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ITSONLYMONEYHONEY IMPRESSIVE IN FRIDAY CHILL AT PHILLY

12/21/2020

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By: Jerry Connors, Jr. 
CHESTER PA – With the temperature registering just two degrees above freezing, the Banker Volo sophomore trotting gelding Itsonlymoneyhoney provided the heat by winning the trotting section of a pair of $11,200 features in a lifetime best of 1:55.4 on Friday afternoon at Harrah’s Philadelphia. 
 
The recent import from Iowa via Hoosier and Yonkers had to go first-over, but he proved more than equal to the task, coming his own back half in :56.4 for driver Andrew McCarthy (a three-time winner on the afternoon). Itsonlymoneyhoney won by 4¾ lengths over favored Father Dunn, who tried to follow his cover but could not stay with him. The Rob Harmon-trained three-year-old, owned by Harmon Racing Stable LLC, Lawrence Kittenplan, and Winners Circle Racing LLC, won his second straight, and he has recorded 12 victories in but 34 lifetime starts.
​In the pacing section of the feature, the Rockin Image four-year-old gelding Rockin Medicine visited Victory Lane for the first time in 885 days (July 26 of his freshman form), setting the pace and then pacing gamely to withstand a long first-over bid from Surfer Beach for a neck tally in 1:53.4. Marcus Miller drove the winner, who had shown sharp form with three straight seconds against good opposition since coming to Philly, for trainer/father Erv and the partnership of Red Barn Stable and Louis Willinger.
 
The $10,000 fast-class pace saw Shnitzledosomethin, second in his Breeders Crown freshman final three years ago, raise his lifetime earnings to $784,833 with a nice engine victory in 1:51.1 for Todd McCarthy. The son of Fred And Ginger, making his second start since a short layoff, looks ready for better opposition for trainer Dylan Davis and the partnership of Howard Taylor, Edwin Gold, Abraham Basen, and Richard Lombardo.
 
Trainer Ron Burke and Gilbert Garcia-Herrera each trained a winner on the Friday card; they remain knotted at the top of the Philly training standings with 86 victories, with but four cards to go in the local 2020 season.
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