By: Jerry Connors, Jr. 
​CHESTER PA – A rare Sunday afternoon feature trot highlighted the program at Harrah’s Philadelphia, a track known for its “Trottin’ Thursdays” – but since this coming Thursday is Thanksgiving and a dark day, the top diamondgaiters went for $16,000 on this card.
 
The feature winner was the well-traveled Muscle Hill gelding Little Expensive, an “Orange Crush” performer for Team Miller: Driver Tyler Miller sent him to the lead, yielded to the favorite and had a nice journey in the golden chair, then came up the inside to hold off the fast-closing Lefties Righies by 1½ lengths in 1:53.1. Tyler’s mother Julie trains Little Expensive, who also has won at Cumberland Run, Oak Grove, Lexington, and The Meadowlands in 2025, and his father Andy (as Andy Miller Stable Inc.) co-owns him with Jean Goehlen and VIP Internet Stable LLC.
 
The richest pace on the card offered a $12,000 bounty, and it was taken by the Control The Moment three-year-old gelding Shining Moment in 1:52.4. Shining Moment had not shown much gate speed lately and was saddled with post eight, but driver Mark Herschberger thought the front-end was the best place for him, and he was proven correct – despite being five-wide into the fist turn, three-wide to the 3/16, and two-wide to the 3/8, the pacer finally made the top, and did not relinquish his lead when favored Touchback came at him late, prevailing by a neck for trainer Bill “Moon” Mullin and owner Howard Taylor.
 
Fast-class pacers produced a rare 1:50f mile in late November in an $11,000 contest, as Belmont Shadow N, an altered son of Betterthancheddar, cleared on a backstretch move then stayed 1¼ lengths ahead of chalk Ignatius N in 1:50 flat. Mark Herschberger also had the winning steer behind this horse, now a winner of two of his last three for trainer Nifty Norman, whose Enzed Racing Stable Inc. shares ownership with the well-known horsemen Archie McNeil and Bill O’Donnell.
 
Simon Allard and meet leader Tim Tetrick both had three winners on the day and eight for the three-day week at Philly.
 
Harrah’s Philadelphia will now be dark for Thanksgiving Thursday and Friday so that all of the extended Philly family can enjoy their Thanksgiving holiday. Racing at Philly will resume on Sunday, November 30 (that card drawn Tuesday), with the $12,500 Championship of the popular series for $10,000 claiming pacers sharing the spotlight with a carryover into the fifth race Pick-5 wager. Free Philly program pages will be available at www.phha.org.

By: Jerry Connors, Jr. 
WILKES-BARRE PA – Tyler Buter drove three of the last four winners on the final 2025 card of racing  at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on Saturday afternoon, raising his seasonal total at the mountain oval to exactly 300 while capturing his first local victory crown.
 
The 40-year-old, seventh in North America in wins this year, brought home Nob Hill Flash ($10.40) in race eleven, then won both halves of the late double to reach 300. Oakwood Heymiki IR was expected to win at 1-20 and did, and then Buter overcame the outside post with Seven Reps ($10.80) in the finale, closing off cover to bring a fine season to a fine ending for his pilot.
 
Seven Reps is trained by Ron Burke, and the ubiquitous trainer saw his final seasonal win total locally get to 113 as he won his fourth straight crown and fifth in the last six years. Pocono also keeps historical data on UDR leaders, and it’s no surprise that Jason Bartlett, having the year of his career, would take that title, “hitting” .401 with enough starts (one per card) to take his first local title. Pocono’s “B-Boys” (Buter, Burke, Bartlett) certainly had a season to remember at the northeast Pennsylvania track.
 
The top races on closing day at Pocono focused on performers looking destined to find their way to the top national classes in a short time. The biggest purse of the day, $17,500, was captured by the Bar Hopping sophomore filly Bay Breeze Hanover, who already has experience with state-level stakes horses, and may be headed to richer opportunities after battling gamely on a dank day (“good” +1) to hold off Pocono Pike-scooting favorite Kovu AS by a head in 1:57. A winner of three of her last four including a Liberty Bell stake, Bay Breeze Hanover was handled by Colin Kelly for trainer Maria Alvarez and the partnership of Friendship Stables LLC and Rotiboy4Eva Racing Stable.
 
