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Pocono Downs has completed an action-packed 14-race stakes card Saturday (Aug. 16) afternoon entitled Sun Stakes Saturday packed full with Grand Circuit harness racing stakes. This page contains results and replays of all the stakes races. RACE 14 “”Always B Miki” Invitational $100,000 RACE 13 “Earl Beal, Jr. Memorial” 3 Yr. Old Open $300,000 […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – The Sweet Lou mare Louisville GB keeps slugging her way up the condition ladder with a strong front-end harness racing victory in the $17,000 distaff pacing feature Monday afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, winning in 1:53.1 with temperatures not much above freezing for the bulk of the card. Tyler Buter, […]
After closing out his third consecutive driving title at Mohegan Pennsylvania’s Pocono Downs last week, Matt Kakaley can still add to his list of accomplishments before his 2024 harness racing campaign comes to an end next month. Kakaley has already set a career high for purse earnings this year, with $9.55 million, but has his […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – The final card of the 2024 harness racing season at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania was held Saturday afternoon, with an off track, temperatures barely above 40, and snow in the infield. Closing day features were a trio of $17,000 contests, all of them contested after the track was upgraded from “sloppy […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – On a cool fall afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania where the spotlight races were very competitive (four of the five harness racing features were decided by a length or less), De La Hoya Hanover (Stay Hungry) took a 1:51 decision over Seen Here in the pacing section of three $17,000 […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – The same phrase applies to the outcome of both $15,000 trotting harness racing features at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on Monday afternoon: “Pocketsitter overhauls pacesetter.” The quicker of the two feature winners was the Walner sophomore trotting filly Sapphirerainstar, who is undefeated in four starts since coming to Pocono from New […]
WILKES-BARRE PA –Herodotus (Bar Hopping) took his third harness racing victory in his last four starts, winning the $18,500 fast-class trotting feature at a cool Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on Saturday afternoon, going the mile in 1:53.1. Away third with the favored Bar Hopping gelding, driver George Napolitano Jr. made an aggressive move to […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – A trio of $15,000 feature races headlined the final harness racing card of the week at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania – two trotting handicaps and a pacing distaff contest, all for horses on the improve. The faster trotter comes from the seemingly-limitless roster of quality horses from the barn of Åke […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – Big Ben Pellini S (Ready Cash) was large and in charge of the faster of two $15,000 harness racing trotting features on Monday afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, winning in hand in 1:53.2 on a cool day. Ridge Warren sent the Ready Cash sophomore gelding to the lead towards the […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – Horses looking to climb the classladder to higher levels held the spotlight Saturday afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, with a trio of $17,000 harness racing events featured. On the pace, the Captain Crunch sophomore gelding Southwind Celsius won his third straight in this class, but it was only the seventh […]
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 – On probably the last day the temperature will reach 80 degrees at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania for the next six months, Pressure Cooker (Heston Blue Chip, 1:50) and Staying With Emily (Stay Hungry, 1:50.2) won harness racing divisions of the $80,000 Hardie Hanover, the John Simpson Sr. Memorial for three-year-old pacing […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – Dancing Lew (A Rocknroll Dance), dismissed at 18-1 despite a third and a fourth in the same class since coming from Tioga, went wire-to-wire in the $15,500 featured claiming handicap pace Monday afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, nosing out the potential harness racing pocket rocket Oakwoodnitownit IR in 1:52.4 as […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – A quartet of $15,000 races topped the Tuesday afternoon harness racing program at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, two for conditioned pacers and two for claiming trotters. The Captaintreacherous colt Maxim Hanover, who won a Governor’s Cup elimination last year and was third in the final but had had only one start […]
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 – 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. […]
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 — 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 […]
Wilkes-Barre, PA — Captain Albano (Captaintreacherous-Angelou) moved to the outside from the pocket coming off the final turn and got to favorite Legendary Hanover just prior to the wire to win Saturday’s $300,000 Max C. Hempt Memorial for 3-year-old pacers by a nose in 1:48.3 at Mohegan Pennsylvania’s Pocono Downs. Gem Quality finished third. Driver […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – Developing harness racing horses were featured in a quartet of $15,000 headlining contests on a pleasant Tuesday afternoon (March 26) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. In the pace for males, A Major Attitude (Captaintreacherous) sprung a major upset, with the gelding brushing to the lead into the far turn for driver […]
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 […]
