The opening week's stakes action at The Red Mile will conclude on Saturday (Oct. 1) with a slew of eight sophomore splits of Bluegrass action on the 13-race card.
Pretender and Fashion Schooner were the winners in the first edition $275,000 finals of the New Jersey Classic for “A” level New Jersey-sired trotters on Friday night (Sept. 9) at The Meadowlands.
After winning New Jersey Sire Stakes championships earlier this year at The Meadowlands, three-year-olds Fashion Schooner and Pretender will return to The Big M on Friday hoping to add to their collections of trophies for state-sired trotters.
They turned for home in a $74,435 division of a Pennsylvania Sire Stake (PaSS) Sunday at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, and the two favourites were battling – the one with the driver with 14 lifetime wins in North America on the lead, the one with the driver with 12,982 wins coming on.
Bythemissal was able to get the best of Beach Glass in the 2022 Delvin Miller Adios three weeks back, but Beach Glass got his revenge in the 2022 Max C. Hempt Memorial Final on Saturday (Aug. 20) at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono as part of the star-studded Sun Stakes Saturday card.