The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono Week In Review

2016-04-06

April 2-8, 2016
Racing at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono ramped up to three live nights this past week, as Sunday joined the schedule for the first time this year. By next week, we will have reached our four-nights-per-week schedule that will be our standby for the bulk of the meet. In the meantime, the three racing nights this week have given us just enough fodder to hand out 2016’s first edition of the Weekly Awards. Let’s see who takes the initial honors.
PACER OF THE WEEK: ... 

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Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs Week in Review

2013-08-12

August 1-7, 2013
The month of August started out without the sizzling temperatures that are the norm for this time of year in Northeastern Pennsylvania. It’s a good thing then that plenty of heat was generated on the track at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs this past racing week. It’s gets harder and harder to narrow down the very best of the outstanding performances we see ... 

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Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs Week in Review

2013-06-15

June 7-13, 2013
This is the time of year at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs when we move to a schedule of five nights per week, meaning that there are more outstanding performances to sift through when choosing the Weekly Awards. This is also the time of year when it seems like not a week goes by without some sort of assault on either a Pocono track record or even a world record. ... 

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Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs

2012-11-17

2012 Season Review
Well, racing fans, we’ve come to that point in the year where we wrap things up at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs. The season closes out on Wednesday night, November 21 with the 140th racing night of the campaign. After that, MSPD racing goes on hiatus until March of 2013.
Since we ... 

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Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs Week in Review

2012-11-07

2012 Horses of the Year
As we wind down the 2012 racing season at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs, a season which finishes up on Wednesday, November 21, it’s about time to start celebrating some of the outstanding equine performers who have shined for the Pocono faithful this year. In other words, it’s time to honor our horses of the year.
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Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs Week in Review

2012-10-05

September 28-October 4, 2012
Now that we’ve hit the month of October, both the calendar and the cooler temperatures at night remind us that the racing season at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs is now rounding the final turn on its way into the home stretch. Still, the racing action hasn’t let up one bit, and this week has been a prime example, giving us a host of excellent candidates ... 

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Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs Week in Review

2012-08-24

August 17-23, 2012
Each week I hand out the Weekly Awards for the racing at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs, and each week it gets harder and harder to narrow it down to just a few select horses and horsemen. That’s a testament to how competitive the racing has been this season. This week was typically tough to make my selections, but I gave it a shot anyway, knowing that some ... 

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Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs Week in Review

2012-06-03

May 25-31, 2012
As the month of May comes to a close, the action at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs is so massive that it can no longer be contained by four nights of racing per week. Starting in June, Sunday nights will be added to the schedule for the next three months. That means extra action for the Pocono racing fans, and it also means the Weekly Awards stand to get even more ... 

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Mud Pie Hanover Too Tough To Catch in Tuesday Pocono Feature

2012-05-23

May 22, 2012
Mud Pie Hanover led at every pole to score a victory in the featured winners of over $25,000 lifetime pacing event on Tuesday night at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs. The race carried the night’s top purse of $25,000.
Mud Pie Hanover, the 5-2 second choice from the barn of trainer Jason Robinson, ... 

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Grey Ghost and Poltergeist Pace

2011-10-26

 
The Grey Ghosts come to Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs!  
Live harness racing at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs will be strangely eerie on Saturday, October 29th as the harness track in Northeast PA hosts a special “Grey Ghost and Poltergeist Pace” for grey or roan horses. 
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