Pocono Downs

'Sun Stakes Saturday' Card Drawn

The fields have been drawn for the $500,000 Max Hempt Memorial, the $500,000 Ben Franklin Free-For-All, the $500,000 Earl Beal Jr. Memorial and the $300,000 James Lynch Memorial, which will highlight ...

Sun Stakes Saturday Consolations

Officials with Pocono Downs have announced that upon consultation with the Pennsylvania Harness Horsemen’s Association, it has been decided that consolation races for the four events, which comprise t...

Stars Out In Full Force At Pocono

On a dynamic, star-studded Saturday night of eliminations for the $2-million Sun Stakes Saturday Finals at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs a week hence, they saved the best for last.

'Maserati' Revs Up For Hambo Run

An American vacation and a chance meeting which led to marriage has put Swedish trainer Susanne Strandqvist on the road to the 2013 Hambletonian at the Meadowlands Racetrack with Celebrity Maserati.

Check Me Out Returns

Although Maven was a fairly convincing winner in the Armbro Flight Final last Saturday at Mohawk, her nemesis from last year is nearing a return to racing. And if her first qualifier is any indication...

“I Probably Got 40 Phone Calls After The Race”

From the number of phone calls trainer Kevin McDermott received following the Art Rooney Pace, one might have thought his horse, Lonewolf Currier, won the race.

Morrill And Oakes Sweep PASS

Jim Morrill Jr. is the leading driver at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs. Chris Oakes has been the best Pocono-based trainer on the national scene for about a decade now. On Wednesday night at Pocono, the...

Husband & Wife's Hambo Contender?

“We’ve never had one, but we did have one that won his last start before the eliminations and then they sold him. That’s kind of what’s happened to us. You get a good one and then they go to a big sta...

Fillies Impress In Stallion Series

The combination of trainer Virgil Morgan, Jr. and driver David Miller scored a pair of wins with the two fastest times in Stallion Series action for three-year-old trotting fillies Tuesday night at Mo...

‘The Captain’ Sets Sail For Pocono

Fresh off his weekend victory in the $1-million Pepsi North America Cup, Captaintreacherous has set his course for Pocono Downs, as he is one of 22 horses that has been entered to contest eliminations...

Sophomore Trotters In PASS Spotlight

It wasn’t a good night for the favourites in Pennsylvania Sire Stakes action at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs on Sunday night. All three divisions, each of which carried a purse of $79,816, for three-ye...

Takter Trainee Matches World Record

What is it about trainer Jimmy Takter and four-year-old trotting stallions at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs?