Frederick Weitz Jr.’s Better Gon kept his undefeated record intact with a lifetime-best 1:54.1 win in the Wayne Smullin Memorial, for 2-year-old male pacers, one of four $95,000 Maryland Sire Stakes fall series championship events held Monday (Oct. 6) at Rosecroft Raceway.

A trio of second leg $20,000 Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF) action for 2-year-old pacing colts and geldings highlighted the Monday (Oct. 6) 15-race Harrington Raceway program. Burke Racing, Knox Services, Phillip Collura and Weaver Bruscemi’s Watch Em Win ($2.10, Tim Tetrick) was a menacing landslide winner in the fastest division (1:53.1). The Ron Burke-trainee notched his fifth win in seven career starts. A He’s Watching colt, he was an open length winner over He’s Webster and Kd’s Song.

Younger horses on their way to bigger purses (and tougher competition) met for $15,500 in a pair of features on Monday afternoon (Oct. 6) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. One of the headliners was a pace for distaffs, the other a trot.

The $2.4 million Massachusetts Breeders Stakes were back at it on Monday (Oct. 6) at Plainridge Park with seven events featuring 2-year-old trotters and pacers in competition.

For the fifth time this year, But Why secured a win in the Open Trot at Saratoga Casino Hotel when on Monday afternoon (Oct. 6), the young high-stepper scored in the $18,500 feature.

Vanessa Karlewicz uncorked a lights-out performance to win one of two $10,000 divisions of the American Harness Drivers Club (AHDC) Trot over the weekend at Pocono Downs, while over 200 miles due northwest Candace Brandstatter-Hall collected her first Provisional-license win in one of two $7,500 amateur driving events at Batavia Downs presented in joint partnership by the AHDC and the North American Amateur Drivers Association.