Pacers a rung lower on the classladder contested $16,000 in a race taken by the Always B Miki gelding Chief Bogo, like trotting feature winner “Bay Breeze” victorious in three of his last four races. The Chief came up the inside from a pocket journey to overhaul pacesetting Captain Luffy by three parts of a length in 1:52.3 for driver Anthony Napolitano, trainer Nicholas Devita, and owner Eric Prevost.
 
Pocono bettors had a host of good chances to make a little holiday money, as there were carryovers in three races, and since it was the last day, mandatory payouts on five exotic wagers (including one with a carryover). Well-regarded horses won early, but then the money got spread around by lightly-regarded horses winning, including Raven Banner N ($62.00) in the fifty-sixth race a winner paid $50 or more at Pocono this year.

By: Jerry Connors, Jr. 
CHESTER PA – No horse won in both the first and second preliminary leg of the pacing series for $10,000-valued horses at Harrah’s Philadelphia, but in Friday’s third and last prtelim three horses added a second series win to their resume and established themselves as big contenders for the $12,500 Series Championship on Sunday November 30.
 
Fastest winner in Friday’s five $8000 races was Stretch The Line, who moved over to the Kevin Reynolds Jr. barn after a claim and parlayed a pocket trip into a 1:51.1 victory, coming his last quarter in :27.2 for driver Ridge Warren. The other horses with two series wins are Real Lucky N, making it two straight and five in his last seven as he moved to the Bob Belcher barn and won in 1:52.1 for driver George Napolitano Jr., and Just Bet It All, switching into the barn of Jamie Vance after a claim and then winning in 1:53.1 with Corey Callahan driving.
 
Also notching a series win Friday were Your Brother (driver Tim Tetrick) in 1:53.2 in his series debut, and Squadron Seelster, driven by Jack Pelling to a 1:53.3 win. Surprisingly, with the big money coming up (there were also be as many $10,000 consolations as fill), there was only one horse claimed all day, and he did not win.
 
Both of the features for distaff pacers were driven by Simon Allard, who had four visits to Victory Lane Friday and has guided 23 winners already in the month in November. In a $12,000 contest for developing horses, Neil’s Diamond had her many backers singing Sweet Caroline as the sophomore daughter of In The Arsenal took her third win in her last five outings, defeating Swift Sarabi by three parts of a length in 1:53.1 for trainer Jeffrey Smith and the partnership of Joseph Jannuzzelli and Steven and Joseph Williams.
 
In an $11,000 fast-class pace, Allard sat in with the longest shot on the board, the Betterthancheddar mare Cheesey Lady, then found a seam on the far turn and charged home to catch Spicy Story by three-quarters of a length while equaling her lifetime mark of 1:52.3. Adrian Wisher trains and owns the winner, who paid $40.60 for a win deuce.
 
Harrah’s Philly will have live racing on Sunday at 12:40, with a rare Sunday trotting feature, a $16,000 fast-class contest. Philly will then be dark on Thanksgiving Thursday and Friday, and will reopen on Sunday, November 30 (draw Tuesday), with the big races in the claiming series set to go on that day. Free Philly program pages are or will be available at www.phha.org.

By: Jerry Connors, Jr. 
CHESTER PA – They were three-across the track at the finish of the $13,500 conditioned trot for developing horses Thursday afternoon at Harrah’s Philadelphia, with the Greenshoe three-year-old gelding Hey Porter taking advantage of the perfect trip to catch determined pacesetter Moni Buys Happynes by a neck while taking a new mark of 1:55.
 
Tim Tetrick, who drove four winners before heading to Dover for twilight action, got the winner away in the pocket behind the filly Moni Buys Happynes, who laid down fractions of :27.4, :57.3, and 1:26.3, by the third station having Clear For Landing, who had won four of his last six, up raw to challenge. The leader withstood the outside pressure, but Hey Porter still had a relatively-full tank inside of her, and he prevailed by a neck, with Clear For Landing only another half-length back.
 
Hey Porter had been winless in 2025, though he had eight board finishes to his credit while racing Pennsylvania and Midwest stakes company. Here he made the seasonal breakthrough for trainer Jeff Cullipher and Pollack Racing LLC.
 
