Photo: Curtis Salonick
By: Jerry Connors, Jr.
WILKES-BARRE PA – Brett Beckwith won six races during the Saturday afternoon card at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, the most for any driver during a single 2026 program at the northeast Pennsylvania oval.
There were three divisions of a $17,500 class for developing horses featured on the card, one for pacers and two for trotters, and Beckwith took one on each gait on a day that produced low- to mid-40s temperatures and a stretch tailwind. The pace proved one of four successful teamings between Beckwith and the combine of trainer Enrico Robinson and owner Pollack Racing LLC, as the Captaintreacherous gelding Lochlan Hanover charged home from third-over to win by a neck over Captain Luffy in a new mark of 1:51.3.
Beckwith took one of the trots with Shoresy, who won his fifth in a row and fourth straight at Pocono after making an early move to command, playing a bit of “possum” on the far turn, and then drawing off through the stretch in 1:55.2. The son of Cantab Hall, owned by Timothy Betts and Shanamphilankilou Inc., has won all of his quintet of starts since entering the barn of the meet’s leading trainer, Per Engblom, a doubler on the day.
The other diamondgaited headliner went to the Muscle Mass gelding Royal Comet, who lowered his mark to 1:54.3 for driver Colin Kelly and trainer Tony Alagna; his owner, basketball star Sam Bowie, grew up some 90 miles away from Pocono in Lebanon PA. Royal Comet was the top trotter in his class in Iowa at two and three and is continuing his successful ways: he has won 18 of 33 lifetime starts, and has been 1-2-3 in all but one of his outings.
The last of the wins for Team Beckwith / Robinson / Pollack came in the pacing division of a $15,000 fast-class event, with Hunting Zone, an altered son of Huntsville, keeping control from the pole throughout, then defeating pocketsitting favorite Borninlockdown GB by a head in a 1:50.3 mile that saw five horses separated by less than a length at the finish.
The fast-class trot was won by the Mosaique Face gelding Aquarius Face S, rallying up the inside to succeed by a half-length over Dribbling Bi in 1:53.4, a lifetime best, for the meet’s leading driver, Tyler Buter, and giving trainer Engblom his second victory. Engblom Farm LLC co-owns the winner Ellerstromgruppen AB.
Buter needed this win to retain his spot atop the Pocono standings, as Anthony Napolitano won three times on the card to leave him just one off Buter’s total at day’s end. Two of his Saturday wins were part of trainer Darren Taneyhill’s winning trio on the card, including the Somebeachsomewhere gelding Macadoodledoo, who changed shedrows after a claim by owner Mark Jakubik, stepped up in class, and overcame the outside post in the fastest mile of the day, 1:50.2.
Beckwith, who won with the other Taneyhill trainee and who has raced at Pocono on Saturdays only so far this year, vaulted up to a tie for fourth in the local standings; he is on top of the win columns at The Meadowlands and Saratoga. Taneyhill moved up to second on his side of the statistics.
Racing at Pocono resumes on Monday at 1 p.m., with distaff pacers in the highlight races. Free Pocono program pages are or will be available at www.phha.org.
WILKES-BARRE PA – Brett Beckwith won six races during the Saturday afternoon card at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, the most for any driver during a single 2026 program at the northeast Pennsylvania oval.
There were three divisions of a $17,500 class for developing horses featured on the card, one for pacers and two for trotters, and Beckwith took one on each gait on a day that produced low- to mid-40s temperatures and a stretch tailwind. The pace proved one of four successful teamings between Beckwith and the combine of trainer Enrico Robinson and owner Pollack Racing LLC, as the Captaintreacherous gelding Lochlan Hanover charged home from third-over to win by a neck over Captain Luffy in a new mark of 1:51.3.
Beckwith took one of the trots with Shoresy, who won his fifth in a row and fourth straight at Pocono after making an early move to command, playing a bit of “possum” on the far turn, and then drawing off through the stretch in 1:55.2. The son of Cantab Hall, owned by Timothy Betts and Shanamphilankilou Inc., has won all of his quintet of starts since entering the barn of the meet’s leading trainer, Per Engblom, a doubler on the day.
The other diamondgaited headliner went to the Muscle Mass gelding Royal Comet, who lowered his mark to 1:54.3 for driver Colin Kelly and trainer Tony Alagna; his owner, basketball star Sam Bowie, grew up some 90 miles away from Pocono in Lebanon PA. Royal Comet was the top trotter in his class in Iowa at two and three and is continuing his successful ways: he has won 18 of 33 lifetime starts, and has been 1-2-3 in all but one of his outings.
The last of the wins for Team Beckwith / Robinson / Pollack came in the pacing division of a $15,000 fast-class event, with Hunting Zone, an altered son of Huntsville, keeping control from the pole throughout, then defeating pocketsitting favorite Borninlockdown GB by a head in a 1:50.3 mile that saw five horses separated by less than a length at the finish.
The fast-class trot was won by the Mosaique Face gelding Aquarius Face S, rallying up the inside to succeed by a half-length over Dribbling Bi in 1:53.4, a lifetime best, for the meet’s leading driver, Tyler Buter, and giving trainer Engblom his second victory. Engblom Farm LLC co-owns the winner Ellerstromgruppen AB.
Buter needed this win to retain his spot atop the Pocono standings, as Anthony Napolitano won three times on the card to leave him just one off Buter’s total at day’s end. Two of his Saturday wins were part of trainer Darren Taneyhill’s winning trio on the card, including the Somebeachsomewhere gelding Macadoodledoo, who changed shedrows after a claim by owner Mark Jakubik, stepped up in class, and overcame the outside post in the fastest mile of the day, 1:50.2.
Beckwith, who won with the other Taneyhill trainee and who has raced at Pocono on Saturdays only so far this year, vaulted up to a tie for fourth in the local standings; he is on top of the win columns at The Meadowlands and Saratoga. Taneyhill moved up to second on his side of the statistics.
Racing at Pocono resumes on Monday at 1 p.m., with distaff pacers in the highlight races. Free Pocono program pages are or will be available at www.phha.org.
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