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Betsy Ross Pace champion Max Contract continued to show her ability, winning the $20,000 Open Handicap distaff pacing feature at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Friday (June 16) in 1:49.3 over a track that had just been upgraded from “sloppy” to “good.”

Lochinvar Art A came to town with a sparkling resume from his native Australia, and the eight-year-old lived up to his lifetime bankroll of $1 million by taking the Saturday night (Feb. 4) co-feature at The Meadowlands, a $27,500 Winners-Over $10,500 Pace.

The inaugural Irish American Celebration Weekend is underway, and there’s one Irishman who hopes the festivities include his personal celebration in The Meadows winners’ circle. That would be Robert Cleary, the West Cork-born trainer, who’ll send out Always B First in Saturday’s (June 5) $149,532 Pennsylvania Sire Stakes for sophomore filly pacers, where she’ll seek her second straight PASS victory. The event, known as the Adios Betty, goes as races 9 and 11, and the Belmont Day card ...

Thebeachiscalling and Always B First took top billing in Wednesdays (May 19) Pennsylvania Sire Stakes for three-year-old pacing fillies at Harrahs Philadelphia with matching 1:50 miles, while Continualou won the remaining division. Thebeachiscalling, who had earned $161,196 without winning in the first 10 starts of her career, built on a winning effort last week to take her $50,645 Sire Stakes event in a new mark for Bella Racing Ltd and trainer Chris Ryder. The daughter of Somebeachsomewhere l...

The Pennsylvania Sire Stakes for three-year-old pacing fillies gets underway Wednesday (May 19) with three divisions at Harrah’s Philadelphia. Among those making seasonal debuts in the event are two stakes-winners from the stable of trainer Ron Burke: Blue Diamond Eyes and Continualou. Blue Diamond Eyes won last year’s Three Diamonds Stakes and was both the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes and Kentucky Sire Stakes champion. Continualou closed her 2020 campaign with a 1:50.2 score in the Matron Stak...