There were also two $12,000 trots for horses just below the feature level. The quicker split went to the Googoo Gaagaa three-year-old gelding Yardbird, who has now won two of three recent races since putting on the trotting hopples not long ago. Here he grinded uncovered from midbackstretch and worked by pacesetting DW’s Lady Diva by a length in 1:59. Patrick Ryder did the sulkysitting behind the winner of four of his last eight starts for trainer Jim Groff, also co-owner with Jeff Dorn.
 
The other division went to the Cantab Hall sophomore colt Hatfield, winning his second start for connections, owner P T Stable and trainer Bob Belcher. Hatfield was sent to the lead by George Napolitano Jr. and held his advantage throughout in 1:59.1, with favored Entertain Me again having just a little too far to come and being 1¼ lengths behind the winner but winning a three-horse picture for place.
 
In the $11,000 trot for fast-class horses, Benjamin Hanover, the heavy favorite, set fractions of :28.3, :56.2, and 1:25, then went on to ward off a sturdy stretch bid by the 39-1 three-year-old Scudo Hanover by a neck in 1:53. Tim Tetrick, the meet’s leading driver, was in the sulky behind Benjamin Hanover, an altered son of Sebastian K S who is trained by Scott Di Domenico for owner Angela Cornell.
 
Harrah’s races Friday at 12:25, with the third and final preliminary of the popular series for $10,000 pacers going in five $8000 divisions – with no horse able to take wins in the first two legs . There will be Sunday racing at 12:40, and then Philly will be dark on Thanksgiving Thursday and Friday, being back in action on Sunday, November 30 – and featuring the $12,500 Championship of the series for claimers.
 
Free Philly program pages are or will be available at www.phha.org.

By: Jerry Connors, Jr. 
WILKES-BARRE PA – The Andover Hall gelding Choco Charlie, after three seconds and three thirds in his last six starts, found a great time to regain his winning ways, taking the $20,000 Winter Is Coming Trotting Series Championship at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on the next-to-last card of the 2025 year.
 
George Napolitano Jr., who tied with meet leader Tyler Buter by notching three driving victories on the day, moved the Jill Roland trainee, owned by Bernard O’Brien,  outside raw nearing turn two and went after pacesetting favorite Tuis Angel, a prelim winner last week who controlled the stick with two moves after early fractions of :28 and :58.3. Choco Charlie, second then third in his series prelims, made a steady advance on the leader down the backstretch and went right up to the pacesetter just after the 1:27.3 three-quarters, with One After Nine, the only doubler in the WICTS in the prelims, sitting well-placed in the two-hole.
 
Going around the final bend, however, One After Nine fumbled and bothered half the rest of the field, leaving the big battle to the first-over and the leader, and Choco Charlie proved the stronger of the two in the drive to the wire, winning in 1:56.1 with his own back half in :56.4, excellent speed on the cold day.
 
The $16,000 co-feature trot also went to a first-over horse on a day when the speed did not hold up well, as the Trixton sophomore gelding Tequila Talking AS pulled away after a grinding challenge to stop the clock in 1:56.4. Anette Lorentzon conditions the winner for ACL Stuteri AB.
 
Saturday’s 1 p.m. card will be the final program of the season at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, and in addition to excellent racing with up-and-coming horses in the featured spots, there will be a smorgasbord of excellent wagering opportunities. The moneymaking opportunities will start in the first race, where there will be a carryover into the day’s initial Pick 4 wager.
 
Then, because it is the last card of the season, there can be no carryovers at day’s end, so the five bets that usually feature the carryover possibility are MUST-WIN bets on Saturday. They are the Pick 5 (starts race five, ends race nine), Pick 3 (starts race nine, ends race eleven), Pick 4 (starts race ten, ends race fourteen), Superfecta (race thirteen), and High 5 (race fourteen).
 
Free Pocono program pages are or will be available at www.phha.org.

By: Jerry Connors, Jr. 
WILKES-BARRE PA – The Monday afternoon features at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on a chilly day proved exciting contests, each decided by a neck. Two of the trio of features were won by the favorite, while the third winner paid $106.20 – while being driver by meet leader Tyler Buter.
 
The $20,000 Winter Is Coming Pacing Series Championship had its major players in line early – favored Boston Rocks, Big Bang Bang, Lyons Music, and Points North were already 1-2-3-4 before the :27 quarter. Points North was up into uncovered position challenging the leader by the :56 half and continued the fight to and past a 1:23.3 three-quarters.
 
