Sunny skies and a summer-like 78-degrees greeted a full apron of railbirds who turned out for the first day of the live harness racing meet at Plainridge Park on Monday afternoon (April 15).

Blackhawk Zette and Victor Laszlo took their second Bobby Weiss Trotting Series victories in $20,000 round two action for the sophomore males Monday (April 15) afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. In six $9,000 final prelim rounds of action among Game of Claims Series pacers carrying a $15,000 base claiming tag, no one was able to post wins in all three legs leading up to next Monday’s $17,500 Championship.

Top Maine pacer The Bird Dance N showed his heels to the field as he overpowered a strong group of top class sidesteppers to take Cumberland’s $7,000 Winners Over feature on Sunday (April 14) in 1:55.3.

It didn’t take long before the first sub-1:50 mile of 2024 was posted at Harrah’s Philadelphia, as All Class won the $13,000 featured pace in 1:49.3 on Sunday (April 14), just the second program of the year at the southeast Pennsylvania oval.

On Saturday (April 14) night Rosecroft Raceway hosted the annual Cloverleaf Standardbred Owners Association and the Maryland Standardbred Breeders Association awards dinner as both acknowledged their respective 2023 equine and human champions while honoring several longtime individuals who have recently passed away.

Warrawee Preferred won the $7,500 Jack Frost Preferred Trot at Cumberland on Saturday (April 13), which was his second win of the week.