The veteran Crazed gelding Crazy About Pat pushed his lifetime earnings to $833,750 with a 1:54.2 victory in the $18,000 featured trot at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Thursday afternoon (Nov. 1).
Eric Carlson settled in second early with the winner behind fast-starting Ameliosi, then made a move to the top by the :27.4 first quarter. Middle splits of :57 and 1:25.2 were hung up, and when no outer tier action materialized, Ameliosi proved to be the main competition, but Crazy About Pat kept him at bay by a solid 2-1/4 lengths.
Gilbert Garcia-Herrera owns and trains Crazy About Pat. Garcia-Herrera is within the top six trainers at Yonkers, Pocono and Harrah’s Philadelphia, where he sits second in the table to Ron Burke. He is also sixth in North America, with Crazy About Pat the 200th winner from the barn this year.
There were a pair of $14,500 trotting co-features on the card, with Carlson also victorious in one of them, handling the Cams Rocket sophomore gelding What That Is in a 1:56.1 triumph. One of Maryland’s top colts the last couple years, What That Is swung wide from third-over and chased down a game Le Tissier, who had taken over in the stretch after going first-over, by three parts of a length for trainer Kerry Welty and owner Brian Emerson.
In the other co-feature, 2017 Pennsylvania Sire Stakes champion Fashionwoodchopper got the first win of his sophomore campaign, going to the lead near the quarter for driver David Miller and then holding off potential pocket rocket Tymal Reign by three-quarters of a length to win in 1:55. Despite the paucity of seasonal successes, the Donato Hall colt has still banked $106,370 this year and $363,259 lifetime for trainer Jim Campbell and Fashion Farms LLC.
Post time at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Friday will be 2:05 p.m.
(PHHA/Harrah’s Philadelphia)