A trio of $13,500 contests for up-and-coming younger horses were at the top of the bill of fare at Harrah’s Philadelphia on a warm Thursday afternoon on April 20.
Ake Svanstedt pupil Special Way defended her Kentucky Championship crown on the high stage to decimate her competition in the third of three divisions for the $354,000 Norman Woolworth Memorial Bluegrass Stakes for freshman trotting fillies on Friday afternoon (Sept. 30) at The Red Mile.
The last of the week’s stakes action for freshman Standardbreds is set to go to post on the Friday (Sept. 30) card at The Red Mile with pacing colts and geldings and trotting fillies in competition in a total of six Bluegrass Stakes divisions.
Sire Stay Hungry swept the two third-preliminary round divisions of the $162,620 Pennsylvania Sire Stakes (PASS) for two-year-old pacing colts at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono on Sunday night (Aug. 7), and both divisions were clocked in 1:51.3 over "sloppy" going.