As some of Canada's top horses were making their return during Mohawk Racetrack's qualifying session Thursday morning, 2010 Meadowlands Pace winner One More Laugh was making his seasonal charted debut during qualifying races at Pocono Downs
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With his co-owning trainer, Ray Schnittker, at his lines, One More Laugh stepped onto Pocono's five-eighths mile oval to contest the four race of the 12-dash qualifying session.
Schnittker and the career winner of over $2.1 million in purses started from Post 5 and went on to record a romping 13 and a half-length victory in 1:53.
The four-year-old McArdle gelding cut the fractions in :28, :56.2 and 1:24 before coming home in 29 seconds over the off going. The 'sloppy' track was given a two-second allowance in time by the presiding judges.
Owned by Schnittker along with Creative Racing Stbl Co. of Central Islip, New York and Jerry Silva of Long Beach, New York, One More Laugh has a career slate of 18-8-1 from 32 starts. He took his mark of 1:47.4 when he captured the Meadowlands Pace last year.