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WILKES-BARRE PA – The leading horsemen (and defending champions) in the statistical categories at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, driver Tyler Buter and trainer Ron Burke, combined to win Tuesday’s $20,000 featured fast-class trot at the mountain oval with Southwind Coors, who boosted his lifetime earnings to $752,456 with a 1:52.2 victory. The Walner gelding […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – Tyler Buter drove three of the last four winners on the final 2025 card of racing at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on Saturday afternoon, raising his seasonal total at the mountain oval to exactly 300 while capturing his first local victory crown. The 40-year-old, seventh in North America in wins this year, […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – The leading harness racing driver at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, Tyler Buter, won half of Saturday’s fourteen races at the northeast Pennsylvania oval, including both features – one routinely (if a 12-1 win is ever routine) and the one after surviving an inquiry dealing with a late miscue. His seven-bagger matched […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – After having recorded just two harness racing victories over a period of 777 days, the Credit Winner gelding Quiksilvr Bluechip has now won two races in the last seven days after fashioning a career-best 1:53.1 while winning the $16,000 featured claiming handicap trot at Pocono Downs at Mohean Pennsylvania on Tuesday afternoon. […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – Tyler Buter, who has been the leading harness racing driver at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania during the afternoon and evening pari-mutuel racing, decided to extend his dominance to the mornings as well, as he won five qualifying races at the northeast Pennsylvania oval on Wednesday, guiding three of trainer Hunter Oakes’s […]
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 – 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, […]
Tioga Downs played host to two harness racing divisions of the New York Sire Stakes (NYSS) for freshmen filly trotters on Sunday (July 14). Driver Tyler Buter swept both divisions. My Debt Collector (Chapter Seven-Magic Presto, Buter) takes the $54,500 first division. Caviart Adele (James MacDonald) went to the front and led to the quarter […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – Harness racing driver Tyler Buter had a first-rate day in the sulky Saturday afternoon (July 13) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, coming back to the winner’s circle six times on the program, including winning two of the three trotting features and the top pace. Both Buter’s diagonally gaited feature winners posted […]
Harness racing trainer Travis Alexander won the MGM Grand Messenger Stakes final for 3-year-old male pacers at MGM Yonkers Raceway for a third time and swept the exacta in Friday night’s (June 28) $225,000 edition of the first leg of the Pacing Triple Crown, as Sweet Beach Life (Sweet Lou) rallied past stablemate Howlenthehills for […]
Tioga Downs played host to two $57,000 harness racing divisions of the New York Sire Stakes for 3-year-old trotting fillies on Friday (June 7). Both divisions were won by driver Tyler Buter. Honey’s Sweet (Chapter Seven) upsets in the $57,000 first division. Winning Alliance (Todd Ratchford) went straight to the front and led to the […]
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. […]
Without having to make a move off the rail until they started down the stretch, Red Right Hand (Captaintreacherous) scored a big harness racing upset at 18-1 odds in capturing the $36,000 Open Pace at Yonkers Raceway Wednesday (Oct. 18) evening. The 6th race feature for 3-5-year-olds saw Southwind Petyr (Jason Bartlett) shoot to the […]
Lady’s Image (Dontyouforgetit) hung tough on the front end to capture the harness racing featured claiming handicap trot on Tuesday afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. The race carried claiming prices of $25,000 to $30,000 and a purse of $15,500. A seven-year-old trained by Mike Watson, Lady’s Image, the 7-2 second betting choice leaving […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – On Monday afternoon (May 15) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, the theme of the day was “Driver Tyler Buter and Trainer John Butenschoen Click With Another Three-Year-Old Trotter,” as the *trotmeisters* sent out four winning diamondgaited sophomores, including both harness racing winners in the $15,000 featured races. The faster of the […]
This Is The Plan (Somebeachsomewhere), Idealsomemagic A (American Ideal), and Covered Bridge (American Ideal) emerged victorious from the final harness racing leg of the MGM Borgata Pacing Series on Monday night (April 17) at MGM Yonkers Raceway. 2021 MGM Borgata Pacing Series champion This Is The Plan had a best finish of second in this […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – Bestfriend Volo and Moni Book have stamped themselves as the horses to beat in the Bobby Weiss Series for three-year-old harness racing trotting colts, winning their second straight preliminary Sunday evening (April 16) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania while both taking new identical marks of 1:55. The Walner gelding Bestfriend Volo […]
Backstreet Shadow’s (Shadow Play) 1:49.3 harness racing triumph in the first of three $50,000 flights of the fourth round of the MGM Borgata Pacing Series on Monday night (Apr. 10) at MGM Yonkers Raceway gave the venerable campaigner a share of the all-age track record. In that contest, 1-2 favorite Jimmy Freight (Scott Zeron) pressed […]
Harness racing drivers Tyler Buter and Scott Zeron both won a pair of divisions of the first round of the John Brennan Trotting Series on Wednesday night (April 5) at MGM Yonkers Raceway. Each of the six sections carried a purse of $25,000. Buter teamed up with trainer Ricky Bucci to tally with 4-year-old Muscle […]
WILKES-BARRE PA – A trio of $15,000 races for oncoming “nw 4 races lifetime” horses topped the Sunday afternoon (Feb. 19) harness racing card at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Sun Pennsylvania, with the mountain temperatures very non-winterish at about 50 degrees all day. Most impressive in victory was the Whataworkout gelding Cantstop Yankee, who went […]
Monticello, N.Y. – Harness racing driver Tyler Buter had the hot hand and then some yesterday afternoon at Monticello. He drove four New York Sire Stakes winners on the card for the two-year-old trotting fillies. Ruth Honig (Chapter Seven) and Woolco (Chapter Seven) both won their respective divisions. In the first heat of NYSS racing, for a purse of $52,500, Tyler […]
It had been just over three months since Jack’s Legend N (Bettor’s Delight) was able to lead from start to finish and win the race, which is exactly what he did at Yonkers Raceway Monday night (Aug. 1). In fact, the New Zealand-bred eight-year-old gelding and two others of his countrymates were the first three […]
JD and American Ticket were the harness racing winners of the two W.N. Reynolds Memorial events for 3-year-old pacers that took place on Friday evening (May 6) at Yonkers Raceway over a sloppy, rain-soaked track. In the $41,100 Tar Heel for colts and geldings, PJ Lou (George Brennan) took the lead away from JD (Tyler […]
WILKES-BARRE, PA – The $20,000 divisions of the second-round preliminaries of the Bobby Weiss Series for three-year-old fillies on Monday afternoon at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono had a driving star on each harness racing gait – Tyler Buter won three of the trotting sections, and Andrew McCarthy won three of the pacing cuts. […]
