Pennsylvania Harness Horsemen's Association
  • Home
  • Welcome!
  • About the PHHA
  • Join the PHHA
  • PHHA PAC
  • Philanthrophy
  • PA Harness Week
  • PHHA Blog
Pennsylvania Harness Horsemen's Association

BELIEVER HOLDS ON FOR TUESDAY POCONO FEATURE VITORY

6/15/2022

0 Comments

 
Picture
Image: Curtis Salonick
By: Jerry Connors, Jr. 
WILKES-BARRE PA – Believer, the even-money favorite in the $12,500 featured trot at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono on Tuesday afternoon, may have lost some believers early as he was hung three-wide to a :27.2 quarter, but those who kept the faith cashed their tickets as the son of Cantab Hall took a new mark of 1:53.4.
 
Braxten Boyd drove his horse, coming off a win against similar at Yonkers, with aggression, but found others to his left with the same idea. He finally cleared to the lead early in the frontstretch after that tough opener, and didn’t let up a bit with middle fractions of :55.4 and 1:24.3. In the stretch Vic’s Winner proved to be the only major danger, but Boyd kept Believer together and they hit the wire a neck ahead of the challenger, pushing his earnings to $153,246 for trainer Randy Taft and Mali Norbye.
 
Tyler Buter won the last race of the day to end with three victories; the Napolitano brothers, Anthony and George Jr., joined Marcus Miller in posting doubles. George Napolitano Jr. has gone to the lead in the Pocono driving standings with a 108-104 edge over Matt Kakaley; the other three multiple winners on Tuesday are among the track’s leading half-dozen drivers. Gilbert Garcia-Herrera sent out a winner to boost his lead to 22 training wins, two ahead of Ron Burke and Darren Taneyhill.
 
There will be fourteen qualifiers for two-year-olds at Pocono on Wednesday morning, starting at 10 a.m. The next pari-mutuel action at the mountain oval will be on Saturday at 1:30 p.m.; on Sunday the Pennsylvania three-year-old trotting fillies come to town for the third round of their preliminary action, with all four Sire Stakes winners in the first two legs – Manon, Dreamonhigh, Samosa, and Palermo Hanover – set to race in one of two $67,991 divisions on the 5 p.m. card. Program pages for the betting races will be available at https://www.phha.org/downsmsppps.html.    
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    March 2023
    February 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    January 2017

    RSS Feed

Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture