CHESTER PA – Two of the three winners in the featured trots at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Thursday overcame the outside post seven – a starting spot that had been 1-for-60 in the first six days of 2021 racing here – to record impressive victories.
Top purse event was a $12,800 contest for developing horses, and the Lionhunter gelding Banzai As reduced his record to 1:56 in defeating pacesetting favorite Rose Run Vincent by a length. Tim Tetrick had to go the tough tuck-then-first-over trip with the Annette Lorentzon trainee, but Banzai As showed himself capable of going on despite the hard journey for the ownership of ACL Stuteri AB.