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The second preliminary round of the Game Of Claims series for the highest-priced selling horses at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania highlighted the Saturday afternoon sloppy-track action at the northeast Pennsylvania oval.

Millionaire pacer Desperate Man was back in action on Wednesday morning, Feb. 28 at Pocono Downs, making a successful qualifying debut to launch his 2024 season after a winter break stateside.

Driver Tyler Buter held the hot driving hands during another frosty card at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, with $59.20 bomber Smooth Landing taking the $22,973 featured trot as one of six winners on the Saturday afternoon program for the 38-year-old who is fast approaching 4,500 career wins.

Former Horse of the Year and fan favourite Desperate Man is approaching his return to action stateside, where he excelled at the end of his 2023 campaign.

Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania featured a trio of $15,000 events for developing horses on its Monday (Feb. 19) card, the second of the year at the mountain oval.

Blustery winds, cold, and intermittent blowing snow greeted the trotters and pacers as they returned to Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania for Saturday’s 2024 opening card.

This Saturday’s (Feb. 17) opening card of the 2024 harness racing season at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania was drawn on Monday, Feb. 12. There will be twelve races for the trotters and pacers in the curtainraiser, with the first set to go at 1 p.m.

Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania is set to start its 2024 harness racing season as the fields for 11 qualifying races, the first action of the year at the mountain oval, were drawn on Friday, Feb. 9.

Daryl Scott Bier, 57, died suddenly Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, of a heart attack, at his home, in Endicott, N.Y. Mr. Bier, a native of Jessup, Pa., was born July 14, 1966, to Esther and Arthur Bier. A second-generation harness racing horseman, Mr. Bier made his career training and driving Standardbred racehorses beginning in 1987.

Retired trainer/driver Daryl Scott Bier, 57, passed away suddenly of a heart attack on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024 at his home in Endicott, New York.