The Monday (April 10) afternoon card at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania featured five divisions of two ongoing series: $20,000 a section for the first preliminary of the Bobby Weiss Series for three-year-old pacing fillies, and five $9000 cuts of the second prelim of the Game Of Claims Pacing Series for horses who raced with a base tag of $12,500.
None Bettor A and American Courage, two free-for-all pacers entered in Monday’s first leg of the MGM Borgata Series at Yonkers Raceway, got in useful final workouts on Wednesday morning at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.
A :52 front half teed up Combustion for an off-the-pace swing to the lead in the stretch that successfully landed him in front at the finish of a 1:49.3 mile in the third of three divisions of the $299,100 Tall Dark Stranger International Stallion Stakes for freshman pacing colts and geldings.