Matt Kakaley closed out a storybook week at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania one in which he went over $100 million USD in career earnings by notching his 6,000th driving victory with Willing Hanover in the trotting division of three $15,000 conditioned featured races on Tuesday afternoon.
The classy mare P L Notsonice controlled the pace in Monday afternoon’s $12,500 featured trot at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, drawing clear late to stop the timer in 1:53.
One is a $1 million earning international star and the other is very much a home-grown champion. But both Ake Svanstedt-trained Alrajah One IT and Incommunicado will be starting in the $250,000 Spirit of Massachusetts Trot at Plainridge Park on Sunday afternoon (July 24).
The Candyman Can and Curious Cortez both continued their strong winning form as they captured the two $16,500 divisions of the top claiming handicap pace on Saturday (Sept. 18) at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono.
Coming off of a layoff of 26 days upon changing over to the Steven Brabrook stable, the Explosive Matter gelding Sortie was dismissed at 26-1 in the $12,800 featured claiming handicap trot on Monday afternoon (May 24) at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, but he roared past embattled leaders late to get the job done in 1:53.3.
Favoured Thisisshe made the lead before the :27 quarter but then yielded to Stop Resistin, who got a relatively soft half of :56.2 before opening some ground to a 1:24.2 three-quarters. Thisisshe was being left behind in the pocket, first-over Clarion Hall was not making much of an inroad – and the longshot board on the board was just moving outside.