Author: from PHHA/Pocono

Lexus Ranger improved his record at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania to three wins in four outings since arriving from The Meadows, winning the fastest of Tuesday’s (May 23) three $15,500 top-level claiming handicap trots at the mountain oval.

The absence of Keg Stand from Monday’s (May 22) fourth and last preliminary round of the Kentucky Standardbred Development Fund (KSDF) series for 4-year-old male trotters has the potential to set up a showdown between Golden Wall As and Longshot in the $50,000 event at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming & Hotel, one of four such preliminary splits on the card.

Brilliant Beauty and Tyler Miller easily won the featured $13,000 Fillies and Mares Open 1-2 Handicap Pace on Saturday (May 20) at Tioga Downs.

Stewardoftheland (Claude Huckabone Jr.) and Telenovela (Dylan Huckabone-Miller) took the $7,500 co-features on Saturday (May 20) at Vernon Downs.

Southwind Amazon, the third winningest Standardbred of all time, captured his 127th career win in Saturday’s (May 20) featured $10,800 Open Pace at Northville Downs.

Up Your Deo stunned a field scratched to 10 to win the second leg of the New Jersey Sires Stakes (NJSS) for sophomore trotting colts at 43-1 on Saturday (May 20) at the Meadowlands. The Walner colt recorded his first victory, defeating favorite Oh Well in a duel to the finish of a 1:52 mile.

The SBOA Stakes for Ontario-sired 3-year-olds featured a quartet of entertaining finals on Saturday night (May 20) at Woodbine Mohawk Park.

Tony Too Tall ($6.20) didn’t come up short in Buffalo Raceway’s $15,500 Open Pace on Saturday evening (May 20), rallying to post a 1-1/4-length decision over Alta Engen A in 1:55 over a good track.

Reinsman Nick Graffam started Saturday’s (May 20) Cumberland program needing just one victory to push him to 1,000 lifetime driving wins. That moment finally arrived in the afternoon’s eighth race, in which Four Finger Floyd put the Maine native into the four-figure win category.