All 12 races set for November 6, 2010

Pocono Downs will be the 30^th host track and the first new venue since Colonial Downs in 1998 to host the series. The five-eighths mile oval will also be the first to stage all 12 events on a single night.

“Thanks to the efforts of the Pennsylvania Harness Horsemen’s Association and Mohegan Sun’s management team, the opportunity to have all 12 races on one night will be possible in 2010,” said Tom Charters, president and CEO of the Hambletonian Society which owns and services the events. “It’s something we have wanted to do for many years but could not get the optimum dates and tracks in alignment. The management team of Woodbine Entertainment Group has also been an exemplary partner of the series since 1984, and has hosted a Crown event in 24 of our 25 year history.”

Originally conceived and executed in 1984 as a traveling series, the Crown has been hosted by racetracks across North America and raced as single or multiple events, with eight being the maximum number of events any track has staged on a single night. (Breeders Crown)

Since 1998, the Breeders Crown events were divided during the racing season into four races for open horses in late summer and eight for two and three-year-olds in the fall, a format that flourished under a long-term partnership with the Meadowlands in New Jersey and Woodbine, which hosted the events on a rotating basis.

The existing contract ends with the 2009 events, with the open events to be raced closing week at the Meadowlands on Aug. 21 and the freshman and sophomore races at Woodbine on Oct. 24.

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