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Ken Hanover, near or at the top of his class of the free-for-all pacers for months on end now, was sent out to qualify at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Tuesday morning, and the son of Captaintreacherous showed he retained serious form with a victory in 1:50.4.

Woodbine Mohawk Park’s Race Office has released entry details for this weekend’s stakes events.

At the Italian ITS auction held on Monday (Sept. 8) at a horse center outside Milan, the top price was 210,000 Euros – 247,000 dollars – for the auction’s only Ready Cash offspring, the colt Last Chance, out of the good Italian mare Tessy d’Ete.

Four $17,000-plus divisions of the Maine Sire Stakes for 2- and 3-year old trotters arrived at historic Bass Park at Bangor Raceway Sunday (Sept. 7), with most showing continued success by divisional leaders, and another with a mild upset.

Rich Ashley and Michael Cain’s Steven’s Saloon ($23.80, Jason Thompson) was a 1:53 winner in the $18,000 Open at Harrington Raceway Monday (Sept. 8).

The Stay Hungry sophomore gelding Snack Attack equaled the fastest mile ever paced in a Pennsylvania Stallion Series Championship event, 1:50, and his filly counterpart, the Tall Dark Stranger miss Ballast, equaled the fastest StS Championship win for her sex, 1:50.2, as on Monday afternoon (Sept. 8) as Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania hosted eight $40,000 Championships of the Pennsylvania Stallion Series, for horses just a notch below the level their world-class Sire Stakes classmates occupy.

On Monday (Sept. 8) Dancin Champion collected his third consecutive triumph in the $35,000 third round leg of the Kentucky Sire Stakes for older male pacers at The Red Mile by a head in 1:50.1. Fearless Bettor visited the winner’s enclosure for the first occasion this season in the counterpart for older female pacers after a victory in 1:50.2. The facility’s third leading driver, Todd McCarthy, steered each winner and had three stakes-winning drives on the day.

Following is this week’s Meadows Monday Memo: