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PAT MATTERS CONTINUES WINNING WAYS IN SUNDAY POCONO FEATURE

9/30/2019

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By: Jerry Connors, Jr. 
WILKES-BARRE PA – The Explosive Matter mare Pat Matters has now won three straight and has taken five out of six since joining the Nifty Norman stable after she won the $21,500 featured trot at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono on Sunday evening.
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Pat Matters, owned by the Patricia Stable, was sent right to the top by driver Eric Goodell, and then the second choice yielded to favored Scirocco Rob near the :27.4 quarter. Scirocco Rob, also going for his third straight, put up middle fractions of :56.2 and 1:24.2, but Pat Matters was taken to the outside by Goodell midway on the far turn, and the mare proved full of trot, with fast-closing Whats The Word moving well late but still a neck shy of the winner on the wire. The time of the mile was 1:52.2 – the third straight race Pat Matters has been timed in that clocking, her personal best.
There was a trio of $17,000 co-features. The trot went to the Yankee Glide gelding Max, cutting the pace for Eric Goodell and winning by a half-length over a narrowing-in Trixar in 1:54.3. Ron Burke conditions the late-developing four-year-old for Burke Racing Stable LLC, Weaver Bruscemi LLC and Frank Baldachino.

The Napolitano brothers split the pacing co-features. In the event for males, Anthony Napolitano teamed with Twin B Tuffenuff to give trainer Ron Burke a double in the co-features, the son of Rock N Roll Heaven following Grantmeawish as that one brushed to the lead late on the backstretch, then going by him late for a 1¼ length victory in a lifetime mark of 1:50.2 for Burke Racing Stable LLC and Weaver Bruscemi LLC. Anthony Napolitano had five winners on the night – including the three winners on the 14-race card that paid more than $10.00 to win.
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In the pacing distaff co-feature, Anthony’s brother George sat third-over with the Captaintreacherous filly Demi Hill behind a contested pace, then rallied her briskly through the final quarter to prevail by 1¼ lengths over the leader Coral Bella in 1:53. Demi Hill has now won eight of seventeen seasonal starts for trainer Chris Oakes and owner Tom Hill.
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