Harrington Raceway’s 72nd year of live harness racing will resume Monday (August 20) with a 14-race program.
Live racing will be conducted on August 20, 21, 27 and 28 before resumption of a normal Monday through Wednesday schedule for September through October 24.
The feature on this Monday’s program is an $11,000 conditioned pace with 2017 United States Harness Writers Association’s Delaware Valley Chapter Horse of the Meet, Papa Ray (9/1) back in action for former track leading trainer Wayne Givens and last year’s leading driver Victor Kirby.
Papa Ray, a nine-year-old Village Jolt stallion will be making his 225th career start and sports a lifetime bankroll in excess of $635,000 -– impressive for a former $1,800 yearling purchase.
Sophomore Evolution Tour (5/2, Montrell Teague) is the morning line favourite for owner/trainer team Jo Ann Looney-King and Jim King, Jr. The Roddys Bags Again gelding has been uber consistent throughout his career and has never finished worse than third in 18 starts. A field of seven will go postward as the third leg of the early pick four (races 3 through 6).
Delaware Standardbred Breeders Fund (DSBF) stakes action for two-year-olds will get underway on September 17, the same night as the track’s signature event, the $150,000 Bobby Quillen Memorial, featuring some of the sport’s top pacers. Last year’s event was won by Bit Of A Legend N.
Post time nightly is 5:00 p.m.
(Harrington)