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Super Sunday lived up to the billing on Sunday, May 26 at Harrah's Philadelphia with a trio of $136,986 invitationals highlighting the 16-race card, where Venerate and Twin B Joe Fresh toppled track records in the Maxie Lee and Betsy Ross respectively, while Ruthless Hanover repeated in the Joseph Auger.
Driver Andrew McCarthy and trainer Brett Pelling each captured two of the three $41,096 divisions of the Pennsylvania All-Stars event for three-year-old pacing fillies on Sunday (May 5), as Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania welcomed back both Pennsylvania-sired stakes racing and Sunday evening cards.
CHESTER, PA – The harness racing track record sheet at Harrah’s Philadelphia got a very-early-in-the-season alteration on Thursday afternoon (April 25), as the four-year-old Sebastian K S trotting gelding Benjamin Hanover won powerfully in 1:51.2, knocking three-fifths of a second from the local divisional standard held by Scirocco Rob since 2019. Off a 1:52.3 impressive
Dan Patch Award winner Karl is scheduled to be among the stars making their first appearances of 2024 when The Meadowlands hosts 18 qualifiers on Saturday morning, April 27.
Upsets were the order of the day on Saturday (April 20) afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, with seven $27,397 third and final prelim events of the Bobby Weiss Series for three-year-olds, four for males and three for females.