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UNDRTHSOUTHRNSUN N CAN'T SPLL, CAN PACE 1:49.4 AT PHILLY

6/13/2022

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By: Jerry Connors, Jr. 
CHESTER PA – For the second straight week the Somebeachsomewhere gelding Undrthsouthrnsun N parlayed a perfect pocket trip into a lifetime work – last week he won in 1:50 at Pocono, and on Sunday he lowered his mark by a tick by taking the $16,200 featured pace at Harrah’s Philadelphia.
 
Race favorite I’ll Drink To That used the rail to push the Simon Allard-driven Undrthsouthrnsun N to a :25.4 quarter (the track was rerated from “good” to “fast” after this race) before he yielded the front, but the chalk was soon out to reclaim it, hitting the half in :54.1 and three-quarters in 1:21.3, at the latter station coming under pressure from first-over second choice Walknafter Midnite. Allard had his pacer perfectly placed just behind the embattled leaders, and in the stretch took the inside route to victory over Lyons Steel, who had sat behind him the last five-eighths; I’ll Drink To That and Walknaftermidnite had to settle for third and fourth, respectively. 
 
Jennifer Bongiorno took over the training the horse when he came south from Woodbine Mohawk in mid-May, and she certainly has the pacer in peak form for M T Stables Ontario Inc.
 
Three $9900 divisions of American Harness Drivers Club competition for amateur drivers were also featured. Two of them were won by 25-year-old Jonathan Ahle, and one of them came with a horse only ten years younger than he – the 15YO TSM Photo Bugger, a career winner of $886,984 and allowed to race in amateur events past his “retirement age.” In His second start of the year, the altered son of S J’s Photo made a brisk backstretch move to the lead and went on to win easily in 1:56.1 for lessee/trainer Karen Fread.
 
Ahle also tallied with Lionhead, the Uncle Peter gelding getting a two-hole trip then responding inside late to win in 1:58.3 for owner/trainer Terry Morgan. The “pocket rocket” method was also successful for the E L Titan gelding Southwind Frost and driver Bob Heckhoff, a winner in 1:58.1 for trainer Michael Stallworth and Heckhoff’s own RBH Ventures Inc.
 
Dexter Dunn brought home five winners to lead the drivers colony on the Sunday card.
 
Harrah’s Philadelphia is back to its regular four-card-a-week schedule: Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at 12:25, and Sunday at 12:40. Program pages will be available at https://www.phha.org/harrahspps.html.
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