Dover, DE — After gait issues derailed her over the half-mile Harrington Raceway oval, Lady Burg got her bearings back by way of a lifetime-best 2:00.1 win in the second of two…
Author: from the Delaware Standardbred Breeders' Fund
Pocket Rockets account for Pocono features
The same phrase applies to the outcome of both $15,000 trotting features at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on Monday (Nov. 11) afternoon: “Pocketsitter overhauls pacesetter.”
Quarrel wins feature at Vernon Downs
Quarrel (Chris Long) takes the $8,500 featured Fillies & Mares Open Pace at Vernon Downs on Friday (Nov. 8).
My Degenerate generates track record at Philly
On a Friday (Nov. 8) when it looked like the fast-class older set would be grabbing the headlines at Harrah’s Philadelphia, up pops a maiden 2-year-old altered trotting son of Muscle Hill – Decadence named My Degenerate, who scorched the 5/8-miler oval in 1:53.1, breaking the divisional track record and just missing the divisional world standard.
Freshman stake winners impress at Philly
Both Knockout Round and Sugar Man lowered their lifetime speed records by over two seconds in capturing their respective divisions of the $87,000 Liberty Bell stake for 2-year-old pacing males Friday (Nov. 1) afternoon at Harrah’s Philadelphia.
Bailey wins four including feature at Vernon
Leading driver Leon Bailey drove four winners on the card including the $8,500 featured Open Trot with Woodside Gabe at Vernon Downs on Friday (Nov. 1).
USTA & National Racing Compact at The Black Book Sale
The USTA will be set up at The Black Book Sale at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex November 4-8.
Powerful finish to Simpson Series at Pocono
In winding up the John Simpson Sr. Memorial stakes races for the year at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on Monday afternoon (Oct. 28), the dominant players were the sophomore trotter Sir Pinocchio, who achieved one distinction while just missing two others in winning a division for his group in 1:51.4; trainer Åke Svanstedt, who sent out the divisional winners in the other three of the 3-year-old diamondgaited action; and the pairing of driver Tim Tetrick and trainer Jim King Jr., who swept the races for two-year-old pacing fillies.
MGM Grand Prix Trotting Series resumes Friday at Yonkers
Two $75,000 divisions of the second leg of the MGM Grand Prix Trotting Series will go behind the gate on Friday night (Nov. 1) at MGM Yonkers Raceway.
Simpson Stakes get underway at Pocono Monday
The John Simpson Sr. stakes series started its 2024 run at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania during the Monday afternoon (Oct. 21) card. The 2-year-old pacing gelding No Trespassing came within three-fifths of a second of the divisional track record with a 1:51.1 victory in one of two $58,000 events for his group, while Åke Svanstedt trained and drove two of the four winners in $30,000 sections of the stakes for 3-year-old trotting fillies. Today’s races were called the Bret Hanover and the Elma, respectively (all Simpson divisions carry the name of a top horse with whom Simpson had some association throughout his Hall Of Fame career).