Driver Tyler Buter held the hot driving hands during another frosty card at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, with $59.20 bomber Smooth Landing taking the $22,973 featured trot as one of six winners on the Saturday afternoon program for the 38-year-old who is fast approaching 4,500 career wins.
They saved the fastest for last on Thursday (June 22) afternoon at Harrah’s Philadelphia, as the Sweet Lou sophomore gelding Lite N Sweet won the $12,600 feature race for his section, the last event carded on the day, in a career best 1:50.4.
Beach Cowgirl returned to the scene of her greatest triumph – Harrah’s Philadelphia, where she won her freshman Pennsylvania Sire Stakes Championship in a world-record 1:50 – and kept her lifetime record undefeated after five starts in her 2023 bow: a 1:50.1 mile on Sunday afternoon (June 4). She competed in one of three $49,783 divisions of the first preliminary of the PA Sire Stakes for three-year-old pacing fillies.
On Sunday afternoon, Harrah’s Philadelphia will present what is one of the best cards so far in 2023 North American harness racing, with three $100,000 Invitationals, action in the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes and Stallion Series for the “glamour division” three-year-old pacing colts.