Harness: PA Harness Week for June 20
Each week DRF Harness will bring you PA Harness Week. This 30-minute show highlights the best of Pennsylvania harness racing as well as what is happening on the national scene.
DRF Harness StaffJun 20, 2015
Each week DRF Harness will bring you PA Harness Week. This 30-minute show highlights the best of Pennsylvania harness racing as well as what is happening on the national scene.
Trainer Malcolm Pierce saddles Finn's Jewel (#3, ML 8-5) in Saturday's eighth race at Woodbine, a 1 1/8-mile allowance optional claimer on turf. Since Jan. 1, 2014, Pierce is winning at a 30 percent clip in allowances, for a return on investment of $2.73.
BLUE VIOLET (#4, 6-1) missed second by a couple of necks when fourth in a tougher Grade 3 last time; back at her home track for Saturday's eighth race at Delaware Park, the Grade 3 Obeah Stakes.
JL Cruze proved on Friday night that his first upset of Father Patrick was no fluke. The 4-year-old showed poise and heart in capturing the third Graduate leg, a $100,000 event at the Meadowlands. Hall of Famer John Campbell swept the Graduates capturing the $100,000 third leg for 4-year-old pacers with Doo Wop Hanover in a world record 2:02 3/5 for the one and one-eighth mile distance.
Group stakes in Brazil and Peru on Sunday could produce runners for Breeders’ Cup races at Keeneland on Oct. 30-31.
A string of record-priced offerings helped produce the highest gross and average sale price in the history of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s June 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age sale.
Download DRF Plus handicapping reports for Saturday's races, including DRF Bets GamePlan, the Positive ROI Report, and Key Race Report.
Jeremey Day's analysis of the Sunday 6/21 card at Balmoral Park.
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When three generations of the Bryant family landed in the winner’s circle after the Bucharest Stakes in February with their Meme Jo, it was one of those life-affirming moments racing regularly bestows on its own. George Bryant, his son, George A. Bryant, and his granddaughter, Lexington Bryant, will be hoping for more of that kind of rush on Sunday, as they celebrate Father’s Day at Lone Star Park.