This year’s Adios victor Bythemissal has been named the 7-5 morning line favourite in Saturday’s (Aug. 13) $300,000 Carl Milstein Memorial at MGM Northfield Park.
Gulf Shores and Pleaseletmeknow will lead the field into next Friday night's (July 1) MGM Grand Messenger Stakes final for three-year-old colt and gelding pacers after taking tonight's (June 24) $40,000 eliminations at Yonkers Raceway.
After three preliminaries of the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes (PaSS) for three-year-old pacing colts, there are no repeat winners, as on Wednesday afternoon at Harrah’s Philadelphia, Layton Hanover and Energetic Hanover emerged victorious in their respective $69,179 divisions (June 8).
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.
In his first start of the season, Groovy Man led at every station and captured the inaugural $100,000 Paul Revere pace on Thursday afternoon as Plainridge Park welcomed back the Grand Circuit.