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Prominent Pocono barns produced sweeps in the action for each sex of two-year-old pacers during the Wednesday early session at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.

On Tuesday afternoon, Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania featured a pair of $16,000 contests for developing younger pacers.

For those of you that castigate amateur harness racing and continually complain about it, you’re all wrong. Form Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings of yesteryear to the gentlemen and ladies that participate this very day, amateur racing has done wonders for our sport…and countless charitable organizations here in the U.S.A., as well. First off, many of

WILKES-BARRE PA – This looks like an extraordinary year for harness racing three-year-old trotting fillies (following on the heels of Joviality S vs. Jiggy Jog S last season), and many misses who will be racing on the Hambletonian Day card – in the Oaks or elsewhere – were on display Sunday night at Pocono Downs

This looks like an extraordinary year for three-year-old trotting fillies (following on the heels of Joviality S vs. Jiggy Jog S last season). Many misses who will be racing on the Hambletonian Day card – in the Oaks or elsewhere – were on display Sunday night (June 18) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, with the top level races two $70,649 second prelim divisions of the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes for this group.

Pacer Casual Cool and trotter P L Notsonice each beat out some tough opposition to take the $18,500 features on their gait during the Saturday (June 17) afternoon card at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.

Here are the most recent harness racing stories in the USA for Saturday, June 17, 2023. BELIEVER MAKES BELIEVERS at TIOGA DOWNS Believer (Cantab Hall) and driver Ridge Warren won the $10,500 featured trot at Tioga Downs on Saturday (June 17). BJ Lorado (Aaron Byron) took the lead and led to the first quarter in

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Fourteen qualifiers for two-year-olds, four for each sex of pacers and three each on the trotting side, were held at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania Wednesday (June 14). Rain moved in early in the session, with the track being rerated twice and ending up “sloppy” for the majority of the races. 

Owner-trainer Mark Akins last Tuesday claimed both Nasey and Crazycat out of the top-level claiming handicap trots at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, then got immediate returns as he teamed with regular driver Simon Allard to win both of the $15,500 top trots at the northeast Pennsylvania track on Tuesday afternoon (June 13).