A trio of $15,000 feature races — two trotting handicaps and a pacing distaff contest, all for horses on the improve — headlined the Tuesday (Nov. 5) card at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.
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Long shots prevail in Pocono features
The top purse offered on Tuesday afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania was $15,000, for two races for developing horses, one race on each gait. They were also “big-money events” in another sense as well, because on a day where 12 of the 14 races brought home winners who paid $6.40 or less, the feature winners paid $42.80 on the pace and $22.80 on the trot.
Pressure Cooker, Staying With Emily win Pocono stakes
On an unseasonably warm Tuesday (Oct. 22) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, Pressure Cooker and Staying With Emily won divisions of the $80,000 Hardie Hanover, the John Simpson Sr. Stakes for 3-year-old pacing fillies, while 2-year-old pacing gelding Dandy Ideal equaled the 1:50.3 local standard for his division.
You Got It an easy winner at Pocono
You Got It raced strongly to a front-end 1:54 victory in the $15,500 featured claiming handicap trot Tuesday afternoon (Oct. 15) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.
Pantaleano sweeps Pocono trot features
A pair of $15,000 trots headed the Tuesday afternoon (Sept. 17) card at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania after the races took a short break for the track’s Oktoberfest celebration. Driver Jim Pantaleano won both co-features with second choices recording their second straight wins, but using decidedly different tactics.
Kakaley hits for six at Pocono
Three $15,000 features for developing youngsters topped the Tuesday (Sept. 10) action at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. Matt Kakaley, Pocono’s leading driver, accounted for the two highlight divisions for males, winning both by 4-1/2 lengths, and he almost won the third, having to settle for six winners at Pocono before heading to Yonkers.
$1.2 million on the line in 3-year-old PASS finals
The shining stars among the 2024 Pennsylvania-sired 3-year-olds, some of whom have been racing against the very best sophomores in North America, will be coming to Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on Monday afternoon (Sept. 9), with all four groups of 3-year-olds sporting $252,000 championship races and $50,000 consolation races.
Sharp winners tally in Pocono features
Three $15,000 featured events topped the bill of fare at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on Tuesday afternoon (Sept. 3).
Carabao A takes 1:48.2 mark in Pocono feature
Carabao A won his fourth race in his last six starts, taking a new mark of 1:48.2 in Tuesday’s (Aug. 27) $17,000 featured pace at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.
The Beaudenblues N, Bourbon Courage win at Pocono
The Beaudenblues N picked up his first U.S. victory in the $15,000 pacing section of Tuesday afternoon’s (Aug. 20) featured class at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania while trotter Bourbon Courage got back into the win column after an absence of almost two years.