In the stretch, it appeared that Big Bang Bang would have the best chance to catch the leader via the Pocono Pike – Points North had dropped back slightly, while Lyons Music was moved by Tyler Buter into a blindswitch position, with no immediate path to gain. Big Bang Bang was commencing a rally when he went offstride midstretch and was taken inside the pylons; Buter shot Lyons Music to the left of the leader in the suddenly vacant space, and the pacer hit his best gear quickly, outsprinting the chalk in the last 100 yards; Points North was only three parts of a length back at the wire after a brave effort.
 
Lyons Music, an altered son of A Rocknroll Dance, was third in his only Winter Is Coming start; he had two recent wins, but both were at the track’s lowest conditioned level. But he was on song for a big mile in his Championship for trainer Susan Marshall, co-owner with John Marshall. (And an interesting fact: Lyons Music was Buter’s third winner at Pocono to pay $100+ in 2025; no other sulkysitter has more than one.)
 
Three Times Bettor went one more than her name by winning her fourth straight race, a $22,000 fast-class handicap pace for females in 1:51.3. Coming off a sweep of the Kentucky stakes program at Cumberland Run, the sophomore Bettor’s Delight miss went first-over from the half, advancing while her pacing her own third quarter in :26.4, then swept to the lead early in the stretch. But a battle with another distaff who likes to win, Louisville GB (14-for-27 over the last two years), with the latter having the advantage of a cover trip, saw Three Times Bettor keep digging to win for Team Pelling (driver Jack, trainer/father Brett) and owner Thaddeus Wier.
 
In a $16,000 trot for developing horses, the Bar Hopping three-year-old gelding Onemore Volo won for the second time in his last three outings, gradually working to the lead into turn two, then holding off a long, game first-over bid by Beersnsunshine Deo in 1:55.4. Braxten Boyd was the sulkysitter for trainer John Butenschoen, Andray Farm, and David Miller (a resident of Florida, not the one soon to move to Ohio).
 
Buter and Matt Kakaley both had three winners on the card.
 
The Tuesday card will be the next-to-last presentation of 2025 at Pocono, and it will feature the $20,000 Winter Is Coming Trotting Series Championship, as well as two carryovers: into the fifth race Pick 5 wager and into the last race High 5.. The season will then come to a close on Saturday, November 22, and all bets that are usually “carryovers” will go into a MUST-WIN situation after the last time they are offered that day. Free Pocono program pages are or will be available at www.phha.org.

By: Jerry Connors, Jr. 
CHESTER PA – Hall of Fame driver David Miller, in his final start as an “East Coast regular” before moving back to Ohio, made a cameo visit to Harrah’s Philadelphia a successful farewell as he guided the Cattlewash sophomore gelding Tom Horn to his sixth straight victory in a $11,000 pace Sunday afternoon.
 
Though heavily favored off the long win streak, Tom Horn had to work very hard to earn the success in 1:51.4 for trainer Ron Burke and the partnership of Burke Racing Stable Inc., W Donovan, J&T Silva- Purnel & Libby and his driver. The three-year-old left for the pocket behind Divine Right in a 27.4 quarter, wound up third as Delray Beach moved in front near the :56.4 half, then launched an uncovered move later in the backstretch towards a 1:24.1 three-quarters.
 
Delray Beach proved resilient on the lead, and Divine Right made his presence felt up the inside, but Tom Horn dug in and prevailed by a half-length over Delray Beach, with Divine Right just another neck back in third.
 
Miller returns to the Buckeye State after making Tom Horn his 14,818th winner (fifth all-time, behind Palone, Morgan, Merriman, and Filion), and with a money total of $298,789,894, which should grow and surpass John Campbell’s $299.892.141 record sometime nearing spring.
 
Top purses of the day were $12,000, offered to two divisions of developing younger pacing males, with both races timed in 1:54. Pacesetting Tonto Returns made his lead stand up late against favored first-over War No More, who finished a length behind the winner, as the triumphant Fort Knox gelding took his fourth victory in succession for driver Simon Allard, trainer Per Engblom, and the partnership of Evans Nation, Engblom Stable LLC, and Hickory Hollow Stables.
 
RJs Red Devil, a recent winner in a $150,000 Massachusetts stakes finale, also stopped the timer in 1:54, coming first-up and still leaving Twin B Fresh Bet, the horse who trailed the winner’s cover, 1¼ lengths back. Tim Tetrick was in the sulky for trainer Travis Alexander and Fiddler’s Creek Stables LLC.
 
