The three $12,600 co-featured featured conditioned events at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Wednesday afternoon (Sept. 15) went to male pacer Uncontrollable, trotter Year Of The Bride, and female pacer Three Way Split.
Uncontrollable moved at the quarter to control the pace and proceeding onward to a 2-1/2-length victory in a new mark of 1:52. Tim Tetrick, the meet’s leading driver who topped the colony with three wins on the Wednesday card, drove the three-year-old Control The Moment gelding for trainer Paul Stafford and owner Thomas Ceraso Jr.
George Napolitano Jr. overcame the outside post with the Donato Hanover sophomore filly Year Of The Bride, taking a race mark of 1:57.2. Year Of The Bride was parked a long way until reaching the lead, but then she resisted giving up command, holding off the late surge of Gingertree Stakias by a head for trainer Trish Adams and owner Joseph Riad.
The Somebeachsomewhere three-year-old Three Way Split toyed with her opposition by 5-1/2 lengths as she reduced her lifetime tab to 1:52.4. Andy McCarthy drove the winner for trainer Tony Alagna and the ownership of Bottom Line Racing LLC, Brad Grant, and Marvin and Lynn Katz.
This was the last Wednesday card at Harrah’s Philadelphia until Oct. 27, as the basic schedule in early fall shifts to Thursday and Friday afternoons at 12:25 p.m. and Sundays at 12:40 p.m. The Thursday headliners at Philly are a pair of $14,400 races for developing trotters; programs are available at the PHHA website.
(PHHA/Harrah's Philadelphia)