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.
Author: by PHHA for Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania
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).
Layton Hanover Wins Harrington FFA
Layton Hanover ($3.60, Montrell Teague) overcame an overland route for a decisive 1:52.3 win in the featured $22,500 Free-For-All Pace Monday (Oct. 21) at Harrington Raceway.
Meadows Monday Memo
The Meadows is now into its fall racing schedule, with 3 days of racing per week. This week we are racing Wednesday, Thursday at Friday afternoons at 12:45 p.m.
Full brothers finish one-two in Plainridge top trot
A fairly rare situation occurred at Plainridge Park on Monday (Oct. 21) afternoon when a pair of full brothers, Sea Can and Cruising Tom, finished first and second respectively in the $25,000 Winners-Over trotting feature.
Teague drives six winners Monday at Harrington
Driver Montrell Teague had six winners on the Monday (Oct. 14) Harrington Raceway 15-race program.
Zeron wins three Massachusetts Breeders Stakes at Plainridge
The third leg of the Massachusetts Breeders Stake for 2-year-olds of both gaits and sexes was held at Plainridge Park on Monday (Oct. 14) and state-bred first year starters competed for a total of $315,000 in purses.
Dancing Lew wins by a nose in Pocono feature
Dancing Lew, dismissed at 18-1 despite a third and a fourth in the same class since coming from Tioga, went wire-to-wire in the $15,500 featured claiming handicap pace Monday afternoon (Oct. 14) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, nosing out the potential pocket rocket Oakwoodnitownit IR in 1:52.4 as the temperatures clearly reflected the oncoming of fall.
Three in a row for Big Box Hanover at Plainridge Park
Big Box Hanover flexed his muscles again at Plainridge Park after taking down seven opponents to win his third consecutive $25,000 Open Handicap trot on Friday (Oct. 11) afternoon.