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Dandy became a double Pennsylvania Sire Stakes (PASS) winner in his three-year-old trotting colt division, while Double Deceiver showed equal gameness and a faster time as these two won their respective $66,554 sections of the PASS second prelim on Sunday (June 12) at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono.

The Omni Bedford Springs Resort, in the southwestern Pennsylvania city of Bedford, hosted the annual Pennsylvania Fair Awards banquet on Saturday (Jan. 22).

There were two big headlines at Pompano Park on Monday night (Dec. 27) -- a record $100,000-plus Pick-5 handle and another sizzling Hot Art performance in the featured pace.

Two $9,900 divisions in the American Harness Drivers Club (AHDC) year-long series went to post on Sunday (Dec. 12) at Harrah's Philadelphia.

The Pennsylvania Fair Circuit came to the westcentral Pennsylvania town of Indiana, famous as the home of actor Jimmy Stewart, for two days of harness racing, with Thursday devoted to two-year-olds and Friday to three-year-olds.

The pacer Belmont Major N and the trotter Baldaquin both set lifetime marks in winning their respective $15,300 featured events on the Tuesday afternoon program at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono. In a race where most of the field was in front at one point or another, the Art Major gelding Belmont Major N was both the first and last leader, getting shuffled to last before mounting a huge stretch charge that carried him to victory in 1:51.3, winning by 1-1/2 lengths with his own last quarter :27...

The up-and-coming younger performers attracted the Friday spotlight at Harrah’s Philadelphia, ahead of two consecutive cards with Pennsylvania Sire Stakes races for two-year-olds, with three $12,600 events for the various classifications. The Somebeachsomewhere sophomore colt Literl Lad Hanover, a Pennsylvania Sire Stakes winner earlier this year, got back on the winning track with a lifetime mark of 1:50.4 going wire-to-wire against the pacing males. Driver George Napolitano, Jr. put the thr...

Foul weather continues to bedevil the Pennsylvania Fair Circuit, as Sunday’s (July 11) racing for 3-year-olds at this western Pennsylvania track had to be cancelled – the second card of six lost to cancellation so far this year following a wipeout of the 2-year-olds at Silver Springs Ranch on July 1. Among the 2-year-olds Saturday (July 10), the Betting Line–Cloris Hanover colt C-Bet Hanover made his fair circuit debut a memorable one, lowering the Stoneboro record for baby pacing males t...

Macho Martini, one of the two Luc Blais stablemates that earned nominations as Canadas two-year-old colt trotter of the year in 2020, found the wire first on Tuesday in preparation for his sophomore debut. The Muscle Mass colt, a winner of more than $454,000 at two when he captured eight of 11 races and was second in his Ontario Sires Stakes Super Final, took the lead after the quarter in his qualifier on Tuesday (June 1) at Harrahs Philadelphia then blitzed home with a pair of :28.2 quarters t...

Coming off of a layoff of 26 days upon changing over to the Steven Brabrook stable, the Explosive Matter gelding Sortie was dismissed at 26-1 in the $12,800 featured claiming handicap trot on Monday afternoon (May 24) at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, but he roared past embattled leaders late to get the job done in 1:53.3. Favoured Thisisshe made the lead before the :27 quarter but then yielded to Stop Resistin, who got a relatively soft half of :56.2 before opening some ground to a 1:24.2 th...