The Somebeachsomewhere gelding Dreams Beachboy made it two straight over The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono’s oval, and four wins while not missing the board in his last eight starts, with a 1:51.2 victory in the $21,500 pacing feature on Saturday, Nov. 3.
The track’s leading driver George Napolitano Jr. worked out a pocket trip behind pacesetter Sprinter N, who paced to the quarter in :26.4 and slowed to the half in :56.2. But in the backstretch first-over Music Is Art pressured the leader into a 1:23.3 third quarter.
Dreams Beachboy stalked the battlers until rallying late to win by a half-length over Music Is Art with Sprinter N another neck back in third. Trainer Deborah Burnet is two-for-two at Pocono this year, both with the victorious winner of $242,784, for Crawford Farms Racing.
George Napolitano Jr.’s brother Anthony won the co-featured $16,000 claiming handicap pace, the night’s opener, with the Bettors Delight gelding The Onlyest One in 1:52.4. The winner visited the winner's circle for the 12th time this season after backing out to follow cover from his third-in position, then catching pacesetting That Man Of Mine and pocket-sitting Wick N by a neck, both of whom dead-heated for second. Laurie Patistas owns and trains The Onlyest One.
There are only six more cards left in the 2018 Pocono Downs season: the following Sundays, Tuesdays, and Saturdays, as Mondays will go dark for the remaining seasonal action, which concludes Nov. 17.
(WIth files from PHHA)