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June 27, 2022 by Ken Weingartner, USTA Media Relations ManagerAfter beating a tornado, Rock It Out is back to defeating horses. Rock It Out, a 5-year-old female pacer, last week won a $22,000 Fillies and Mares Open at Oak Grove Racing in a career-best 1:49.4 for owner/trainer Donna Holt. The triumph came six months after the mare was one of six horses to survive a devastating tornado that passed through western Kentucky on Dec. 10 and destroyed Holt’s house and barn.
June 27, 2022 by Mike Sweeney, for Bangor RacewayPembroke Legacy continued to build upon her storybook career on Sunday (June 26), etching out yet another determined epic at Bangor Raceway while remaining undefeated in Maine Sire Stakes competition this season.
June 27, 2022 by Frank Fraas, OHHA Outreach and PR CoordinatorThe second leg of the Buckeye Stallion Series wrapped up at MGM Northfield Park Sunday night (June 26) with the four favorites earning victories. Three-year-old colt trotters Phantom Tom and Hustlenomics picked up their second BSS victories while Mo Bay and Slim Jimmy won for the first time in the series.
June 26, 2022 by PHHA for Pocono DownsWilkes-Barre, PA – Driver Tim Tetrick swept the two divisions of the $135,032 third preliminary of the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes for three-year-old pacing fillies during the Sunday (June 26) card at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, taking both sections with daughters of Captaintreacherous: winning first with (inter)national divisional leader Treacherous Dragon, and then with Captain Cowgirl in the faster cut.
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