Chester, PA – On Thursday (July 9), rain started before the scheduled 15-race card at Harrah’s Philadelphia so after three races over a “sloppy” surface as the rain intensified and local weather radar showed no relief in sight, the remaining 12 races were cancelled.
Lately the weather has not been kind to Harrah’s Philadelphia or the horsemen racing at the southeast Pennsylvania oval. The track had to cancel last Thursday and Friday’s programs because of the excessive heat.
And even under these restrictions, Tim Tetrick managed to widen his lead atop the Harrah’s driving derby, winning two of the three races held before the cancellation.
No rain is in Friday’s forecast until well past the scheduled time of the last race, so that day’s program, featuring the third preliminary of the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes and Stallion Series for 3-year-old trotting fillies, should be a “go” with a start time of 12:40 p.m. Free Philly program pages are or will be available at www.phha.org.