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Kaddari, who started her career with wins in the last two prelims of the Bobby Weiss Series for 3-year-old trotting fillies, added the $50,000 Weiss championship to her rapidly-growing resume on Tuesday afternoon (May 2) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. The $375,000 yearling stopped the timer in 1:56 on a cool day with a strong stretch headwind.

The USTA’s Content Manager/On-Air Analyst Wendy Ross talked with Eldorado Scioto Downs’ Director of Racing Jason Roth about the track’s brand-new grandstand, and other changes being unveiled for the 2023 racing season.

Ammo and Confederate, sons of Sweet Lou respectively first and second in the Breeders Crown final for 2-year-old pacing colts in 2022, finished in those same positions during a 1:51 Tuesday morning (May 2) qualifier at Harrah’s Philadelphia.

Beautiful Seaside sent a message to her rivals in the first leg of the Buckeye Stallion Series for 3-year-old pacing fillies. The Downbytheseaside filly turned in the best time of the night on the way to a commanding 9-1/4 length win at Miami Valley Raceway.

Front-stepping Queen Of Success survived late charges from her left and right to keep a scant nose in front of a stacked finish in the $50,000 Kentucky Sires Stakes second preliminary for 4-year-old pacing mares on Monday afternoon (May 1) at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming and Hotel to pull one of many upsets in the stakes action.

Kdk Standardbreds’ Heinikin Bythebay ($2.80, Art Stafford Jr.) was a 1:53.1 winner in the featured $20,000 Open Monday (May 1) at Harrington Raceway, while trainer Crissy Crissman-Bier had four wins on the evening.

After having a career year in 2022, La Bella Vita N has returned to action in fine form in 2023 and claimed her second consecutive win in only three starts this year on Monday afternoon (May 1) at Plainridge Park in the $25,000 fillies and mares Winners-Over pacing feature and took a personal season’s best mark in the process.

C Is For Cookie was the only competitor in the Bobby Weiss Series for 3-year-olds who won all three of her preliminary races, and on Monday (May 10 afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, the daughter of Betting Line racked up the “Grand Slam” by impressively winning the final of the pacing misses section. The time was 1:52.4 over a track which had just been rerated to “sloppy.”

The 9-year-old Italian trotter Vernissage Grif (sired by the French champion sire Love You) may never have been better. Though he had to trot outside leading Capital Mail with Gabriele Gelormini, he was strongest down the stretch and won the Gran Premio Lotteria by a length in 1:52f followed by Bleff Diba with Roberto Vecchione and Capital Mail.

Five divisions of 3-year-old filly trotters opened the first leg of the Buckeye Stallion Series Sunday (April 30) at Miami Valley Raceway. Each division carried a purse of $20,000.