The “glamour boys” division in harness racing, the three-year-old pacers, will be featured on Monday (May 30) afternoon at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, in second preliminary round action in their Sire Stakes and Stallion Series program, with $138,758 to divided among three Sire Stakes divisions and four $20,000 cuts of Stallion Series racing.
Neither of the first round PaSS winners, All Or Nothing and Greatest Ending, will be making the journey to the mountains, but returning will be all three winners in recent Pennsylvania All-Stars action at Pocono. Five of the top nine rankings in the “Road to the Meadowlands Pace” are also among the Monday combatants.
The tenth race division is probably the “feature” division, as it matches up two of the All-Stars divisional winners. The fastest All-Stars winner, Night Hawk, will start from post three for driver David Miller, trainer Brian Brown, and the ownership of Leeman Lombardo Stable, Joe Sbrocco, In The Gym Partners, and Acadia Farms. His victory here came in 1:50, with a wicked last quarter of :26.1, giving the Betting Line colt two wins on the year and a Sire Stakes second in three starts.
Just outside of him behind the starting gate will be the Always B Miki gelding Mad Max Hanover, third in his Sire Stakes cut and then following up with a 1:50.3 victory in the All-Stars for driver Tim Tetrick, trainer Jake Leamon, and owner Marvin Rounick. Night Hawk and Mad Max Hanover rank as the first and second favourites, respectively, in this PaSS division.
The morning line favourite in the third division (Race 3) will be Six Feet Apart, another from the stable of Brian Brown, who was just a neck behind Mad Max Hanover in the All-Stars. David Miller will drive Six Feet Apart from post three for the ownership of Michael Robinson, Robert Mondillo, David Meola, and Rich Lombardo Racing LLC.
The early program choice in the third division (Race 12) is Market Based, who won in 1:50.2 in the All-Stars. Dexter Dunn will have the lines behind the Sweet Lou colt as they start from post three for trainer Nancy Takter and owners Chuck Pompey, Edwin Gold, and H&M Taylor Stable.
All three of the Stallion Series first prelim winners – Code Cracker, Dancin Sancho, and World For Two – will battle other developing hopefuls in Monday’s Stallion Series action.
First post for the Memorial Day Monday card at Pocono will be 1:30 p.m. Program pages will be available at the PHHA website.
(PHHA / Pocono)