness Drivers Club (AHDC) Trots at Pocono Downs on Sunday night (July 7). Verruso won going pillar to post in the first AHDC Trot with 2-1 second choice Big Nudge […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – In winding up the John Simpson Sr. Memorial stakes races for the year at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on Monday afternoon, the dominant players were the sophomore trotter Sir Pinocchio (Met’s Hall), who achieved one distinction while just missing two others in winning a harness racing division for his group in […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – The John Simpson Sr. stakes series started its 2024 run at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania during the Monday afternoon harness racing card. The two-year-old pacing gelding No Trespassing (Sweet Lou) came within three-fifths of a second of the divisional track record with a 1:51.1 victory in one of two $58,000 events […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – You Got Me (Chapter Seven) raced to a strong 1:54 engine harness racing victory in the $15,500 featured claiming handicap trot Monday afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. All of the five outermost starters were away briskly, with You Got It, a four-year-old, parked with cover well past the :27.4 quarter, […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – Dandy Ideal, a freshman American Ideal gelding out of OK Heavenly, won in “nw2” company during the Monday afternoon card at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania,, with his final time of 1:51.1 only three fifths of a second off the Pocono harness racing track record for his division, the 1:50.3 set by […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – T C I (Cantab Hall) became the first male trotter in the 31-year harness racing history of the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes to win his divisional Championship at ages two and three, purposefully marching to the front in front of the stands and then maintaining his lead to the wire in the finale, […]
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 […]
Pocono Downs at Mohegan Sun is hosting an action-packed 14-race stakes card Saturday (Aug. 17) afternoon entitled Sun Stakes Saturday packed full with Grand Circuit harness racing stakes. This page contains all of the results and replays of all the stakes races. A livestream replay will be available at the bottom of this article. For […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – Royal Emeralds (Greenshoe) moved to the lead early and went on strongly to lower her mark to 1:55.1 to take the $15,000 harness racing trotting feature at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on Monday (Aug. 5) afternoon. Mischievous G was first on top, getting to the quarter in :28.4, and then driver […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – Matt Kakaley reclaimed the lead in the Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania drivers derby with a six-win performance on Saturday afternoon (Aug. 3), including a sweep of the three $17,000 featured harness racing trots, whose times went down as the track conditioned was rerated to a lesser condition. Two of Kakaley’s featured […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – In Papi Grad’s (Papi Rob Hanover – Betterthangraduate) two-race harness racing career, the freshman has won on both occasions in 1:51.1. On both occasions, she won by 10¼ lengths. And on both occasions, she thrilled fans seeing a potential superstar. Papi Grad added her second success in one of three $30,000 divisions […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – Imaginary Line (Betting Line) took his fifth straight victory in the $16,500 claiming handicap harness racing pacing feature at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania Sunday night (July 7), parlaying a pocket trip into a fairly easy win in 1:50.3. Imaginary Line started his streak in $15,000 company, and was taken for $22,000 […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – After one of the most exciting stretch battles of the harness racing season at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, Typhoon Banner N (Bettor’s Delight) emerged the winner in a three-horse photo, with his 1:48.4 new mark also the fastest mile of 2024 at Pocono. Congressional took advantage of the rail and forced […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – Last year’s Breeders Crown champion Gem Quality (Captain Crunch) made a successful 2024 debut on Saturday afternoon (May 11) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, winning one of four $30,000 harness racing divisions of a Pennsylvania All-Stars event for three-year-old pacing males. Gem Quality, whose Crowning achievement was accomplished in 1:50 at […]
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 – 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 horses on the way up the class ladder were featured in $15,000 contests on Tuesday afternoon (Mar. 12) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, under conditions that hinted of a pleasant upcoming spring. No Words (Tellitlikeitis) suffered interference when pacesetting favorite El Yerno made a break coming into the stretch […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – Three $15,000 races for developing horses were the featured harness racing events over a sloppy track during the first Tuesday afternoon (Mar. 5) card of the year at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. The gelding Bur Bun (Googoo Gaagaa), who had done well near the end of the Philly meet last year […]
WILKES-BARRE PA — Harness racing driver Tyler Buter held the hot driving hands during another frosty card at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, with $59.20 bomber Smooth Landing (Tactical Landing) taking the $17,000 featured trot as one of six winners on the Saturday afternoon program for the 38-year-old who is fast approaching 4500 career wins. […]
