A pair of $16,000 contests for pacers looking to climb up the rungs of the classladder were the highlights of the Tuesday afternoon (July 4) card at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.
Holy Being worked his way to the lead past a :28.1 opening quarter, got soft middle splits of :58 and 1:27, and then was able to finish strongly to win the $15,000 featured trot at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on Monday afternoon in 1:55.3.
Harrah’s Philadelphia hosted its richest racing card of the year on Sunday afternoon (Sept. 4) with $1.3 million on the line in four $252,000 Pennsylvania Sire Stakes Championships for two-year-olds, their complementary $50,000 consolations, and a $40,000 Invitational among many other overnight events.
One of the longest-standing track records at Yonkers Raceway fell on Tuesday night when Gotthegreenlight won the second of two $85,500 New York Sire Stakes divisions for three-year-old pacing fillies in 1:51.3, knocking a fifth of a second off the 1:51.4 mark that Charisma Hanover set back on October 26, 2013. Patsville captured the other section.