Photo: Curtis Salonick
By: Jerry Connors, Jr.
WILKES-BARRE PA – The feature of the final Sunday night card of 2025 at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania was an $11,500 fast-class trot, in which the Kadabra mare P L Notsonice had a notsonice trip, but still won in 1:54 to boost her lifetime earnings to $703,116.
Anthony Napolitano tucked third early with the winner in a :27.1 quarter put up by One After Nine, then considered quarter-moving but was beaten to that tactic by Cassius Hanover, who gained the top and slowed the half to :57. P L Notsonice and “ANap” were out again on the grind down the backstretch and for the rest of the way, but the favored mare’s class came through as she held off a late rail charge by 23-1 One After Nine, with Cassius Hanover third. Steven Brabrook trains the winner for Elite Harness Racing LLC.
Impressive two-year-old winners were the Stay Hungry – The Santafeexpress filly Santafe’s Hungry, who was just along to catch heavy favorite Amira Hanover and break her maiden in 1:53.4, coming her back fractions in :55.4 - :27.3, for driver Matt Kakaley, trainer Carl Conte Jr., and owner Edward De Rosa; and the Greenshoe three-year-old gelding Credible Control, who came up the inside after a blistering pace to win for the first time in 1:57.2, for the meet’s leading driver and trainer, Tyler Buter and Ron Burke, and the partnership of Burke Racing Stable LLC, Lawrence Karr, Knox Services Inc., and Beasty LLC.
Doubles were posted by Burke, Kakaley, and amateur driver Tony Beltrami, whose exploits will be further examined in the separate American Harness Drivers Series story.
Pocono now switches to a basic schedule of Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday racing at 1 p.m. On Monday, September 8, the best of the Pennsylvania Stallion Series competitors will clash for $320,000 and bragging rights in each of the eight Stallion Series divisions; this card will be drawn Tuesday, and entries should be available by mid-afternoon. The track is scheduled to be dark on September 13-16 for its annual refurbishing of the racing surface.
Free Pocono program pages are or will be available at www.phha.org.
WILKES-BARRE PA – The feature of the final Sunday night card of 2025 at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania was an $11,500 fast-class trot, in which the Kadabra mare P L Notsonice had a notsonice trip, but still won in 1:54 to boost her lifetime earnings to $703,116.
Anthony Napolitano tucked third early with the winner in a :27.1 quarter put up by One After Nine, then considered quarter-moving but was beaten to that tactic by Cassius Hanover, who gained the top and slowed the half to :57. P L Notsonice and “ANap” were out again on the grind down the backstretch and for the rest of the way, but the favored mare’s class came through as she held off a late rail charge by 23-1 One After Nine, with Cassius Hanover third. Steven Brabrook trains the winner for Elite Harness Racing LLC.
Impressive two-year-old winners were the Stay Hungry – The Santafeexpress filly Santafe’s Hungry, who was just along to catch heavy favorite Amira Hanover and break her maiden in 1:53.4, coming her back fractions in :55.4 - :27.3, for driver Matt Kakaley, trainer Carl Conte Jr., and owner Edward De Rosa; and the Greenshoe three-year-old gelding Credible Control, who came up the inside after a blistering pace to win for the first time in 1:57.2, for the meet’s leading driver and trainer, Tyler Buter and Ron Burke, and the partnership of Burke Racing Stable LLC, Lawrence Karr, Knox Services Inc., and Beasty LLC.
Doubles were posted by Burke, Kakaley, and amateur driver Tony Beltrami, whose exploits will be further examined in the separate American Harness Drivers Series story.
Pocono now switches to a basic schedule of Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday racing at 1 p.m. On Monday, September 8, the best of the Pennsylvania Stallion Series competitors will clash for $320,000 and bragging rights in each of the eight Stallion Series divisions; this card will be drawn Tuesday, and entries should be available by mid-afternoon. The track is scheduled to be dark on September 13-16 for its annual refurbishing of the racing surface.
Free Pocono program pages are or will be available at www.phha.org.
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