Author: by John Horne for Vernon Downs.

Matthews Rita (Leon Bailey) captures the featured $5,500 fillies & mares’ pace on Friday (April 25).

It was quite a Friday afternoon (April 25) for driver Jim Morrill Jr. as he rolled to six wins on the 11-race card at Buffalo Raceway, sweeping both featured events along the way.

On Friday afternoon (April 25( Dougs Babe A enjoyed the switch from Yonkers to Harrah’s Philadelphia, winning the $13,000 handicap pacing feature for females in 1:52.1.

Virgil Morgan Jr. trainee Women Layer delivered all faith of his 2-5 promise in the second of two $50,000 Kentucky Sire Stakes (KYSS) divisions for 4-year-old pacing horses and geldings at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel on Monday (April 21), stopping the clock in 1:50.4 to win by open lengths.

Tlb Racing’s Downers Delight ($4, Pat Berry) rebounded with a resounding 1:51.3 win in the $17,000 Delaware Special Monday (April 21) at Harrington Raceway. One week after bearing out on the final turn and ultimately yielding the win yet still finishing second as the beaten favorite, Downers Delight responded with a powerful performance to win for the sixth time in seven starts for trainer Traci Berry.

Flanked virtually the entire stretch by strong members of Team Orange Crush, the Chapter Seven colt Karinchak persevered strongly on the lead to win Monday’s (April 21) $50,000 Championship of the Bobby Weiss Trotting Series for sophomore males in 1:53.2, equaling the fastest trotting mile of the year at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.

Ron Burke trainee Tip Top Cat again had to muscle through a difficult mile, but the gutsy son of Always B Miki braved the wide trip and fast fractions to prevail in the $30,000 Open Handicap Pace at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel on Monday afternoon (April 14).

Three-year-old trotters were spotlighted in $20,000 preliminary divisions of their respective Bobby Weiss Series at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on Monday (April 14), with males going in their third and final preliminary before next Monday’s (April 21) $50,000 Championship, while the distaffs contested their second prelim. There were three divisions for each sex.

George and Tina Dennis’ Mack ($101.20, Jim Morand) sprung a 50-to-1 upset in the $17,000 featured Delaware Special Monday (April 14) on opening night of Harrington Raceway’s 79th season of live harness racing in 1:52.2.

Hamburg, NY — Jim Morrill Jr. made his first driving appearance of the 2025 season on Friday afternoon (April 4) and it didn’t take him long to make his presence known as…