Bettors Western had been racing from behind as his form sharpened during his Game Of Claims Series action for $7,500 base-tag horses, but when he went for $15,000 in his series championship on Monday afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, George Napolitano Jr. took him to the front and authored a 1:53.3 victory.
After five $7,500 divisions of the third and final preliminary leg of the Game Of Claims Pacing Series for $7,500 base-tag pacers Monday (March 20) afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, there was only one horse who won twice in the prelims, Believeinthespirit.
With horse racing in Canada currently on hiatus, some Ontario horsepeople have ventured south of the border and have had some luck in recent weeks.
Driver Brett MacDonald, a regular at The Raceway at the Western Fair District, has been doing it and doing it well at Northfield Park – coming off a huge Mares Open Pace victory with Bettor Trix N for New Jersey’s Curtin Anz Stable and trainer Patrick Shepherd. She literally ran the competition off their feet on Saturday night (Feb. 6) as a pair of favourites made breaks going to the quarter mile just as she made the front. She controlled fractions of :26.4, :56.1 and 1:24.3 and used a :29 final frame to win easily in 1:53.3. Bettor Trix N had been a regular upper-class mare on the Ontario circuit for trainer J.R. Plante prior to shipping south in the new year.