After the Lazarus N-Olivette Hanover gelding Endofstory returned more than $30 in top-level wins in his last two starts, the crowd at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania on Saturday Nov. 14 caught on, and Endofstory returned $3.20 as he repeated in the $39,286 Winners Over Handicap Pace.

Always A Thrill (Ridge Warren) circled past Endofstory just past the :26.3 quarter, but George Napolitano Jr. was right back out with the streaking pacer to reclaim the lead before the :55.2 half. Jolimont N (Tyler Buter) started to mount a challenge to the pacesetter near the 1:22.1 three-quarters and grinded up dangerously, but Endofstory, currently in sharp form for trainer Doug Dilloian Jr., resisted his challenger by a neck in the 1:50.2 mile. Fifth And Five (Jonathan Ahle) finished third.

David Linker, Brian Loman, Robert Venable and Kyle Warren own the winner of 23 of 66 lifetime starts and $601,027 in earnings. The five-year-old is now seven-for-19 on the year.

In the top trot of the week, Oversear ($3.60) overcame the trailing post nine to win a $25,000 contest for developing horses in 1:54.3, running his record to two-for-two since being acquired by Burke Racing Stable LLC, Weaver Bruscemi LLC, Knox Services Inc. and FAC Racing LLC. Oversear, an altered sophomore son of International Moni-Legal Lady, rushed uncovered to the lead at the three-quarters and won easily for Pocono’s leading duo, driver Tyler Buter and trainer Ron Burke.

The card also featured three $15,714 divisions of the third and final preliminary round of the Game Of Claims Pacing Series (GOCPS) for horses base-tagged this week at $21,429. A unique feature of this Pocono series now will figure prominently – that a horse must start in all three preliminaries to make the championship, which will be held next Saturday, closing day, for $17,500 USD.

The Domethatagain-Golden Ace gelding Greater Than Aces ($3.80) ended his series prelims three-for-three, making a big move down the back for driver Braxten Boyd and going on to a 1:53.1 win. But owner-trainer James Perry Jr., who bought the seven-year-old out of the first prelim, saw Greater Than Aces again change hands and leave his shedrow after earning $14,899 in two starts for the horseman.

Trainer Brandon Presto, second in the standings at The Meadows behind the Burke Brigade, conditioned the other two series winners, and neither was claimed – but neither will be in the final because of the “race in all three prelims” series rule. The five-year-old Captaintreacherous-Social Scene gelding San Remo Hanover ($6.80) came from The Meadows this week and won in 1:53 for driver Tyler Buter and owner Rocco Stebbins, and the four-year-old Keystone Velocity-Midnight Jewel gelding Doobie Nights ($6.40) added another victory in as many GOCPS starts in 1:53.4 with Braxten Boyd aboard for Meredith Farms LLC.

George Napolitano Jr. won four races for the second straight day – Friday at Philly and Saturday at The Downs. Braxten Boyd and Tyler Buter each sulkysat two winners on the 12-race card. Brandon Presto, as mentioned, had a training double, and so did Darren Taneyhill, who has narrowed Ron Burke’s lead in the training colony to 79-75 with three cards left here in the 2026 season.

Those three cards will be held on Monday, Tuesday and Saturday at 1 p.m., and a series championship is on tap each day – the Winter Is Coming Series for trotters on Monday and pacers on Tuesday, and the Game Of Claims championship on closing day, Nov. 21.

(With files from PHHA/Pocono)