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Ben Franklin Free-For-All Pace

Ben Franklin Free-For-All Pace
Location Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
Inaugurated 2007
Race type Harness race for Standardbred pacers
Website Mohegan Sun Pocono racing
Race information
Distance 1 mile
(1609 metres or 8 furlongs)
Surface Dirt, 5/8 mile oval
Track Pocono Downs
Qualification 4yo & 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.

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

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.

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.


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