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On Monday (June 2), Monticello Raceway hosted its first New York Sire Stakes of the 2025 season with 3-year-old colt and gelding trotters. Tyler Buter walked away with a driving double, taking the lone $119,700 NYSS event with BJM’s Lil Man and an Excelsior dash aboard Habanero Blues.

Members of the American Harness Drivers Club (AHDC) had a busy but competitive Sunday (June 1) of racing with a pair of pacing events at Harrah’s Philadelphia in the afternoon and a pair of trotting events many miles north at Mohegan Pennsylvania’s Pocono Downs in the evening – and each race saw a different face visit the winner’s circle.

The New York Sire Stakes hits Buffalo Raceway for the first time in 2025 and they’ll open the traveling series with a big bang on Wednesday afternoon (June 4).

Attraente (Gimpanzee) treated fans to a dazzling performance on Sunday night (June 1) at Running Aces, converting a perfect pocket trip into a 2-1/2 length tally in 1:56.3 to lower the track mark for sophomore trotting fillies while picking up her second win in a row in the Banker Volo series.

If you were ever to see a six-horse field lined up 6-5-4-3-2-1 under the wire the first time, it would be in the featured $16,500 claiming handicap pace at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, where the claiming price of the entrants, in the order listed above, was $39,000, $36,000, $34,000, $32,000, and two $30,000’s.

Tioga Downs welcomed two $52,500 divisions of the New York Sire Stakes (NYSS) for sophomore pacing fillies on Sunday (June 1).

Driver Todd McCarthy, clicking at just over a 25% clip for the year at Harrah’s Philadelphia, was the dominant force on the Sunday (June 1) afternoon card at Philly, winning three of the four feature events.

Cumberland Raceway fans were reminded that age is only a number on on Saturday (May 31) as 87-year-old Bob Nadeau made his way to the winners circle once again at the iconic Southern Maine oval.