The winning drivers in the biggest purse races also had the only multiple win days. The meet leader, Tim Tetrick, had three successes, including a 1:51.1 victory with Jack’s Shadow N that stood as the fastest time of the day, and Simon Allard visited the winners circle twice.
 
Racing at Harrah’s Philadelphia will follow its regular fall schedule this coming week: Thursday and Friday at 12:25 and Sunday at 12:40. “Trottin’ Thursday”’s card will feature a carryover into the fifth race Pick 5 wager; Friday’s program will find the last chance for claiming pacers to make their way into their series championship, with multiple divisions (and some claiming) likely. Philly will be dark for live racing on Thanksgiving Thursday and Friday (November 27 and 28), then will resume on Sunday, November 30, the day of the $12,500 claiming series Championship.
 
Free Philly program pages are or will be available at www.phha.org.

By: Jerry Connors, Jr. 
WILKES-BARRE PA – An invader from Kentucky, Bank On Me, had to trot his last half in :55.2 uncovered, but the Chapter Seven three-year-old gelding was up to the challenge and recorded a 1:55 victory in the $17,500 feature on Saturday afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania. The speedy finish came on a fairly-warm-for-Pocono-in-November day that allowed for fast halves and quarters – usually off the pace, but occasionally coming from speed duels.
 
Bank On Me was moved raw from midpack at the half by driver Ridge Warren and never took a backward step, wearing down pacesetting Chuckthemillionair by a neck. Nifty Norman assumed local handling upon the filly’s travel northeast as she won impressively for Pinske Stables, Enzed Racing Stable Inc., and Lizanne Waples.
 
Perhaps the most impressive mile of the day was turned in by another trotter, the Quebec-bred Wheeling N Dealin gelding Kinnder Thinktwice. “Kinnder” followed frontstepper Hand Dover Dan then motored home in :55.2 to go by the leader by 1¼ lengths in 1:52.2, equaling his mark in mid-November. Ridge Warren also had the steer behind Kinnder Thinktwice, who is co-owned by trainer Susan Marshall with John Marshall.
 
Top purse on the pace on Saturday was $16,500, offered as was the feature trot for developing horses. In it, the Tom Hill gelding Moneyhill GB remained undefeated after two U.S. starts while lowering his mark to 1:51.3. Not too many Scottish-bred horses make it to these shores, but Moneyhill GB may cause a wave of investigation into the land of the kilt as he flashed home in :54.3, and needed all of that speed to defeat pylonshooting Chief Bogo by a nose for driver Tyler Buter and trainer-owner Robert Cleary.
 
The $16,000 claiming handicap pace saw the Huntsville gelding Prospectors Gold find lively cover and went on to be victorious by 1½ lengths over the horse on his back, Thunder Hunter Joe, in 1:52. Braxten Boyd drove the eleven-time winner in 2025 for trainer Peter Pellegrino and owner Gary Levine.
 
Feature winners Boyd, Buter (the meet leader), and Warren all doubled on the card, as did Anthony Napolitano, who bookended the afternoon.
 
Monday’s card at Pocono features the $20,000 Winter Is Coming Pacing Series Final, with no entrant winning during both preliminary legs of the event. Tuesday will feature the Winter Is Coming Trotting Series Championship, and then this coming Saturday, the 22nd, will be the last card of the 2025 meet at Pocono. Free Pocono program pages are or will be available at www.phha.org.

By: Jerry Connors, Jr. 
CHESTER PA –- Harrah’s Philadelphia is now presenting a Friday series for $10,000 pacing claimers, with three preliminary rounds worth $8000 a division, leading up to a $12,500 Championship (and $10,000 consolations) on November 30 for those doing best in the prelims.
 
After five divisions of the first prelim last Friday, Philly hosted the second preliminary round on Friday afternoon seven divisions strong, and we now know several important things about the competing horses.
 
--There have been a dozen prelims in the first two weeks, and there have been twelve different horses winning.
 
--No winner in the competitive racing Friday won any of the seven divisions by more than a length.
 
--The only winner on Friday who was claimed was also the only favorite in the septet of races, and he won over the only horse who won and was claimed last week – and that one is now going back to his “other” owners after being reclaimed.
 
