Dontmesswithles and Tennessee Smooth emerged as the winners in the twin $21,622 featured paces for developing horses getting close to the top of the conditioned ladder during the Tuesday afternoon, May 14 card at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.
The winner of the 2023 MGM Borgata Pacing Series final, Hellabalou returned to the racing wars after a two-month layoff with a victorious effort during the session of qualifiers on Saturday, Feb. 24 at The Meadowlands.
Brue Hanover made up 1-1/2 lengths in the Lightning Lane and scored in 1:49.1, matching the stakes record in Friday’s $69,100 Keystone Classic at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows. Muskateer Hanover also used the Lightning Lane to capture the other division in the $69,100 event for three-year-old colt and gelding pacers.
Beach Cowgirl returned to the scene of her greatest triumph – Harrah’s Philadelphia, where she won her freshman Pennsylvania Sire Stakes Championship in a world-record 1:50 – and kept her lifetime record undefeated after five starts in her 2023 bow: a 1:50.1 mile on Sunday afternoon (June 4). She competed in one of three $49,783 divisions of the first preliminary of the PA Sire Stakes for three-year-old pacing fillies.
World record holder Beach Cowgirl made her first appearance at Harrah's Philadelphia since that extraordinary mile last September, winning her Tuesday (May 23) morning qualifier.