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Hightstown, NJ — Emily Bost was in college and knew nothing about harness racing when she answered a newspaper help-wanted ad for a racehorse caretaker at Pocono Downs. Bost, who had previous experience with horses thanks to her years as a competitive rider, fell in love with the Standardbreds. Two decades later, Bost is in her
Emily Bost was in college and knew nothing about harness racing when she answered a newspaper help-wanted ad for a racehorse caretaker.
The only mare in the field, Passionate Promise, showed “the boys” how to get the job done when she won the $47,945 Game Of Claims Trotting Series Championship for $34,247 base-tag horses on Tuesday (April 23) afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.
Dean Eckley made all the right moves heading into Monday (April 22) afternoon’s $23,973 championship of the Game Of Claims Pacing Series for horses base-tagged at $13,699, and reaped the benefits with a 1-2 finish headed by Team Mac and his 1:51.4 victory at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.
The harness racing season . up with the first major Grand Circuit stakes races of the year Monday (April 22) at Yonkers Raceway. Total purses for the evening are just over $1 million And handicapping the four stakes races will be Harnesslink’s own Garnet Barnsdale and former Harnesslink reporter, now handicapper for Pocono Downs, Brian