There were decidedly mixed results in $20,000 first-round preliminaries of the Bobby Weiss Series for 3-year-old pacers on a cool Saturday afternoon (April 6) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. In the three dashes for fillies, two favorites and a second choice won; but in action for the sophomore males, the chalk met its Waterloo, with four second choices, a third choice and a 36-1 prospect winning.

Yer So Bad gave Tony Verruso victory in Saturday’s (April 6) lone Meadowlands Amateur Driving Club (MADC) event at the Meadowlands.

Austin Siegelman continues to dominate at Freehold Raceway. On Saturday (April 6), he earned a driving triple for the fourth consecutive card at Freehold, including back-to-back wins with Shrimp And Grits and Albert A’ Scootin and a 20-1 upset with Vasari N.

A pair of $20,000 California Sire Stakes for 3-year-old pacers are the main attractions Sunday evening (April 7) at Cal Expo, with Another Tuff Woman and Celebrity Status getting top billing.

With the wind playing havoc again on the Friday night (April 5) card at the Meadowlands, the three Meadowlands Amateur Driving Club events found the lead — or close to it — the place to be. The first race on the card saw Victoria Stratton drive her first-ever winner, sending 15-year-old Marty Monkhouser A to command early before setting sensible fractions and pulling away in the stretch to win by 11 lengths in 1:53.1.

After a dismal start to her 2024 season when last as the 3-5 favorite, Beach Cowgirl followed that up with a solid second-place finish to Always B Naughty, a stakes filly from a year ago, last week. That effort set her up to find the winner’s circle Friday night (April 5) at the Meadowlands in the featured $17,000 high-end conditioned pace for fillies and mares.

It was ladies day at Buffalo Raceway on Friday (April 5) as a pair of mares each took the co-featured $9,000 trotting events. Retha Babe ($8.60) and Muskingum ($4.60), both mares, used different tactics but got the same victorious results on the matinee program.