The Pennsylvania Sire Stakes and Stallion Series for three-year-old trotting fillies make their stop at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono during Sunday’s (June 6) twilight card. The series' third preliminary leg consisting of two Sire Stakes divisions in races 10 and 11, and three Stallion Series cuts in races seven, nine, and 12.
The biggest question in race 10 is whether the Donato Hanover filly Anoka Hanover can regain her winning ways. Last year’s Dan Patch Award winner won her seasonal debut at Harrah's Philadelphia while tying the divisional track record in 1:52.3, but then on a sloppy track at The Meadows last Saturday, she never got going into the race and finished back. Todd McCarthy will drive the Noel Daley trainee from post one in a field of seven.
You Ato Dream, also a daughter of Donato Hanover, has won both of her Sire Stakes races so far — at odds of 12-1 and 23-1. The filly, trained and driven by Jeff Gregory, begins from post four.
In race 11, there are all sorts of fillies who earned distinction at two – Pennsylvania Sire Stakes champion Flawless Country (by Southwind Frank, post two, trainer-driver Åke Svanstedt), Canadian star Donna Soprano (Donato Hanover, post six, driver Bob McClure, trainer Luc Blais), Breeders Crown winner Lady Chaos (Cantab Hall, post eight, driver David Miller, trainer Linda Toscano), and Pennsylvania Stallion Series champion Love Muffin (Andover Hall, post six, driver Andy Miller, trainer Julie Miller) — who, remarkably, is going for her third straight Sire Stakes win.
In the three Stallion Series divisions, only Piper Hanover (race nine) has notched two 2021 victories against this type – the only two wins of her career to date – but six other single winners will be looking to raise their profiles with a repeat triumph.
Program pages will be available through the PHHA website.
(PHHA/Pocono)