Dougs Fame kept his winning streak alive by moving up in class to win the featured Open Handicap Pace on Friday night at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs. The race carried a purse of $30,000

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Leaving as a 2-1 second choice from post position No. 4 in a field of seven, Dougs Fame and driver Anthony Napolitano took over the lead shortly after coming around the first turn. He was challenged constantly on both the back side and in the home stretch, but he turned away all foes to win in the slop in 1:50.3. Sky Tantrum finished a length back in second while Cheyenne Knight got the show.

The win was the third straight at Pocono, all on sloppy tracks, for the four-year-old stallion sired by Apaches Fame. Dougs Fame, owned by Burke Racing Stable and Weaver Bruscemi of Pennsylvania and JJK Stables and Walter Haas, Jr. of Florida and trained by Ron Burke, won for the seventh time in 34 starts in 2009 and picked up his 12th lifetime win, pushing his career earnings past $251,000.

(Pocono Downs)