Pocono hosts PASS championships for 2-year-olds Monday
August 31, 2017,by PHHA/Pocono
Wilkes-Barre, PA — The best and brightest of the Pennsylvania-sired 2-year-old Standardbreds will be on full display at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono this coming Monday (Sept. 4). They will contest their four respective $252,000 Pennsylvania Sire Stakes championships.
There will also be a $50,000 consolation event, for the horses whose competition point levels fell just outside the top bracket, in each of the four divisions on Monday, which will usher in The Downs’ fall Monday post time of 4:30 p.m.
Last year the freshman championships were held at Harrah’s Philadelphia, where no favorite won, but Pocono-based trainer John Butenschoen captured both of the trotting events with horses driven for him by Corey Callahan. That pairing again figures prominently in Monday’s action.
To view the full fields, post positions, morning line odds, drivers and trainers for the card please click here.
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