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The stars of harness racing continue to resurface in qualifying sessions across the continent, with the Saturday (April 16) session at The Meadowla

If Continualou had sneaked a peek to her left while she was charging through the lane Saturday (June 5) at The Meadows, she might have noticed that the horse gaining on her her was her stablemate, Blue Diamond Eyes. But Continualou gave no quarter, edging Blue Diamond Eyes by a nose for her second-straight Pennsylvania Sires Stake win. The $149,532 event for sophomore filly pacers, known as the Adios Betty, was contested over two divisions with Mikala taking the other split. Blue Diamond Eyes circled the field from post 6 for the early lead, but when Continualou quarter-poled to the top for R...

A quartet of $12,600 paces, two for males and two for females, headed the Wednesday (May 26) program at Harrah’s Philadelphia. The faster of the male winners was the American Ideal sophomore colt Ill Drink To That, who made an early move to control the pace and then held off major danger Transparency by 1-1/4 lengths to reduce his mark to 1:51. Dexter Dunn guided the Chris Ryder trainee for Craig Henderson, Lawrence Minowitz, Robert Mondillo and Oompa’s Farm Inc. In the other section for “the boys,” the Always B Miki sophomore Grand Cayman advanced uncovered to make the lead in the la...

Young and developing horses are in abundance in the Mid-Atlantic area, and Harrah’s Philadelphia had $12,600 quad-features for their various divisions on Friday. Kiss The Captain won her second straight start – her previous one came on August 27 of last year – as she paced to a new mark of 1:51.4, with Andrew McCarthy gunning her through wild fractions of :26.1, :54.2, and 1:22, successfully bottoming out the field. Trained by Andrew Harris for A Harris Racing LLC and Martin Budkey, Kiss The Captain is a Captaintreacherous three-quarter sister to Kissme On the Beach – who still holds...

Filly Speaks was all out to do it, but she captured her second-consecutive series win— and fourth overall—in the Ruby Cook Memorial Pace on Wednesday (April 7) at The Meadows. Peep N Weep took a similar narrow victory in the other $12,500 second-leg division of the event for three-year-old pacing fillies. Filly Speaks quarter-poled to the front for Tony Hall and opened a two-length lead past the three-quarters before Oceans Apart began to gain ground. Filly Speaks held off that rival by a nose to score in 1:53.3, matching her career best. Defy The Odds finished third. Scott Betts trains t...