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TOP ME OFF NOTCHES ANOTHER WIN IN PHILLY FEATURE

7/15/2022

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By: Jerry Connors, Jr. 
CHESTER PA – Top Me Off was the winningest three-year-old male trotter of North America in 2021, and the son of Bar Hopping continues to exhibit good form, on Thursday afternoon winning the $15,300 featured trot at Harrah’s Philadelphia under Tim Tetrick’s guidance, paying an un-Tetrick-like $41.40.
 
Tetrick spotted Top Me Off fourth early from the outside post eight as favored Star Razor, going for his sixth straight victory, took command at the :27.4 quarter and went on to put up fractions of :56.3 and 1:25.3. Top Me Off had been given his marching orders going uncovered down the back and through the turn, and in the stretch it was Top Me Off who proved the strongest, winning by a half length over pocketsitter AP Hall Of Trix, with Star Razor another half length back. 
 
Top Me Off, who was purchased by trainer Arlene Cameron at the end of last year, equaled his lifetime best of 1:54.2 with the win Thursday, but putting up fast clockings is old hat to him – he holds the  record for the fastest trotting mile ever on the Pennsylvania Fair Circuit, going in 1:57.2 at Gratz last season.
 
Tom Haughton, a member of one of harness racing’s most prominent “golden families” and still with his hand in on a reduced basis, trained his first winner in over just a year (encompassing just thirteen starts) when his mare Nancy Bar, also sired by Bar Hopping, went wire-to-wire for driver George Napolitano Jr. Nancy Bar was the longest-priced winner on a day when upsets were generally the rule, paying $54.60 while also overcoming the outside post eight (which does better at Philly than at most tracks, with an 8.2% win ratio).
 
Andy Miller won four races on the day, two for trainer/wife Julie; Tim Tetrick, the meet’s leading driver, was next in line with three tallies, two for trainer Arlene Cameron.
 
The next few days of racing at Harrah’s Philadelphia have some sort of feature every day. Friday there are $5000 guaranteed pools for the Pick-4 bets beginning in races one and ten, and a $1525.46 carryover for the Pick-5, which launches in race five. On Sunday, 2021’s superstar free-for-aller Allywag Hanover comes to town, handicapped to the outside post six in a $22,500 contest. And next Wednesday and Thursday two-year-old males will contest a leg of their Pennsylvania Sire Stakes / Stallion Series contests – the pacers on Wednesday and the trotters on Thursday. Program pages are or will be available at https://www.phha.org/harrahspps.html.
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