By: Jerry Connors, Jr.
WILKES-BARRE PA – Tyler Buter, who has been the leading driver at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania during the afternoon and evening pari-mutuel racing, decided to extend his dominance to the mornings as well, as he won five qualifying races at the northeast Pennsylvania oval on Wednesday, guiding three of trainer Hunter Oakes’s four victorious charges and also doubling for trainer John Butenschoen.
Among the winners he drove for Butenschoen was R Melina, who last year was generally regarded as the second-best filly in her class behind Allegiant. The now four-year-old daughter of Chapter Seven, who numbered the Kentucky Filly Futurity and the New York Sire Stakes Championship among her successes, returned to the races with a dominating 1:56.3 victory for the ownership of M and L Delaware / Armitage Farm.
Trainer Oakes had a trio of talented three-year-old pacing males take victories, with two of them driven by Buter and sired by Huntsville: Excelsior final winner Invictus wired his field in 1:53.4 - :28, and multiple stakes winner Thirsty Thursday went to the lead nearing the far turn and came home in :27.3 to stop the clock at 1:55.2. Oakes teamed with Jason Bartlett as Dandy Ideal, a son of American Ideal who ended his baby campaign with four straight successes including the Matron final (in which Thirsty Thursday was second), flashed home in :26.2 from second-over in a 1:54.1 triumph.
The Pocono qualifiers can be seen at www.phha.org.
WILKES-BARRE PA – Tyler Buter, who has been the leading driver at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania during the afternoon and evening pari-mutuel racing, decided to extend his dominance to the mornings as well, as he won five qualifying races at the northeast Pennsylvania oval on Wednesday, guiding three of trainer Hunter Oakes’s four victorious charges and also doubling for trainer John Butenschoen.
Among the winners he drove for Butenschoen was R Melina, who last year was generally regarded as the second-best filly in her class behind Allegiant. The now four-year-old daughter of Chapter Seven, who numbered the Kentucky Filly Futurity and the New York Sire Stakes Championship among her successes, returned to the races with a dominating 1:56.3 victory for the ownership of M and L Delaware / Armitage Farm.
Trainer Oakes had a trio of talented three-year-old pacing males take victories, with two of them driven by Buter and sired by Huntsville: Excelsior final winner Invictus wired his field in 1:53.4 - :28, and multiple stakes winner Thirsty Thursday went to the lead nearing the far turn and came home in :27.3 to stop the clock at 1:55.2. Oakes teamed with Jason Bartlett as Dandy Ideal, a son of American Ideal who ended his baby campaign with four straight successes including the Matron final (in which Thirsty Thursday was second), flashed home in :26.2 from second-over in a 1:54.1 triumph.
The Pocono qualifiers can be seen at www.phha.org.
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