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NAPOLITANO BROTHERS DOMINANT IN WEDNESDAY POCONO Q'S

2/26/2020

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By: Jerry Connors, Jr. 
WILKES-BARRE PA – The driving brothers Anthony and George Napolitano Jr. certainly held the hot hands during Wednesday morning’s qualifying session at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, and each teamed well with a specific trainer – Anthony guided four Jose Godinez trainees to victory, with four horses conditioned by Gilbert Garcia-Herrera brought home first by George.
 
Two of the “ANap”-Godinez horses took the primary spotlight, as they defeated free-for-all horses Western Ideal and Springsteen, both members of Team Allard. Western Ideal, the 2019 Levy Final winner and a winner in morning action here last week, had to settle for second, 3¾ lengths behind the two-moving Havefaithinme N, who tripped the timer in a solid 1:52, last half :55, for the ownership of Blindswitch Racing Stable, Gary Axelrod, Good Friends Racing Stable, and Santo Farina. And if the nine-year-old Havefaithinme N’s name rings a certain bell, that’s because it should – the altered son of Bettor’s Delight is a career winner of $1.3 million, and in 2016 he paced what was at the time the fastest mile in Australasian harness history, 1:47 5/10, in winning the Miracle Mile over the Menangle Park 7/8-mile oval.
​Springsteen, now five and the winner of the 2018 Hempt Memorial right here at Pocono, closed determinedly from far back, but his :55.1-:27.1 bid home came up a head shy of the American Ideal mare Sally Fletcher A, who also made two moves controlling the tempo in a 1:54.4, with Blindswitch Racing Stable doubling up in the Wednesday morning “features.”
 
The most impressive of the George Nap – Garcia-Herrera horses was the $900,000+-winning Lispatty, who stepped home in :55.2 - :27.2 as the McArdle mare toured the Pocono oval in 1:53 for owner Gilbert Garcia-Owen.
 
FINISHING LINES – After Saturday’s card at 5 p.m., Pocono switches post times in March to its standard 7 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday and 4 p.m. on most other racing days, primarily Monday and Tuesday. There will be racing Sunday, March 1 at 7 p.m., and then the first Monday card of the year on the 2nd at 4 p.m., with three cards a week in vogue throughout the end of March.
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