By: Jerry Connors, Jr.
CHESTER PA – Driver Mark Herschberger won both of the feature races on Sunday afternoon at Harrah’s Philadelphia, taking totally different routes to the winners circle while working his way into the local sulky Top Ten.
In the $13,500 featured pace for up-and-coming pacers, the up-and-coming Herschberger sat last early in a short field with the Captaintreacherous gelding Captain Marvel, then moved three-wide off of a second-over trip. Easy Lou looked like he might have gotten away on the front end after fractions of :26.4, :55.4, and 1:24.1, but Captain Marvel came home with a pair of identical back quarters of :27.3 to be up by a nose in a lifetime best 1:52.1. Michael Posner trains the winner for owner Jeffrey Dauplaise.
In the $13,000 pace for the fast-class crew, favored Soaring Now drifted outside midpack early, then rushed up past a :26.4 quarter to take over. Middle fractions of :55.1 and 1:23.1 preceded a :27.2 blitz home that carried the winner home safely in the 1:50.3 mile. Trainer Robert Cleary, on quite a run with his 36% seasonal win average, conditions the victorious son of JK Endofanera, who was coming off a 1:48.3 victory at The Meadowlands, for Kenneth Jacobs and David Reid.
Four-time defending Philly driving champion Tim Tetrick was joined by Simon Allard with three visits to victory lane on Sunday. Two of Tetrick’s victories came for trainer Scott Di Domenico, while Allard won the last race for Izzy Estrada – the two conditioners with two winners on the card.
Racing will continue at Harrah’s Philadelphia this coming Thursday and Friday at 12:25 and Sunday at 12:40. The track’s signature “Super Sunday,” containing $100,000 Invitationals for trotters, pacing males, and pacing females, along with Pennsylvania Sire Stakes and Stallion Stakes for the “glamour division,” the three-year-old pacing males, will be held at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Sunday, May 25.
Free Philly program pages are or will be available at www.phha.org.
CHESTER PA – Driver Mark Herschberger won both of the feature races on Sunday afternoon at Harrah’s Philadelphia, taking totally different routes to the winners circle while working his way into the local sulky Top Ten.
In the $13,500 featured pace for up-and-coming pacers, the up-and-coming Herschberger sat last early in a short field with the Captaintreacherous gelding Captain Marvel, then moved three-wide off of a second-over trip. Easy Lou looked like he might have gotten away on the front end after fractions of :26.4, :55.4, and 1:24.1, but Captain Marvel came home with a pair of identical back quarters of :27.3 to be up by a nose in a lifetime best 1:52.1. Michael Posner trains the winner for owner Jeffrey Dauplaise.
In the $13,000 pace for the fast-class crew, favored Soaring Now drifted outside midpack early, then rushed up past a :26.4 quarter to take over. Middle fractions of :55.1 and 1:23.1 preceded a :27.2 blitz home that carried the winner home safely in the 1:50.3 mile. Trainer Robert Cleary, on quite a run with his 36% seasonal win average, conditions the victorious son of JK Endofanera, who was coming off a 1:48.3 victory at The Meadowlands, for Kenneth Jacobs and David Reid.
Four-time defending Philly driving champion Tim Tetrick was joined by Simon Allard with three visits to victory lane on Sunday. Two of Tetrick’s victories came for trainer Scott Di Domenico, while Allard won the last race for Izzy Estrada – the two conditioners with two winners on the card.
Racing will continue at Harrah’s Philadelphia this coming Thursday and Friday at 12:25 and Sunday at 12:40. The track’s signature “Super Sunday,” containing $100,000 Invitationals for trotters, pacing males, and pacing females, along with Pennsylvania Sire Stakes and Stallion Stakes for the “glamour division,” the three-year-old pacing males, will be held at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Sunday, May 25.
Free Philly program pages are or will be available at www.phha.org.
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