Author: by Matt Sparacino for Harrington Raceway

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.

A softer test and an inside post was the perfect recipe for Muskingum ($2.90) as the lone mare in the field showed the gentlemen how it is done by taking the $9,000 trot at Buffalo Raceway on Friday afternoon (June 21). She beat Spirit Of Success by 1-1/2 lengths in 1:57.4 over the fast track.

Per Engblom’s pacing titan Admiral Hill again exerted authority over his peers to muscle a near gate-to-wire victory in the $50,000 Kentucky Sire Stakes (KYSS) third round at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel on Monday (June 17) while also going the fastest mile ever paced over the track by an aged gelding.

P T Stable’s Beat Cop ($2.20, Tim Tetrick) was the fastest of  three Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF) winners Monday (June 17) at Harrington Raceway with a 1:54.3 triumph.

The Tactical Landing filly Marg In Charge had to work up first-over in the $15,000 trotting feature at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on Monday (June 17) afternoon, but she was then able to hold off the late move of second-over G Load by a neck in 1:54.3.