Drivers Dexter Dunn and George Napolitano Jr. won the feature races at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Friday afternoon, and red-hot Tim Tetrick won about everything else.
Dunn guided the Captaintreacherous sophomore filly Philly Hanover to her second straight victory while winning the $18,000 top-billed distaff pace in 1:51.4. The “hometown horse” had to go the first-over route, but the uncovered journey did not faze the heaviest of favourites at all as she won by 2-3/4 lengths over Modesta, who tailed her cover, for trainer Ron Coyne Jr. and the partnership of Ron Coyne Stables Inc. and Alberta's Blair Corbeil.
Napolitano was the driver behind the Rock N Roll Heaven mare Jive Dancing A, who has now won four of her last five starts after tallying in 1:52.2 in the $17,000 co-feature. The Mike Hall trainee set the pace with two moves and had second-place Privacy Hanover three lengths in arrears of her as she ran her win record to 12 for 21 this season, to the pleasure of owners Blindswitch Racing Stable.
Tetrick came out of the box smoking on Friday, winning five of the first six races (and missing a head in the other), and added a sixth victory later in the program to give him “boxcars” – a pair of sixes on the Wednesday and Friday cards (he drove at Dover on Thursday with the Matron sophomore stakes).
During the month of November Tetrick has a 65-23-16-4-.511 log just at Philly, and he has won 41 races overall in the month’s first 15 days, despite not competing on three of the days. He is second in North America in victories, first in money, and was tenth in UDRS as the day started; at Philly, Tim is tops in all three categories.
(PHHA / Harrah's Philadelphia)