Draw is this Monday for Pocono’s Sun Stakes Saturday

WILKES-BARRE, PA – Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania would like to remind harness racing horsemen in charge of top three-year-olds and/or Invitational horses of its $2M+ Sun Stakes Saturday, to be held on Saturday, August 17, and which will be drawn this Monday, August 12.

The Earl Beal Memorial for three-year-old trotting colts and the Max C. Hempt Memorial for their pacing contemporaries will carry a purse of $300,000 for its top division, with $200,000 and $100,000 consolation events also to be raced if filling. Fillies in the Delmonica Hanover for trotters and James Lynch Memorial for pacers will be racing for bounties of $250,000 – $125,000 – $75,000 in the three levels of their competition (no starting fee in $75,000 consolations).

If a Consolation race does not fill or if a horse entered fails to be one of the top 24 money earners in 2024, all nominating and sustaining payments will be refunded provided, however, the horse meets the current qualifying standards for the race meeting.

Horses will be put into the various divisions of their races based upon purse money earned in 2024, which the top eight money winners going for the top purse, the eight next-highest money winners for the second-highest purses, and the third eight going for the other level of purse. The complete conditions for the Sun Stakes event can be found in the “Horsemen” section of the U.S. Trotting Association’s website, under “Stakes Conditions.” The condition sheet for the big Saturday card can also be found in the USTA’s Horsemen’s section.

The Sun Stakes Saturday supercard will be buttressed by the $100,000 Sebastian K S Invitational Trot and the $100,000 Always B Miki Invitational Pace. All horsemen with a top-level free-for-aller should contact Pocono Director Of Racing Rick Kane; Pocono will be racing on Saturday at 1 p.m. and Sunday at 6 p.m., and Kane should be available during those times, and perhaps others, at 570 831 2228, and can answer any other questions you may have about the day’s racing.

From the PHHA / Pocono Downs