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The activity at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono is growing every day in anticipation of the track’s 56th year of harness racing, a season which begins on Saturday, Feb. 6.
Horses are already training over the track during set hours every day. Pocono would like horsemen to know that because of the winter weather peaking right around the corner, there will be NO training over the Pocono surface on Tuesday, January 26.
The first qualifiers for the 2021 season at the mountain oval will be held on Monday, Feb. 1 and Tuesday, Feb. 2, with both sessions starting at 10 a.m. (EST). Horsemen should declare entries for the Monday qualifiers by Saturday at 11 a.m., and for the Tuesday qualifiers by Monday at 11 a.m.
The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono
WILKES-BARRE PA - Horsemen should note that the conditions for two popular early-season harness racing series at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, the Game Of Claims Series and the Bobby Weiss Series, have been posted online at the Pennsylvania Harness Horsemen s Association s website, www.phha.org.
In February The Game Of Claims will have four segments which will feature three weeks of preliminary action for pacing horses entered at a base price of $7500, $10,000, $15,000, and $25,000, with prelim purses equal to the first-round base price, and the claiming price going up to a degree in each subsequent prelim. The top pointwinners in the three preliminary legs will go for a final (out of which there will be no claiming) of double their base claiming price, with those races to be held on Saturday, March 6 and Sunday, March 7. On Mondays in March, $15,000 claiming trotters will race in a series of the same format.
Horsemen should note that the conditions for two popular early-season series at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, the Game Of Claims Series and the Bobby Weiss Series, have been posted online at the Pennsylvania Harness Horsemen’s Association’s website, www.phha.org.
In February The Game Of Claims will have four segments which will feature three weeks of preliminary action for pacing horses entered at a base price of $7,500, $10,000, $15,000, and $25,000, with prelim purses equal to the first-round base price and the claiming price going up to a degree in each subsequent prelim. The top point-winners in the three preliminary legs will go for a final (out of which there will be no claiming) of double their base claiming price, with those races to be held on Saturday, March 6 and Sunday, March 7. On Mondays in March, $15,000 claiming trotters will race in a series of the same format.