Miki and Minnie in PA Sire Stake Saturday at Pocono
At 0h02, on June 20, 2025 • By PHHA, Pocono Downs
Miki And Minnie, last season’s Dan Patch Award-winning two-year-old pacing filly and coming off a win in last Saturday’s $288,600 Fan Hanover Final at Woodbine Mohawk that earned the #3 ranking in the season’s first Top Ten poll, will be racing on Saturday afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. She is set to go in one of two divisions of the second preliminary leg of her group’s Pennsylvania Sire Stakes action, which combined with six divisions of Pennsylvania Stallion Series racing that day will find the fillies racing for an aggregate $222,240.
Miki And Minnie, a daughter of Always B Miki racing for Craig Henderson, Robert Mondillo, and Lawrence Minowitz (thus accounting for her name), came on strongly towards the end of the season in 2024, winning the Breeders Crown and Three Diamonds to earn her Dan Patch championship. With victories in her first three starts of 2025, the newly-minted millionaire ($1,006,161), who took a mark of 1:48.3 in the Fan Hanover final, will be starting from the rail on Saturday at Pocono, with Dexter Dunn set to drive her for trainer Chris Ryder.
Her major opposition appears to be Rodeo Drive Deo, who came roaring home from eighth in the Fan Hanover to finish second, beaten only three-quarters of a length. David Miller will be in the sulky for trainer Ron Burke as the daughter of Captaintreacherous begins from post five in a field of seven.
This division of the Sire Stakes is slotted in race eight, which will be part of a Pick-5 wager beginning in race five that has a $10,000 guarantee set on it after a double carryover.
With hot weather predicted for Saturday, many of the races on Saturday could see the 1:50 barrier threatened many times, given the quantity of quality horses appearing throughout the card. First race on the 15-race program is set for 1 p.m.
