Pocono: Top older pacers arrive Saturday for Van Rose Memorial
The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono will offer the $100,000 Van Rose Memorial Invitational Pace as the featured part of the evening portion of a Kentucky Derby Day doubleheader this Saturday, with 14 entrants competing in split $50,000 divisions.
The credentials these horses are bringing to Pocono on Saturday are simply outstanding. Headlined by $532,000 Levy Memorial winner Keystone Velocity, the field has combined lifetime earnings of $13,994,142.
Here are the fields for the two Rose divisions:
5th race -- $50,000 Rose Pace division – 1. Boston Red Rocks; 2. Rodeo Romeo; 3. Long Live Rock; 4. Wakizashi Hanover; 5. Always At My Place; 6. Dr J Hanover; 7. Barimah A.
10th race -- $50,000 Rose Pace division – 1. Keystone Velocity; 2. Rockin Ron; 3. Super Imposed N; 4. Mach It So; 5. Bettor Memories; 6. Christen Me N; 7. Rockeyed Optimist.
The Saturday evening card at Pocono will also feature the four $30,000 Championships of the Bobby Weiss Series, with the top point winners in the four preliminaries earning their way to their respective finals. Here’s a brief overview of those races:
The features on the afternoon card will be $15,000 Weiss Consolations for both groups of trotters (the pacing events did not fill). These races will go as the Late Double on the 10-race card that is scheduled to start at 11 a.m.; after a break for the Derby, the nighttime equine fireworks will be beginning at 7:30 p.m.
-edited release (PHHA/Pocono)