Due to the impending winter storm, the draw normally conducted on Tuesday (March 1)4 for Sunday (March 19) and Monday (March 20) will take place on Wednesday (March 15). The box closes at 9 a.m.
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Game Of Claims, woes for chalk continue at Pocono
The Game Of Claims Series for $7,500 base-priced horses conducted its first preliminary in four $7,500 divisions on Monday (March 6) afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. And the highly-regarded horses at the windows continued to take a shellacking in the claiming ranks –the chalk won in the GOC’s first Saturday (March 4) prelim, and then the favorites amazingly lost the remaining seventeen contests for the selling pacers.
Six-figure auction tops another busy week at onGait.com
The Captaintreacherous mare The Big Hen p,2,Q1:58.1s led all auctions at onGait.com this week when she sold for $100,400 to Steve Jones of Cameo Hills Farm, New York. In foal to Always B Miki, the half-sister to millionaire Medusa p,3,1:51.2; 1:49 and
champion Canadian filly Alicorn p,2,1:50.3 was consigned by Steve Heimbecker of Ontario.
GSY Recap from Friday Night at the Meadowlands..
Two GSY events were carded on Friday (March 3) night with the temperatures in the low 40s at post time and the track listed as fast.
Game Of Claims Series starts Saturday at Pocono
The coming of March finds the number of racing programs offered per week at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania rising to three, as there will be Saturday, Sunday, and Monday action starting at 1 p.m. all through the month. Each day will also feature a different price division of the popular Game Of Claims Series.
Mother Nature causes premature end to Monday’s card at Yonkers
Due to continuing heavy snowfall and deteriorating track conditions, Yonkers Raceway was forced to cancel races nine, ten, and 11 on Monday night’s (Feb. 27) program.
Woodbine Mohawk Park cancels Monday card after five races; Training cancelled on Tuesday
Woodbine Mohawk Park was forced to cancel Monday (Feb. 27) evening’s card of live racing after five races due to poor weather conditions.
A break was no bust for Buzz at Batavia
Monday (Feb. 27) was the final day of racing for the Batavia Downs winter meet with the card starting out clear and ending in a snow globe. The day’s $13,000 featured Open I trot was contested amidst the flying flakes where race winner Buzz (Mike Baumeister) overcame more than just the weather to claim victory.
GSY Recap from Friday Night at the Meadowlands
Two GSY events were carded on Friday (Feb. 24) night under a fast track with frigid conditions and a negative one track variant.
Batavia featured Pop-Up Series finals
Four finals of the Western New York Pop-Up Series headlined the card at Batavia Downs on Monday (Feb. 20) with a total of $63,000 distributed between those events.