The best Pennsylvania-sired two-year-olds gathered at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs on Saturday night for their $1,240,000 Pennsylvania Sire Stakes Championships Night.

Each of the Championship events went for a $260,000 bounty; all consolations for the Sire Stakes divisions went for purses of $50,000.

The track was rated “fast” for the two baby trotter consolations; rain later forced the condition downward to “good.”

Two-Year-Old Filly Pace

Southwind Roulette headed a 1-2-3 sweep for trainer Ron Burke by winning her Sire Stakes Championship for two-year-old pacing fillies. She won in 1:52.3 over "good" going to become the richest pacer in one season of Sire Stakes competition, with $269,248 in her races for Keystone State-sired company.

Southwind Roulette, described as “a very professional filly – she’ll do just what you ask her to do” by driver Yannick Gingras – tucked third early as her Burke stablemates Well Hello There and Kays Dragon Lady argued through the :27 quarter, then was moved to the fore past the latter well before the :56.2 half. Southwind Roulette opened up at the 1:24.3 three-quarters and had a good-sized lead in the stretch, with Kays Dragon Lady closing well late but not really threatening, and Well Hello There salvaging the show.

The daughter of Somebeachsomewhere, owned by Bradley Grant of Milton, Ont. and Howard Taylor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, went 4-3-0-1 in her Sires prelims, the three triumphs in her last three starts, and this victory boosted her money total to the record Sire Stakes mark for pacers, ahead of the $245,615 season sophomore filly Charisma Hanover put together last year. Two-year-old trotting colt Dontyouforgetit holds the all-time one season record in the Pennsylvania program, with $275,553 in 2012.

Pacesetting Macarena Mama was determined late to hold off inside-shooting Safe From Terror to win this section’s consolation in 1:53.1, a personal best. Corey Callahan was sulky-sitting behind the daughter of McArdle for trainer Blake Macintosh, who also co-owns with fellow Ontario connections Susan Hall, Anne Campbell, and Stephen Waldman.