News Archive

"Sun Stakes Saturday" on tap at Pocono
June 27, 2012
One of North America's richest nights of racing gets underway this weekend at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs, as the track presents their first ever "Sun Stakes Saturday.” All told, $1.5 million in combined purses have attracted the sport's best trotters and pacers to the five-eighths-mile track in
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Horse owners, farms step up to help SRF
June 27, 2012
The offers to help came pouring in when caring people heard of the Standardbred Retirement Foundation's (SRF) plight of losing its farm where it boards horses. The burden of finding a new home large enough for 42 Standardbreds and an office eased as 10 permanent homes were secured, some wit
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PP draw kind to Pocono stakes favorites
June 27, 2012
The fates of the post position draw certainly smiled kindly on the likely favorites in three stakes races headlining a 16-race card with over $1.2 million in purse offerings this Saturday night at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs.   The $500,000 Ben Franklin Pace for older horses, the
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6:35 pm post for Meadowlands Pace card
June 27, 2012
The Meadowlands Pace Night card on Saturday, July 14, will have a special post time of 6:35 p.m. The $800,000 Meadowlands Pace will be the 11th race on the card, with the top 3-year-old pacing colts going to the gate at 10:15 p.m.   The stakes-filled program will also feature the
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Joanne Irving, wife of Dana Irving, dies
June 27, 2012
Joanne Irving, 84, of Boca Raton, Fla., formerly of Oxford, Pa., diedJune 24, 2012, at Boca Raton Regional Hospital. She was the wife of the late trainer/driver Dana L. Irving, who bred and raced the pacing great Red Bow Tie. Born in Caribou, Maine, she was the daughter of the late Albert a
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Brennan takes Betterthancheddar in Franklin
June 27, 2012
George Brennan was in the winner's circle after both eliminations for Saturday's $500,000 Ben Franklin Pace last weekend, once with an old friend and once with a horse he had seen but never driven.   Brennan guided Aracache Hanover to a track-record 1:48.1 win in his Franklin el
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Ranger sweeps FSBOA divisions
June 27, 2012
The leading driver in the 48-year history of harness racing in South Florida, Bruce Ranger has done it again. He summoned all of his skill to sweep both of the $6,000 3-year-old filly events for a second straight weekin the Florida Standardbred Breeders And Owners Association (FSBOA) Sunshine St
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Hurrikane watch issued for Hempt final
June 27, 2012
John McDermott believed that if Hurrikane Kingcole put it all together on the racetrack, people would see a very fast horse. Hurrikane Kingcole had it all together in his elimination for Saturday's $300,000 Max C. Hempt Memorial for 3-year-old pacers at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs. And he was fa
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