WILKES-BARRE PA – The two-year-old Pennsylvania-sired pacers take over the spotlight this weekend at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, with four $30,000 divisions of the Pennsylvania All-Stars event for females scheduled for Saturday and the same number of sections for males carded for Sunday.
Ron Burke, operator of the biggest stable in North American harness racing and a Pennsylvania-based horsemen, has no fewer than twenty-two freshmen entered in the Pocono weekend stakes action – a dozen fillies on Saturday and ten colts on Sunday. Burke will send out the favorite in one division of the fillies and two among the colts.
The baby miss who is the morning line favorite in her cut for Burke is the Sweet Lou – Breakheart Pass filly Shouldabeenatd, who won two of her three preparatory qualifiers at New Jersey’s Gaitway Farms, then was second in a Kindergarten Series leg at The Meadowlands, timed in 1:52.2. Burke also has the second choice in this tenth race contest, Sweet Ace (Sweet Lou – One Ace Too Many), who makes her first purse start on Saturday after winning two Gaitway qualifiers, the faster in 1:54.3.