Freshman pacers and trotters take center stage at Tioga Downs on Friday in the Geers Stake and Arthur Tompkin Memorial races.
The Geers Stakes featuring two divisions of two-year-old pacing fillies as well as their counterpart colts and geldings.
The morning line favourite 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 favourite is the Nik Drennan entry of Rockme Rollme (Rocknroll 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 two-year-old trotting fillies and two-year-old trotting colts and geldings.
Golden Tricks (Trixton-Golden Goose) is the morning line favourite 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 favourite is Big Weezy (Trixton-Keepsake Hanover) at 2-1. Big Weezy is trained by Richard ‘Nifty’ Norman and driven by David Miller.
The morning line favourite 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 favourite 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 starts at 6:15 p.m.
(Tioga Downs)