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In the middle of a “five race win streak” on Monday (May 10) at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, driver George Napolitano Jr. won with the Explosive Matter gelding Lindys Big Bang in 1:55.2 in taking the faster of two $12,800 claiming handicap trot features. Napolitano Jr., the track’s perennial leading driver who won the last two races here on Sunday, sent Lindys Big Bang to the lead under the wire for the first time, and the pair drew away comfortably late in the opener for the meet’s...

The track maintenance crew at the Hippodrome 3R had the half mile racing oval in prime shape for opening day of the 2021 harness racing season. Mickeymaksomespeed and driver Richard The Black Cat Simard took full advantage of the fast track, sizzling to the lead and never looking back in the Preferred Pace feature. Simard left with Mickeymaksomespeed from post five and had a three-length lead on the field by the opening quarter in :27.2, then led to the half mile in :56.4. Then they opened up a...

The Always B Miki sophomore pacing filly So Irresistible, winner of her first two Bobby Weiss Series preliminary legs only to come up a nose shy in the final prelim, bounced back to winning form with a 1:52.4 victory in the $40,000 Weiss Series Championship for her group Monday afternoon (April 26) at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono. Carrington was quickest away from the gate, with So Irresistible and driver Scott Zeron bypassing a tuck and going on to the lead in the vicinity of the :27.4 quar...

Rich And Miserable earned his fourth consecutive win on Thursday (April 22) when he took the $14,400 featured trot at Harrah’s Philadelphia in 1:53.3. Even though he was sitting in the normally-advantageous second position, Rich And Miserable rated far behind pacesetting Pikachu Hanover, who sailed along on an open lead in remarkable fractions of :27, :55.3 and 1:23.1. Pikachu Hanover could not sustain that energy usage, however, and Rich And Miserable narrowed in through the backstretch and ...

Banzai As overcame post seven and ground out a first-over journey en route to victory in Thursdays (April 15) featured $12,800 event for developing trotters at Harrahs Philadelphia. Banzai As and Tim Tetrick endured a tough first-over journey to beat pacesetting favourite Rose Run Vincent in a lifetime best 1:56. Anette Lorentzon trains the Lionhunter gelding for ACL Stuteri AB. In one of two $11,600 co-features for fast-class trotters, the Explosive Matter gelding Rich And Miserable passed $50...

Rich And Miserable, the 2019 Trotter of the Year at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, moved even closer to $500,000 in career earnings with a 1:54.2 victory in the $11,200 featured event on the Sunday twilight card. Driver Tyler Buter spotted the Explosive Matter gelding third from post 7 before the :28 quarter, then brushed him to command and put up middle splits of :57 and 1:26. Blenheim made a good charge in the stretch, but the :28.2 last split put up by Rich And Miserable was enough to keep...

It looks like motherhood can wait for Pat Matters. The six-year-old mare, who is this season’s fastest trotter thanks to her track-record 1:51.2 mile at Dover Downs on Jan. 5, is being pointed toward a Grand Circuit campaign by owner Patricia Stable and trainer Nifty Norman rather than retirement and a career as a broodmare. “We were of two minds about what to do with her,” Norman said. “There was some thought of retiring her and breeding her, but she’s raced so good this year we’re...