Ben Franklin Free-For-All Pace

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Ben Franklin Free-For-All Pace
Location Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
Inaugurated2007
Race type Harness race for Standardbred pacers
Website Mohegan Sun Pocono racing
Race information
Distance1 mile
(1609 metres or 8 furlongs)
SurfaceDirt, 5/8 mile oval
Track Pocono Downs
Qualification4yo & up
Purse$500,000 (2016)

The Ben Franklin Free-For-All Pace is harness racing stakes race for older Standardbred pacers run annually since 2007 at Pocono Downs in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. [1]

Contents

Historical race events

Boulder Creek set a new track record time of 1:48 3/5 in winning the 2007 inaugural race. [2]

Sweet Lou, the 2011 winner of the Dan Patch Award for Two-Year-Old Male Pacer, won the 2013 Ben Franklin FFA Pace in which he set a new track and World Record for a 5/8 mile track with a time of 1:47 flat. [3]

In 2016, Always B Miki equaled Sweet Lou's World Record time in winning the June 25, 2016 Ben Franklin FFA Pace elimination race. He came back to win the July 2 final in exactly the same World Record time. [4]

Records

Most wins by a driver
Most wins by a trainer
Stakes record

Ben Franklin Free-For-All Pace winners

Year
Winner
Age
Driver
Trainer
Owner
Time
Purse
2016 Always B Miki 5 David Miller Jimmy Takter Bluewood Stable, Roll The Dice Stable, Christina E. Takter1:47 0/0$500,000
2015Luck Be Withyou4George Napolitano, Jr.Chris OakesJohn Craig1:49 0/0$500,000
2014 Sweet Lou 5 Ron Pierce Ron Burke Burke Racing Stable, Weaver Bruscemi LLC, Lawrence Karr, Phillip Collura1:47 0/0$500,000
2013 Foiled Again 9 Yannick Gingras Ron BurkeBurke Racing Stable, Weaver Bruscemi LLC, Lawrence Karr, Phillip Collura1:49 2/5$500,000
2012Betterthancheddar4 George Brennan Casie Coleman Steve Calhoun & West Wins Stable1:48 0/0$500,000
2011We Will See4Ron PierceSam DePintoShannon DePinto, Earl Smith, Jerry Silva1:48 4/5$500,000
2010Vintage Master4 Tim Tetrick Jimmy Takter Brittany Farms & Brian Monieson Trust1:49 0/0$500,000
2009Mister Big6 Brian Sears Virgil Morgan, Jr.Joseph Muscara, Sr.1:48 0/0$500,000
2008Artistic Fella5Tim TetrickSteve ElliottJoseph Alborano1:48 0/0$500,000
2007 Boulder Creek 7Tim TetrickMark SilvaClifford Siegel, Lee Wasserman, John Fodera1:48 3/5$300,000

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