Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania featured $18,500 events for each gait on Saturday (May 13) with the trotting class providing the fastest mile of that gait this season.
Forced to retreat early, defending Pennsylvania champion Fulton rallied to a career-best 1:49.2 victory his fifth straight in Saturday’s (May 6) Pennsylvania Sires Stake at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows.
The sophomore Muscle Hill colt Dyladmar was the most impressive winner in the four $13,500 featured races held at Harrah’s Philadelphia Thursday (April 27) afternoon, winning the section for trotters in 1:53, just four-fifths of a second off the divisional track record held by Googoo Gaagaa.
A :52 front half teed up Combustion for an off-the-pace swing to the lead in the stretch that successfully landed him in front at the finish of a 1:49.3 mile in the third of three divisions of the $299,100 Tall Dark Stranger International Stallion Stakes for freshman pacing colts and geldings.
Annapolis Hanover quarter-poled to the point, then cruised to his fifth straight victory and third in Pennsylvania Sires Stakes competition in Friday’s $160,618 PASS at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows.