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Dominion Day and Wish List won the $15,000 featured trots at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on Monday afternoon (Nov. 18) – one in a three-horse photo, and the other as easily as one could wish.

Kat’s Fancy and Indiana Star posted upsets in their respective $20,000 second-round preliminary Delaware Standardbred Breeders’ Fund events for 2-year-old trotting fillies on Monday (Nov. 18) at Bally’s Dover.

Steve Wilson came from off the pace on Sunday (Nov. 17) to capture the $5,000 top pace at Cumberland Raceway with George Fenno’s Instant Replay.

Neil Glasser swept the $7,500 divisions of the American Harness Drivers Club pace while Anthony Verruso won the lone $7,500 dash for the trotters on Sunday (Nov. 17) at Harrah’s Philadelphia. 

Yonkers Trot and New York Sire Stakes champion 3-year-old male trotter Sir Pinocchio has been voted the USTA District 8 Horse of the Year.

The first of the four B-races, Prix de Bretagne, was won on Sunday afternoon (Nov. 17) by the 7-year-old French trotter Hussard du Landret with Yoann Lebourgeois in the sulky in 1:54.4 (mile rate) — equaling the race record held by Face Time Bourbon.

Three weeks after a disappointing seventh-place finish to Coach Stefanos in the Breeders Crown Open Pace, Abuckabett Hanover pounced from the pocket to collar Ruthless Hanover for a 1:47.4 victory in the $125,000 Potomac Pace Invitational on Sunday (Nov. 17) at Rosecroft Raceway.

Its Saturday Night won on Sunday (Nov. 17) afternoon at Harrah’s Philadelphia, capturing the $13,500 featured pace for developing horses with ease in 1:51.1, just a tick over his mark, which he took in a Simpson stake at the end of October.

Steven Reisenweaver rolled down the road and William Clark Jr. powered to victory in their respective $7,500 divisions of the American Harness Drivers Club Trot at Freehold Raceway on Saturday (Nov. 16).