Featured at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania during a Sunday (June 7) twilight card were a pair of $15,500 paces, one for the top area claimers and the other for developing horses.
Author: from PHHA Pocono
Twisted Destiny goes raw from last, wins Philly feature
Twisted Destiny, one of the better 3-year-olds of the 2025 campaign, is keeping up his strong form in 2026, as he came uncovered from last and still was able to win the $16,000 featured fast-class handicap pace Sunday (June 7) at Harrah’s Philadelphia – the 1,999th recorded North American training victory for Hall of Famer Chris Ryder.
Pair of KYSS preps headline Oak Grove week
Thirteen trotting sophomores will square off across a pair of $20,000 Kentucky Sire Stakes prep races — one for each sex — that serve as co-features on Monday’s (June 8) harness racing program at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel.
Matai Phil N wins Sunday feature at Tioga Downs
Matai Phil N (Braxten Boyd) captured the $11,500 featured pace at Tioga Downs on Sunday (June 7), doing so with a lifetime best performance.
Three Times Bettor seeks ninth straight win in Oak Grove KYSS
Following her 1:48.3 lifetime-best and track-record equaling performance in the Kentucky Sire Stakes spring series final and a resounding 1:49.4 score last week in the first preliminary of the summer series, Thaddeus Wier’s Three Times Bettor will put an eight-race win streak on the line in the second round of the current Kentucky Sire Stakes series for 4-year-old pacing mares on Monday (June 1) at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel.
Team Buter/Burke succeed with The Hazleton Sunday at Pocono
As Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania held the first of nine Sunday twilight cards to be raced every week through the end of July, The Hazelton pushed hard early to protect the pocket behind favorite Inquisitive Dan, then came up the Pocono Pike to catch the leader and win the $13,500 featured trot in 1:54 (May 31).
On Accident, TH Colby Philly feature winners
Enough fast-class pacers dropped in for the Sunday afternoon (May 31) card at Harrah’s Philadelphia that there could be two $13,000 divisions at the highest level, which were won by On Accident (1:49.4) and TH Colby (1:50.1).
Flag Party wins Tioga Open Pace
Flag Party, driven by Joe Chindano Jr., captured the $14,000 featured Open Pace at Tioga Downs on Sunday (May 31) in a lifetime best effort.
Touchedbyanangel tops Strobe Lite for OSS Gold win
Touchedbyanangel’s second career Ontario Sires Stakes victory was an impressive one. The gelding overcame Post 10 and a late charge from 2025 O’Brien Award winner and Super Final champ Strobe Lite to post a lifetime-best 1:53 victory in the lone $140,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Series division for sophomore trotting colts in the fog on Sunday (May 24) at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
Caviart Daisy completes Virginia Breeders Fund Series sweep
Frank Chick’s Caviart Daisy put a stamp on her three-leg Virginia Breeders Fund series, capturing a $107,800 championship in the sophomore filly/mare pacing division Saturday (May 23) at Shenandoah Downs. The Sweet Lou filly crossed in 1:53.1 over a sloppy track, equaling the divisional record mark she set two weeks ago.