Three-year-olds looking to take major steps up the classification ladder will be meeting at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania throughout the month on April in the Bobby Weiss Series, with the first preliminary action set for this Saturday, April 4.

Named after the longtime master trackman at Pocono, the Weiss Series features sections for each of the four sex/gait divisions of sophomores, with the top horses in three preliminary legs coming together for $50,000 USD series championships starting on April 25. Pacing colts will race on Saturdays and their trotting counterparts match up on Mondays; females of both gaits will go gateward on Tuesdays.

In the opening round for side-wheeling males on Saturday, many eyes will be on the Captaintreacherous gelding Barrow, who is undefeated this season in three starts, including a 1:51.3 mark, and who wheels right back in after triumphing this past Tuesday. Bradley Chisholm is listed to drive the Brett Pelling trainee in the day's fourth and final $17,500 USD division, carded as race 12.

Any horse who lures Dave Palone eastward in Pennsylvania also deserves extra attention, and among the all-time leading driver’s mounts on Saturday is the Perfect Sting gelding Stingman, undefeated in four 2026 starts, all at The Meadows. The Rick Hercules trainee headlines the second split in race six.

Two trotters matched in the first preliminary for trotting males on Monday are Bee Positive, by Walner out of former Horse of the Year Bee A Magician, who comes off a maiden-breaking win of 1:55.3 at The Meadowlands, and Dilly Hanover, an altered son of International Moni who blasted home in :56.3 to make his career debut a winning one in 1:56.3 at Pocono on Tuesday. Tyler Buter is listed to drive Bee Positive for trainer Nifty Norman while Braxten Boyd gets the call on the Emily Bost-trained Dilly Hanover in the sixth race event.

The only trotting filly entered in the Weiss on Tuesday who shows a 2026 victory is Cynic, a daughter of Captain Corey, and she has already posted three triumphs, including a 1:56 victory in the Wohlmuth Memorial Series final at The Meadows. Buter is listed to drive Cynic in the fourth and final trotting filly division in race 11 for the Britney Dillon stable. Her opponents in the series certainly have the pedigrees to go on – five of them were six-figure sales at the yearling auctions. 

In the pacing miss Weiss action, Jaimes Way looked very promising here at Pocono on Monday when she showed a high gear in the stretch, the Papi Rob Hanover filly breaking her maiden in 1:53.3 with a strong back half. Pelling has listed Buter to drive in the first division for this set in race six.

Trainer Michael Hall comes north from Rosecroft Raceway with two three-year-olds showing a 3-2-1-0 seasonal tab: She B Minnie (by Always B Miki) and Sicerto (by Sweet Lou) – with their two stallions still sharing the Pocono track record of 1:47. Tim Tetrick has the catch-drives on both in the second and third divisions in races eight and 10, respectively.

(With files from PHHA/Pocono)