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Normally the Weiss Series for sophomore trotting males would be the Sunday evening (April 9) feature during April at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, but that series was rerouted to Saturday night this week to honour the wishes of horsemen who did not want to race on Easter.
Driver Simon Allard won three of the five $20,000 first-round preliminaries in the Bobby Weiss Series for three-year-old male pacers on Saturday afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, while in the two parallel events for trotters driver Tyler Buter piloted both winners home first.
On a warm April afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, driver Jim Pantaleano won three of Tuesday’s (April 4) five $20,000 divisions of the first preliminary leg of the Game Of Claims Trotting Series for $25,000 base-tag horses, including two horses trained by Scott Betts.
A trio of $15,000 conditioned features for developing horses highlighted the first Sunday evening (April 2) card of the season at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.
Favourites won all three $9,000 divisions of the first preliminary round of the Game Of Claims Pacing Series for $10,000 base-priced horses on Monday afternoon (April 3) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.