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When trainer Mitch York bought Annapolis Hanover as a yearling at the 2021 Standardbred Horse Sale, he hoped the pacer would develop into a top horse on the Pennsylvania fair circuit. It didn’t work out that way, but York isn’t about to complain.
The Omni Bedford Springs Resort, in the southwestern Pennsylvania city of Bedford, hosted the annual Pennsylvania Fair Awards banquet on Saturday (Jan. 22).
The 2021 Pennsylvania Fair Circuit got underway with a roar at the Big Butler Fair in Butler, Pa., as the all-age track trotting record of 2:03, set by Dauphin Hanover 27 years ago, was reduced to 2:01.1. First to lay waste to the record books on Wednesday (June 30), when the three-year-olds raced, was Killer Instinct, who won his Sire Stakes division for driver Brian Zendt, trainer Bob Rougeaux III, and the partnership of Brocious Racing Stable Inc. and Lone Wolf Stable. The Southwind Frank gelding won nine times as a two-year-old, set a divisional track record at Bloomsburg, and recently we...