The only winning chalk in the series Friday was Just Bet It All, who was dropped from a $15,000 tag to this series’ $10,000 selling price, and he promptly won in 1:54.3 for driver Simon Allard. Trainer Besim Odza was the only conditioner to harness a pair of winners Friday -- but he will not be training Just Bet It All this coming week. A half-length behind him was Alliance, who now has two nice finishes in this series, and who returned to the trainer who won with him in the first round.
 
The fastest series winner this week was Brookdale Seb, who had been racing in series action – but that was in the Winter Is Coming Pacing Series at Pocono. Going to the claiming ranks here (he had won for a $12,500 tag three starts back), he got the job done in 1:52.3 by a length while defeating In Rock We Trust after setting a fast pace and rolling right along, and was not claimed.
 
Driver George Napolitano Jr., who led all sulkysmiths Friday with three victories, drove Brookdale Seb to the quick victory, and he won another series division with Real Lucky N, recording the second-fastest series clocking, 1:53. Simon Allard also won two divisions in the claiming series; besides Just Bet It All, he guided Kingston Panic to a 1:55.2 tally.
 
Jack Pelling also drove two of the series winners: Sporty Dragon in 1:54.3 and Boiler Maker in 1:54 in the closest decision in Friday’s series racing, a head ahead of Sea Storm. Capital Builder completed the second leg’s activity by winning in 1:53.2 for driver Mark Herschberger.
 
Including Just Bet It All and Alliance, there was a total of four series horses claimed Friday. That number is liable to significantly rise next Friday, as owners and trainers will have a better sense of who are likely to be the top contenders for the Championship, and they can prepare their checkbooks accordingly.
 
Philly’s leading driver Tim Tetrick was also among the sulky doublers on Friday.
 
The racing week at Philly concludes with a Sunday card at 12:40 p.m., with the spotlight on male pacers, both developing and established. Free Philly program pages are or will be available at www.phha.org.

By: Jerry Connors, Jr. 
CHESTER PA – The leading driver at Harrah’s Philadelphia, Tim Tetrick, was able to just get enough out of the Pilot Discretion sophomore gelding Flight Of Fritz to defeat favored filly Moni Buys Happynes to win the $13,500 feature on “Trottin’ Thursday” at the southeast Pennsylvania oval.
 
Moni Buys Happynes, who had a 7-4-2-0 record coming into the race after not racing at two, went out to command and put up fractions of :27.4 and :57.2. Tetrick roared up from midpack uncovered down the backstretch to take a small advantage before the 1:26.4 three-quarters, and while the lead showed grit by keeping her foe hung at the end of the backstretch and through the turn, she could not resist his persistent onslaught in the stretch, with Flight Of Fritz reducing his mark 2 3/5 seconds with the 1:55.3 victory. The winner triumphed by three-quarters of a length for trainer Scott Di Domenico and his Triple D Stables Inc., partner with co-owner Michael Rekoon.
 
Tetrick got a second win before heading to Dover for Matron Stake action, this one also for Di Domenico, who had a total of three on the day. They combined with the Sebastian K S gelding Benjamin Hanover, who was just too good for his opposition as he won by five lengths in 1:54.2, although 123-1 shot Meadowbranch Noble enlivened the pari-mutuel action by finishing second. Benjamin Hanover, with 26 victories in 48 career starts, is owned by Angela Cornell.
 
Two $12,000 trots for developing younger horses went to the Tactical Landing three-year-old gelding Clear For Landing, now a six-time winner in ten career starts after also not racing at two, in 1:58.4 for driver Simon Allard, trainer Per Engblom, and Consus Racing Stable Inc., and 20-1 proposition DW’s Lady Diva, a sophomore daughter of Devious Man who posted a 1:59.1 triumph for driver George Napolitano Jr., trainer Neal Ehrhart, and owner Jaypaul Hoover.
 
Di Domenico led the horsemen today with his three wins; others with multiple success stories besides Tetrick were driver Johnathan Ahle and trainer Åke Svanstedt combining with each other twice, and George Napolitano Jr. in the sulky.
 
Friday’s 12:25 card at Harrah’s Philadelphia will feature no fewer than seven divisions of the second preliminary leg of a series for $10,000 claimers, with four of last week’s five first round winners back in action trying to earn their way into their November 30 Championship. Free Philly program pages are or will be available at www.phha.org.