With Parx Racing having astronomical purses for its upcoming Fall Festival, some regional tracks have warned their horsemen to stay home.
The Page McKenney show rolled on in this weekend’s mid-Atlantic stakes action.
Parx Racing’s plan for a $20 million “Fall Festival” – coupled with reduced racing days – has received a generally (but not entirely) warm response.
Claiming activity dipped in June after its huge May increase but still remained strong, in our Claimbox report.
What’s on tap: PA-bred stakes, Top Midlantic-breds, and more.
A pair of added-money events for Pennsylvania-bred three-year-olds — the New Start for fillies and the Danzig — are co-featured tonight at Penn National.
Claiming activity jumped nearly 50 percent in May, in our Claimbox report.
Penn National’s gate crew staged a strike Saturday, protesting what they called unfair labor practices. But, belatedly, the show went on without them.
We’ll be keeping you up to date on the day’s undercard stakes from Penn Mile night here.