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It will be a two-way celebration for fans on and off track when Standardbred racing resumes at Fraser Downs on Thursday and Friday nights (March 30 and 31).

Even by his lofty standards, Friday (Nov. 4) at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows was a remarkable day for trainer Ron Burke: seven wins, including a sweep of the day’s $15,400 co-features.

Longshot, Ohio’s champion three-year-old gelding trotter this year, showed Friday that he’s pretty capable in Pennsylvania, too. The son of Long Tom-Tintern blazed to victory for Chris Lems in 1:52.2, fastest ever at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows by a sophomore gelding trotter.

Pennsylvania champion Fulton became the fastest two-year-old ever at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows when he steamed to a 1:49.4 victory in Friday’s $82,500 Keystone Classic. Lyons Stealth sprang a 7-1 upset in the other division of the stakes for freshman colt and gelding pacers.

The Pennsylvania Sires Stake championships for three-year-olds may have been contested in daylight Saturday (Sept. 3) at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows, but several stars definitely shined brightly.

Ourlittlemiracle led by a length turning for home, but then the pocket-sitting Blue Ivy threatened in the Lightning Lane. Blue Ivy and Aaron Merriman thrust, Ourlittlemiracle and Ronnie Wrenn Jr. parried. Who crossed the wire first?

Mad Max Hanover and Night Hawk each needed big points in Saturday’s (August 27) $137,952 Pennsylvania Sires Stake at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows to secure spots in the championship. They got exactly that.

Annapolis Hanover quarter-poled to the point, then cruised to his fifth straight victory — and third in Pennsylvania Sires Stakes competition — in Friday’s $160,618 PASS at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows.

Dismissed at 12-1, Hello Yes Hi used the "Lightning Lane" to outkick the 4-5 favourite, previously undefeated My Little Captain, and spring the upset in Saturday's (Aug. 13) $162,556 Pennsylvania Sires Stake (PASS) at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows. Proud Mary captured the other division in the event, known as the Meadow Cheer, for freshmen pacing fillies.

Austral Hanover, whose connections feared that he would never make it as a racehorse, took another step forward in his development Friday when he captured a division of a $40,000 Arden Downs Grand Circuit stakes at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows.