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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.
George Napolitano Jr. floored the accelerator on Ruthless Hanover from race’s outset in the $100,000 Joseph Auger Memorial Invitational Pace, held on Super Sunday (May 28) at Harrah’s Philadelphia, and the six-year-old gelding responded with a 1:46.3 mile — the fastest ever on a five-eighths-mile track.
On Sunday afternoon, Harrah’s Philadelphia will present what is one of the best cards so far in 2023 North American harness racing, with three $100,000 Invitationals, action in the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes and Stallion Series for the “glamour division” three-year-old pacing colts.
Take All Comers will make his seasonal debut in Sunday’s $100,000 Maxie Lee Memorial Invitational for older trotters at Harrah’s Philadelphia and the five-year-old gelding has already improved from last year in one regard. He will begin the race from a favourable starting point.
The Grand Circuit's weekly overview highlights its upcoming races at Plainridge Park and The Meadowlands.