After shaking off a spate of bad luck and getting his first win a week ago, Designer Drink can be the toast of the town this weekend by making it a double in the $252,000 Pennsylvania Sire Stakes championship for two-year-old male trotters at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Sunday (Sept. 4)
Despite earlier thunderstorms that left the racetrack "sloppy" with a two-second allowance, the young trotters competing in the third and final leg of the Future Stars Series at the Hippodrome 3R plowed forward.
A foundation broodmare in the Standardbred industry is usually a mare that produces numerous stakes winners year after year. And fortunately for Quebec owner, breeder and trainer Denitza Petrova, she has one.
Young and burgeoning trotting talent will hit the track at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Saturday night (Aug. 20) with three eliminations for the William Wellwood Memorial and two elims for its filly companion, the Peaceful Way.