Freshman harness racing pacers and trotters take center stage at Tioga Downs on Friday (August 10) in the Geers Stake and Arthur Tompkins Memorial races.
The Geers Stakes featuring two divisions of 2-year-old pacing fillies as well as their counterpart colts and geldings.
The morning line favorite in the first division of the Geers Stake ($29,500) for pacing fillies is Simone (American Ideal-Ritascape) at 6-5. She is trained and driven by Homer Hochstetler.
The top choice in the second division ($30.000) for pacing fillies is the Mark Harder trained entry of Crazy Cute (Art Major-Crazy Luv) and Money Shot Hanover (Art Major-Marinade). Andy Miller drives Crazy Cute and Tyler Buter drives Money Shot Hanover.
In the first division of the Geers Stake ($25,200) for freshman pacing colts and geldings, Goldberg (Mr Wiggles-Chausettes Blanche) is the morning line choice at 2-1. He is trained by Brenda Teague and driven by Montrell Teague.
In the second division ($25,200) for pacing colts and geldings, the morning line favorite is the Nik Drennan entry of Rockme Rollme (Roacknroll Dance-Promysquous Lady) and Onemilebridge (American Ideal-Aria J) at 2-1. Dave Miller drives Rockme Rollme. Onemilebridge is driven by Andy Miller.
The Arthur Tompkins Memorial races features two divisions of 2-year-old trotting fillies and 2-year-old trotting colts and geldings.
Golden Tracks (Trixton-Golden Goose) is the morning line favorite in the first division ($28,750) of the trotting fillies at 8-5. She is trained and driven by Ake Svanstedt.
In the second division ($29,250) for trotting fillies the morning line favorite is Big Weezy (Trixton-Keepsake Hanover) at 2-1. Big Weezy is trained by R. Nofty Norman and driven by David Miller.
The morning line favorite for the first division ($28,650) of the Arthur Tompkins Memorial for colts and geldings is Chapter Fashion (Chapter Seven-New Hampshire Girl) at 9-5. He is trained by Jim Campbell and driven by Tim Tetrick.
In the second division ($29,150) for colts and gelding the 5-2 morning line favorite is Brady Bunch (Muscle Mass-Miss Fidget). Brady Bunch is trained by Erv Miller and driven by Marcus Miller.
The 13 race card at Tioga Downs on Friday (August 10) starts at 6:15 p.m.
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by John Horne, for Tioga Downs