Fans trying to solve the $13,000 featured pace on Monday, Oct. 29 at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono had a hard time in their deciding – one horse was sent away at 2-1, with three others at 5-2. That quartet finished 1-2-3-4, with the winner being the A Rocknroll Dance sophomore gelding Record Machine in 1:54 over a “good” track.
Record Machine got the jump on his field early, moving to the lead after a :27.2 quarter, then getting a big-time breather to a :57.4 half. From there he sprinted home for driver Eric Carlson, downing Bag Pipe Major by a length with Atomic Seelster third and Just My Kinda Guy, the lukewarm 2-1 favourite, fourth. Gilbert Garcia-Owen trains the winner of $65,775 this season for his father Gilbert Garcia-Herrera.
The meet’s leading driver, George Napolitano Jr., had three sulky successes on the card; his brother Anthony, Matt Kakaley, and Åke Svanstedt each had a brace.
(PHHA)