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The first clash of the Hambletonian-hopeful 3-year-old trotting males took place Monday afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, with even-money shots Herodotus and Once In A Lifetime earning new speed marks while winning their respective $37,500 divisions.

Favorites won all four divisions of the $155,948 second preliminary round of the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes for 3-year-old pacing males at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania Sunday night (May 21), with Hall of Fame trainer Linda Toscano sending out two of the PaSS winners.

The $20,000 Open trotting class proved challenging once again on Sunday (May 21), as the co-featured event not only produced the third different winner in three weeks, but for the third week in a row a world record was set over the “Home of the Flying Turns” at MGM Northfield Park.

Erv Miller trainee Im Sir Blake A survived a persistent first-over grind and won going away as the odds-on favorite in the $28,000 Open Handicap Pace at Oak Grove Racing, Gaming and Hotel on Sunday afternoon (May 21).

Driver Trevor Henry utilized the pylon post with Fourever Boy and procured a pocket ride to glory when he then shot through the open stretch and took the C$262,000 Charles Juravinski Memorial Cup for pacing 4-year-olds on Sunday night (May 21) at Flamboro Downs.

One of the featured events on the Sunday evening (May 21) card at Running Aces was the Seppo Hakamaa Memorial race, a $7,200 trotting event which attracted a field of seven.

The United States Harness Drivers Club, enjoying its new reincarnation in Kentucky at Oak Grove Racing and Gaming, had a rare pari-mutuel event on Sunday (May 21), as its two events produced a Tony Dinges-Dein Spriggs exacta in each race.

Heath Campbell set a track record in the $5,000 opener with Pembroke Ideal BJ while his older brother Drew Campbell finished second in that mile. Later in the day, Drew Campbell captured the $6,500 featured trot with Little Macabee, to give the orange-clad products of the Canadian Maritimes bookend victories on Sunday (May 21) at Cumberland.

Stockholm, SE – No North-American trotter will race in the prestigious Elitloppet at Solvalla next Sunday (May 28th) but two top drivers from here will drive.

Chester, PA – Sunday afternoon (May 21) at Harrah’s Philadelphia saw a world record and a track record in “odd-distance” races along with a sharp win in the $20,000 Open trot by Pappardelle in 1:52.2.