The final Pennsylvania All-Stars event of the season at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono will take place this Tuesday evening (July 17), as four $30,000 divisions of two-year-old pacing fillies will head postward.
The powerful Burke Brigade will send out no fewer than nine fillies during the Tuesday All-Stars dashes, which have been slotted as Race 1, 3, 4, and 5. Eight of the Burke horses raced in the first leg of the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes which took place at the Meadows on July 7 (the Burke trainees emerged with two wins, a second, and two thirds).
One of the winners was the Sweet Lou – Great Memories miss Warrawee Ubeaut, who will begin from the outside Post 6 in the night’s third race. Warrawee Ubeaut followed up on two straight Gaitway wins with a 1:52.4 victory in her sire stakes division, which equalled the national season’s mark of another sires stakes winner, Bestseller Hanover, who bypassed Tuesday’s contest. Yannick Gingras is scheduled to drive the impressive miss, who came her last quarter in :26.4 at the Meadows.
Burke’s other sire stakes winner, Shes Allright, went just ‘a tick’ slower (1:53) in her triumph. Another daughter of Sweet Lou, Shes Allright will begin in the fourth-race division from Post 5 (Gingras is also listed to drive). Two 1:53.3 winners in overnight action at Harrah’s Philadelphia are among her challengers: Stonebridge Soul (Post 2 for the father/son team of trainer Erv and driver Marcus Miller) and Sweeter Lulu (Post 7, the outside, for trainer/driver Stacy Chiodo).
Two Stallion Series winners at the Meadows will start from the outermost posts in the first-race field of seven, with Another Beach Day just inside of Michelons Filly. Corey Callahan is slated to handle Another Beach Day, a 1:55 winner, for trainer Mike Hall; Michelons Filly, who went a tick faster in winning her Stallion Series cut, has the backing of the Erv and Marcus Miller team.
The fifth-race division will feature two horses that were second in the sire stakes races. Sylph Hanover, a Burke trainee, will start from Post 4 (Matt Kakaley has been listed). Art Lecture will have to negotiate the outside Post 7 for driver Brett Miller and trainer Jake Leamon. Also in this division is Blue Ivy (Post 2, driver Tyler Buter, trainer Chris Oakes), whose lone charted line was a 1:55.4 win at Pocono.
(With files from PHHA / Pocono)