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.
The veteran Explosive Matter gelding Rich And Miserable went directly to command and never looked back, winning Sunday afternoon's (May 7) $20,000 Open Trot at Harrah’s Philadelphia in 1:54.1.
In the richest race of the young season at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, the $50,000 Bobby Weiss Series Championship for three-year-old pacing colts, second choice I Was Tricked downed the previously-unbeaten All Class and held off a pair of longshots in a lifetime best performance.
Rich And Miserable never looked back in winning the $20,000 Open Handicap Trot, the feature as Harrah’s Philadelphia opened its 2023 harness racing season on Sunday afternoon (April 2).