Kicking off a busy stretch of Grand Circuit racing in June, a pair of Somebeachsomewhere divisions on Saturday (June 4) at Woodbine Mohawk Park offered a mini preview of next Saturday’s Pepsi North America Cup eliminations.
The “glamour boys,” the three-year-old pacers, were at Pocono for the Memorial Day Monday holiday card, competing in the second preliminaries of their respective events: three divisions of a $138,758 Pennsylvania Sire Stake, and four $20,000 cuts of the complementary Stallion Series.
The sport’s “glamour division”, the three-year-old pacing colts, came to The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono on Sunday (May 15) for three $30,000 divisions of a Pennsylvania All-Stars event, and the most impressive – not necessarily because he had the fastest time, but the way he raced – was the Betting Line colt Night Hawk.
On paper, Pebble Beach and Back Of The Neck looked to be the two qualifiers at The Meadowlands on Saturday (May 14) that would attract the most attention. However, a pair of pacers did their part to steal some of that thunder.
With the first weekend of May in the books, many of harness racing's top performers from 2021 have started to return to the racetrack for the upcoming stakes season or hit the racetrack in racing action.