Anders Bluestone added Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs to the list of Eastern tracks he has conquered in recent weeks, winning the featured Open Trot on Friday night in dominant fashion
. The race carried the night’s top purse of $60,000.
Leaving from the No. 5 post as the 9-5 favourite, Anders Bluestone, who has captured Opens at Dover and Chester already this spring, settled sixth around the first turn before launching first-over near the three-eighths-mile marker.
Even though pacesetter Flex The Muscle was allowed a soft second fraction, Anders Bluestone was able to motor by on the back stretch and clear the lead at the three-quarter pole.
With Ron Pierce in the bike for trainer William Taylor, the five-year-old stallion put on a show in the stretch, trotting away to win by five and a quarter lengths in 1:54.3. Likeabatoutahell finished second while Dont Know Chip picked up the show.
Anders Bluestone, sired by Yankee Glide and owned by William Kenneth Wood of Denton, Maryland and William Dittmar Jr. of Langhorne, Pennsylvania, won for the fifth time in 12 starts this season. The victory was the 16th of his career, and his lifetime earnings are just shy of the $300,000 mark.
(Pocono Downs)