Show Me Your Ace shot to a three-length victory off a pocket trip in the $19,444 conditioned pace feature on Sunday, June 14 at Harrah's Philadelphia, on a hot day in which 13 of 14 winners were first or second at the quarter.

In the race for pacers headed to the uppermost rungs of the class ladder, the American Ideal-Trip Aces Hanover colt closed off fractions of :27.2, :55.1, and 1:23 to win in 1:50.4, tying his lifetime mark.  Team Ryder is behind this sophomore – Patrick drives and Chris trains, with Chris also the co-owner with Anne Demers, Lawrence Minowitz and Åke Svanstedt. Southwind Galvestn (Simon Allard) finished second over Watch Em Win (Corey Callahan). Show Me Your Ace, who tangled with Grand Circuit rivals last year, improved to two-for-three this season. He paid $6.20 to win.

Corey Callahan brought home five winners on the 14-race card, most prominent among them Good Friday ($6.40) in the $16,667 sub-featured conditioned pace. The Tall Dark Stranger-Virgin Mary sophomore gelding made every pole a winning one in 1:53, with the :27.3 last quarter propelling him to a new mark in the three-quarter-length score. Callahan had sulky duty for trainer Tom Shay and owners Howard Taylor and Teena Freibert.

That victory was the second half of bookend wins for Callahan, who also won the first race with Boardwalk Bet ($28.60). The reinsman's other victories came with Captain Mikey ($4.80), La Mancha ($4.60) and Wish You Well ($2.80). Callahan has 108 wins this season from 770 starts.

The $18,056 top conditioned contest for the fast-class pacing set went to the Harrington invader Wehadababyetzaboy ($5.60), a seven-year-old Sweet Lou-Camille gelding who hustled to the front quickly and cut the mile for Patrick Ryder. Spring Blake (Art Stafford Jr.) was slightly favoured over the winner and made a good chase from the pocket, but Wehadababyetzaboy stayed strong to win by 1-3/4 lengths in a career-best 1:49.3 for trainer Chuck Crissman Jr. and owner EVM Racing LLC.

There were two $15,972 fast-class conditioned sub-features. The first went to Wedlock Blue Chip ($5.60), an improving four-year-old son of Bettors Wish-Heavenly Bride who lowered his mark to 1:50.2 on the engine. He showed :54 - :26.4 speed coming home to win by 3-3/4 lengths for driver Troy Beyer, trainer Polie Mallar and owner Richard Cortese. The companion sub-feature had the only “anti-bias” winner in all of the day’s races, as the six-year-old Stay Hungry-Radar Contact gelding Stay Grounded ($3.20) came first-over and paced his back half in :54.3 to nip pacesetting Lochlan Hanover (George Napolitano Jr.) by a nose in 1:51.1. Mark Herschberger guided the winner for trainer Noel Daley, who co-owns the gelding with Dean Ehrgott and Waldron Matthews.

Patrick Ryder visited victory lane three times, and George Napolitano Jr. won twice.

Plenty of two-year-olds will be out for early lessons during a Tuesday-morning qualifying session at Philly; the next pari-mutuel card will be on “Trottin’ Thursday.” The card features a $16,000 USD Winners Over Handicap Trot event, along with the first betting action for babies, with trotters of both sexes having a race apiece.

(With files from PHHA/Harrah's Philadelphia)