Author: By Tim Bojarski for the Standardbred Owners of Massachusetts

Summer in Massachusetts has been very good to the connections of Fourever Boy this year, who won his fourth race of the meet by taking the $20,000 Open Handicap pacing feature at Plainridge Park on Monday (July 1) afternoon.

Ken Rucker trainee Little Rocket Man again braved troubled seas out of post eight to grab a repeat 1:49.3 win off a parked mile in the $40,000 Open Pace at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel on Monday (July 1).

The Bar Hopping sophomore gelding Attis Rock came up the inside to just catch pacesetter G Load in 1:57 while taking the $15,000 featured trot at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania Monday (July 1) afternoon.

After making an untimely break in the marque event last week, Fourever Boy bounced back with a perfect trip and won the $20,000 Open Handicap pacing feature at Plainridge Park on Monday afternoon (June 24).

Tlb Racing’s Captaincountrystar ($9.20, Pat Berry) scored his fifth straight win Monday (June 24) at Harrington Raceway in 1:50.4 in the featured $22,500 Free-for-All.

Here is this week’s Meadows Monday Memo: 

The Donato Hanover gelding Donato Patriot K thundered home in :27.3 to complete a 1:55 victory in the $11,000 fast-class trot Monday (June 24) afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.

Stepabovetherest (Braxten Boyd) and Tarrific (Jason Bartlett) each set the track record (1:49.4) for sophomore fillies getting wins in the New York Sire Stakes (NYSS) for 3-year-old pacing fillies at Vernon Downs on Friday (June 21).

Beginning to harken back to her record-setting form of 2023, the Heston Blue Chip filly Odds On Hail Mary paced to her second victory in a row Friday (June 21) afternoon at Harrah’s Philadelphia, capturing the featured $13,000 distaff handicap in 1:50.4.