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The weekly $12,500 Opens for the best pacers and trotters on the grounds were once again held on Saturday (Nov. 8) night and the winner of both was piloted by the track’s leading dash driver, Drew Monti.

Merrow (Chris Long) captured the $8,500 featured pace at Vernon Downs on Saturday (November 8).

Surreal Ideal overcame the outside post and used a first-over effort to take the $28,000 Open Pace in Saturday (Nov. 8) action at Hollywood Gaming at Dayton Raceway to pick up his seventh straight race.

Wilkes-Barre, PA — The temperature was only slightly warmer than recently on Saturday afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. Still, many of the times were noticeably quicker, led by the 1:49…

Overcoming a track that was extremely unfriendly to horses racing on the front end, Simply Perfect made it to the lead while parked out at the half in :55.2 before going on to an easy score in the featured $12,500 mid-range conditioned pacing feature for fillies and mares at The Meadowlands Friday (Nov. 7) night.

Tellitlikeiseeit played hardball early with a challenger and drew off to score an open length victory in the first of two $18,000 condition claiming paces on Friday’s card (Nov. 7) at Hollywood Gaming at Dayton Raceway.

The inevitable On To Norway extended his win streak 20 as the star sophomore trotting colt crushed in the $42,000 Catholic Cowboy at Harrah’s Hoosier Park on Friday (Nov. 7) with driver John De Long for trainer Ron Burke.

Unusual Clarity (Ron Harp) captured the $7,500 featured fillies & mares’ pace at Vernon Downs on Friday (Nov. 7).

Prince Hal Hanover and Twisted Destiny, two Pennsylvania-sired sophomore colts who have been racing against Louprint and the very best of the state’s pacing “glamour division” since May, are still going strong in November, winning divisions of their Liberty Bell Stakes on Friday afternoon (Nov. 7) at Harrah’s Philadelphia on a chilly day with a strong stretch headwind.

Three-year-old trotting filly Kadena, a graded-stakes winning daughter of Gimpanzee-Mission Brief, led the way at the second-and-final day of the Standardbred Horse Sale’s mixed sale, selling for $1.2 million on Friday to Armitage Farm at the Pennsylvania State Farm Show Complex.