Dial Or Nodial notched his first victory of the season and put an end to Golden Receiver's win streak with a sub-1:50 score in the $30,000 Winner's Over Pace featured on Friday afternoon's card of harness racing at Harrah's Philadelphia.
Tim Tetrick fired Golden Receiver to command from the outside post seven and the Presidential Series champion, who was riding a six race win streak to start the season, carved out fractions of :27.1, :55.3 and 1:22.3. As the heavy 1-5 favourite raced down the backstretch, David Miller sent Dial Or Nodial first up from third and swept to command just past the third quarter mark. The millionaire pacer then drew off around the turn en route to a 1:49.4 triumph. Pocket-sitter Fred And Ginger, driven by Yannick Gingras, came on for second, finishing one length behind the winner, while Flem N Em N and Corey Callahan edged out Golden Receiver to show.
Dial Or Nodial, a third-place finisher in the Presidential early this year at the Meadowlands, paid $17 to win as the 7-1 third choice.
The seven-year-old Western Ideal gelding was making his fifth start of the season and first start this year at Harrah's Philadelphia, where he scored all six of his 2012 wins including the $150,000 Pennsylvania Harness Horsemen's Association Invitational during the track's Super Stakes card.
Jim Campbell trains the 29-time career winner, who has banked over $1.5 million in purses lifetime, for the Siegel family's Fashion Farms.