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Hightstown, NJ — Emily Bost was in college and knew nothing about harness racing when she answered a newspaper help-wanted ad for a racehorse caretaker at Pocono Downs. Bost, who had previous experience with horses thanks to her years as a competitive rider, fell in love with the Standardbreds. Two decades later, Bost is in her

Emily Bost was in college and knew nothing about harness racing when she answered a newspaper help-wanted ad for a racehorse caretaker.

The only mare in the field, Passionate Promise, showed “the boys” how to get the job done when she won the $47,945 Game Of Claims Trotting Series Championship for $34,247 base-tag horses on Tuesday (April 23) afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. 

Dean Eckley made all the right moves heading into Monday (April 22) afternoon’s $23,973 championship of the Game Of Claims Pacing Series for horses base-tagged at $13,699, and reaped the benefits with a 1-2 finish headed by Team Mac and his 1:51.4 victory at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. 

The harness racing season . up with the first major Grand Circuit stakes races of the year Monday (April 22) at Yonkers Raceway. Total purses for the evening are just over $1 million And handicapping the four stakes races will be Harnesslink’s own Garnet Barnsdale and former Harnesslink reporter, now handicapper for Pocono Downs, Brian

Upsets were the order of the day on Saturday (April 20) afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, with seven $27,397 third and final prelim events of the Bobby Weiss Series for three-year-olds, four for males and three for females.

JL Cruze might be 13 years of age, but he is far from done. Consider what he did on Friday night, April 19 in the featured $17,123 conditioned trot at The Meadowlands and you would draw the same conclusion.

The 2024 edition of the John Brennan Trotting Series got going on Wednesday night (April 10) at MGM Yonkers Raceway with five $33,784 divisions.

Kinesiology was the fastest winner in the six $27,027 divisions of the first prelim of the Bobby Weiss Series on a gorgeous Tuesday (April 9) afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, while Hall Of Fame driver David Miller accounted for three divisions of the initial round for three-year-old trotting fillies. 

Four Sixes, a Six Pack colt, is undefeated in three 2024 starts after recording a 1:55 victory in one of four $27,027 first-round prelims of the Bobby Weiss Series for three-year-old trotting males on as nice a Monday (April 8) afternoon as one could want at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.