Breeders Crown 2018 will be filled with 12 exciting races on one spectacular night at the Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono Saturday, October 27th. The entire night will be an event to remember, with something for everyone, including a souvenir photo booth with proceeds to benefit the Standardbred Retirement Foundation; a red carpet for fans to make their entrance; food trucks; the Harness Racing Museum and Hall of Fame Gift Shop; Bow River Jewelry; Breeders Crown swag stand, mascot Hambo ...
Tag: Foiled Again
$2.2M in purses and a night of events for Sun Stakes Saturday
2015-07-01Saturday, July 4th, the best of the best will land in Northeast PA for the $2,268,000 Sun Stakes Saturday supercard, featuring the $500,000 Championships for the Ben Franklin FFA pace, the Earl Beal Jr. three-year-old colt trot, and the Max C. Hempt three-year-old colt pace, and the $300,000 James Lynch Championship for three-year-old filly pacers. All four of these events have consolation events, and there are three other Invitationals/Opens on the monster card.
The day begins ...
Sun Stakes Saturday Eliminations June 27th a star-studded night
2015-06-23Most of the stars in 2015’s early-season harness firmament will be gathered at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono this Saturday night, June 27th, with 3YO pacers of both sexes, 3YO trotting colts, and FFA pacers looking to earn spots in the $1.8M “Sun Stakes Saturday” Championship events of their divisional stakes a week from Saturday (July 4). Here’s an early look at each of the four groups of horses competing in this Saturday’s eliminations:
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Richest Standardbred Foiled Again honored with a Breyer Model; Launch party at the Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono
2015-06-16He was named after a cartoon character’s catchphrase, but harness racing world champion Foiled Again has been nothing but serious when it comes to making money. The 11-year-old pacer is the richest Standardbred in history, with purse earnings of $7.01 million following his win last Friday in the Battle of Lake Erie at Northfield Park. With the victory, Foiled Again also became the race’s first three-time champion.
And now this model of consistency on the racetrack has become a real model. ...
The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono Week in Review
2015-05-04April 25-May 1, 2015
We are already a month into the racing season at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, our 50th campaign in case you haven’t heard. This coming week the action will really get spicy with several rounds of Pennsylvania All Stars races and the Van Rose Memorial Pace highlighting the schedule. As for the week gone by, let’s take a look at the top performers and hand out another edition of the Weekly Awards.
PACER OF THE WEEK: SPARKY MARK
One of the ...
Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs Week in Review
2014-09-30September 19-25, 2014
Racing at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs has geared down somewhat in terms of quantity, as the schedule now features three live nights per week. But the quality hasn’t let down a bit, as evidenced by a Saturday night card that included no pacing miles slower than 1:50:2 and no trotting miles slower than 1:54. We even had ...
Bigtown Hero Wins in World-Record Fashion at Pocono
2014-09-22September 20, 2014
Bigtown Hero set a new world record for aged geldings on the pace in a Preferred Handicap victory on Saturday night at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs. The race carried a purse of $25,000.
Leaving from post position #4 in a field of seven ...
Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs Week in Review
2014-07-07June 27-July 3, 2014
When we looked forward to Sun Stakes Saturday at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs in the early months of the season, we expected most of the fireworks to come from the four major stakes races being contested on the card. Yet for all of the unforgettable, world-record performances that characterized those giant-purse ...
Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs Week in Review
2014-06-25June 21-27, 2014
The Weekly Awards will be taking a two-week hiatus so we can focus on all the excitement of the upcoming Sun Stakes Saturday. This past Saturday Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs hosted the eliminations for four huge stakes races: The James M. Lynch Memorlal (3-year-old pacing fillies), The Max C. Hempt Memorial (3-year-old open ...
Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs Week in Review
2013-10-26October 19-25, 2013
The 30th Breeders Crown took place on Saturday at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs, and it was everything a racing fan could have possibly hoped for and more. Events as hyped as this rarely live up to their billing, but, if anything, at the end of the night it seemed like no amount of build-up could have prepared the folks who were at Pocono and the ...