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.
The Pennsylvania Sires Stake season for three-year-olds ends with a flourish Saturday (Sept. 3) at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows four $253,000 championships, four $50,000 consolations and a host of intriguing story lines.
Driver Tim Tetrick swept the two divisions of the $135,032 third preliminary for the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes (PASS) for three-year-old pacing fillies during the Sunday (June 26) card at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, taking both sections with daughters of Captaintreacherous.
Defending Pennsylvania champion Captain Cowgirl poured it on through a :55.3 back half en route to a sparking 1:49.3 victory in Saturday’s $133,830 PA Sires Stake at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows.
The three-year-old pacing filly Niki Hill, last year’s Dan Patch divisional champion, was a strong-finishing winner in her qualifier on Tuesday morning (May 10) at Harrah’s Philadelphia, with O'Brien and Dan Patch divisional champion Lyons Sentinel a rapidly-closing second in her first trip behind the starting gate this year in another qualifier.