Lunar explored the landscape on the front end and found nary a crater as he pulled of an 11-1 upset in the $25,946 Open Handicap Pace on Friday, Feb. 9 at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows.
Making only his second start in more than 13 months, 10-1 Lunar outkicked 1-9 favourite Chase H Hanover to pull off the upset in the $25,263 Open Handicap Pace on Friday, Jan. 5 at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows.
The 2021 stakes season at The Meadows kicks off with a bang Saturday (May 1), when the track hosts a $153,856 Pennsylvania Sire Stakes for sophomore pacing colts and geldings featuring Southwind Gendry and Summa Cum Laude, a pair of the glamour division’s prospective superstars as well as day-long activities to help fans celebrate the simulcast of the Kentucky Derby following the live card.
In addition to the sire stakes, the card offers a $100,000 Pennsylvania Stallion Series event for three-year-old male pacers. The 13-race live program and the Derby Day festivities begin at the special post time of 11:25 a.m.
The PASS will see a pair of last year’s top freshmen, both from the Ron Burke stable, kick off their sophomore campaigns in the same division, which goes as race six. Southwind Gendry not only won the PASS championship, but he also scored in such other prestigious events as the Matron Stakes and splits of the Bluegrass and the International Stallion Series. The Alwa
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Ronnie Wrenn Jr. had to use Lunar twice, but he was up to the challenge as he stretched his career unbeaten streak to four in Friday’s (April 9) Tom Kirwan Memorial Pace at The Meadows. Manholmes took the other $12,500 second-leg division in the event for three-year-old colts and geldings.
Lunar got away fourth from post seven but didn’t sit there long, moving first over after the leader, Louie. The Sweet Lou-Crescent City gelding wore down the well-meant Louie and defeated him by 1-1/2 lengths in a career-fastest 1:52.1. Twin B Edge finished third. Ron Burke trains Lunar for Burke Racing Stable, Phillip Collura, Knox Services and J&TSilva-Purnel&Libby.