Update on Sun Stakes Saturday finals
June 27, 2017,from the PHHA/Pocono
Wilkes-Barre, PA — The fields for the four rich championship races to be held during this weekend’s $2,169,500 Sun Stakes Saturday card at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, have been updated with final driver assignments and morning line odds.
To see the entries for the complete card, click here.
And while the hoofbeats of the 3-year-old and older champions and the roar of the crowd from the previous night will still be faintly echoing, Pocono will host 10 divisions of the first stakes racing for the 2017 2-year-olds, with $30,000 on the line in each event of Pennsylvania All-Stars competition for the most promising of the state’s freshmen.
There will be four divisions of colt pacers, in races one, three, 12, and 14, and six divisions of colt trotters, in races two, four, five, eight, 11, and 13.
Post time on Sun Stakes Saturday is 6:30 p.m.; Sunday’s card begins one hour later.
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