On Sunday afternoon, Harrah’s Philadelphia will present what is one of the best cards so far in 2023 North American harness racing, with three $100,000 Invitationals, action in the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes and Stallion Series for the “glamour division” three-year-old pacing colts.
Take All Comers will make his seasonal debut in Sunday’s $100,000 Maxie Lee Memorial Invitational for older trotters at Harrah’s Philadelphia and the five-year-old gelding has already improved from last year in one regard. He will begin the race from a favourable starting point.
Its Academic trotted the fastest mile over any five-eighths-mile track in North America this year when he won the $20,000 Open Handicap Trot at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Sunday afternoon in 1:51.2.
For the second week in a row, the trotters racing over the home of the "Flying Turns" did just that. On Sunday (May 14), trainer Chris Beaver made his presence felt, tying a world-record performance from last week with Winning Ticket and setting a track and world-record record with Caviar Gold.
Ammo, the Sweet Lou colt who won his division’s Breeders Crown Championship last season, won easily in his 2023 purse debut, taking a $12,600 division of the featured pacing class at Harrah’s Philadelphia in 1:51.2 on Thursday afternoon.