Brett Beckwith won six races on Saturday, March 21 at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, combining with trainer Enrico Robinson for the bulk of his victories on a day that produced mid-single-digit temperatures and a stretch tailwind.
There were three divisions of a $23,973 conditioned class for developing horses featured on the 14-race card, one for pacers and two for trotters, and Beckwith took one on each gait. The featured pace proved one of four successful team-ups between Beckwith and the combine of Robinson and owner Pollack Racing LLC, as the Captaintreacherous-Lady Dale gelding Lochlan Hanover charged home from third-over to win by a neck over Captain Luffy (Colin Kelly) in a new mark of 1:51.3. Keayang Kamikaze A (Jim Marohn Jr.) was third. The win was Lochlan Hanover's eighth in 36 lifetime outings.
The last of the wins for Team Beckwith/Robinson/Pollack Racing, who also took the second race with Arden Messi N and seventh with Lovedbythemasses, came in the pacing division of a $20,548 conditioned event. Hunting Zone, an altered son of Huntsville-Smart Zone, kept control from the pole throughout, then defeated pocket-sitting favourite Borninlockdown Gb (Tyler Buter) by a head in a 1:50.3 mile. Five horses were separated by less than a length at the finish, with Federer (Jordan Stratton) third by a head. Robinson has won 20 races this season, already matching his career-high total from last year, with six victories at Pocono in 2026.
Beckwith recorded one of his feature scores with Shoresy, who won his fifth race in a row and fourth straight at Pocono after making an early move to command, looking vulnerable on the far turn, and then drawing off through the stretch to score by 2-1/2 lengths in 1:55.2. Messenger Hanover (Tyler Buter) was second over Bank On Me (Jordan Stratton). The winning son of Cantab Hall-Hs Carry On, owned by Timothy Betts and Shanamphilankilou Inc., has won all of his quintet of starts since entering the barn of the meet’s leading trainer, Per Engblom, a doubler on the day. He is now 10-for-28 lifetime.
Beckwith also won the opener for trainer Darren Taneyhill, steering Big Bang Bang to victory to kick off a triple for the conditioner. The driver, who has raced at Pocono on Saturdays only so far this year, vaulted up to a tie for fourth in the local standings with 17 wins. He is on top of the win columns at The Meadowlands and Saratoga, and his six-pack on Saturday was the largest haul for any driver during a single 2026 program at Pocono.
Two of driver Anthony Napolitano's Saturday wins were part of Taneyhill’s winning trio, including Macadoodledoo, who changed shedrows after a claim by owner Mark Jakubik last week, stepped up in class, and overcame the outside post in the fastest mile of the day, 1:50.2. Taneyhill moved up to second in the trainers' table with 10 scores at the mountain oval.
The other $23,973 diamondgaited headliner went to the Muscle Mass-Royal Malinda gelding Royal Comet, who lowered his mark to 1:53.4 for driver Colin Kelly and trainer Tony Alagna. He scored by a length over Scudo Hanover (Braxten Boyd), with Te Amo Lindy (George Napolitano Jr.) third. Royal Comet's owner, former basketball star Sam Bowie, grew up some 90 miles away from Pocono in Lebanon, Pa. Royal Comet was the top trotter in his class in Iowa at two and three and is continuing his successful ways: he has won 18 of 33 lifetime starts, and has hit the board in all but one of his outings.
Reinsman Tyler Buter won the $20,548 conditioned trot with the Mosaique Face-Babsane Face gelding Aquarius Face S, who rallied up the inside to succeed by a half-length over Dribbling Bi (Dan Dube) in 1:53.4, a lifetime best, giving trainer Engblom his second victory. Cassius Hanover (Jim Pantaleano) was third. Engblom Farm LLC co-owns the winner with Ellerstromgruppen AB. Buter needed the win to retain his spot atop the Pocono standings, as Anthony Napolitano won three times on the card to leave him just one off Buter’s total at day’s end.
Racing at Pocono resumes on Monday at 1 p.m., with distaff pacers in the highlight races.
(With files from PHHA/Pocono; photo of Lochlan Hanover winning on March 21)