Officials with Dover Downs have announced that track’s signature race, the Progress Pace, has a new name: the Hap Hansen Pace.
The Hap Hansen Pace is named for the late Dover Downs and Brandywine Raceway executive who passed away last year.
This year’s event will be the 20th renewal of the largest purse race in Delaware harness racing. The $400,000 (estimated) Hap Hansen is the highlight of the first full month of the track’s 47th season and is the highlight event of the track’s 2015 ‘Novemberfest of Racing.’
The Hap Hansen features the sport’s leading three-year-olds and is expected to be led by the top two sophomore pacers Wiggle It Jiggleit and Wakizashi Hanover. The top eight money-winning sophomores will meet in the $300,000 estimated final on Monday, November 30.
(Dover Downs)