Second-place finishes in both his Yonkers Trot elimination as well as the final had Double Deceiver more than ready to take a solid field of colts and geldings down the road in one of four Tompkins-Geers divisions for trotting three-year-olds at The Meadowlands Saturday night (July 23).
Eternal Lee tipped off cover out of the final turn and roared through the stretch to score in Thursday’s (July 14) $133,982 Pennsylvania Sires Stake at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows. Luisella captured the other division in the event, known as the Stenographer, for three-year-old trotting fillies.
Manon is four-for-four this season, two of them in the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes, after she won the faster $67,991 division of the third preliminary for three-year-old trotting fillies on Sunday night (June 19) at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono.
Trailing by five lengths as they turned for home, Samosa found the “superspeed” gear and overtook heavy favourite Dreamonhigh to spring the 18-1 upset in the Pennsylvania Sires Stake on Saturday (May 21) at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows.
The Pennsylvania-sired state program returned to Harrah’s Philadelphia on Wednesday (May 11), with two divisions of Sire Stakes and four divisions of Stallion Series competition for three-year-old trotting fillies.