Wilkes-Barre, PA – The Bettor’s Delight mare Delishka N let favored Turnthefrownaround go to the lead in front of the stands, stalked her, then came up the Pocono Pike to catch the chalk by a neck in 1:50.3 to take the $13,000 distaff pacing feature during the Sunday (July 4) twilight card at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono.

Delishka N rushed through on the inside to take the feature race on Sunday at Pocono. Curtis Salonick Photo.

Turenthefrownaround went past Delishka N on the way to a :27 quarter, then put up splits of :55 and 1:23 without great pressure. Through the stretch it was apparent that a winning streak was going to two, and the streak, and the race, went to Delishka N, now a winner 31 times in an even 100 career starts. Anthony Napolitano drove the Darren Taneyhill trainee, who now has earnings of $414,488, for D’Elegance Stable IX and Carmen Iannacone.

Aggiornamento, an altered freshman trotting son of Nuncio – Tuonela, made his career debut a memorable one with a 1:58.1 victory in an $11,700 contest for his age/sex/gait group. Driver Tom Jackson kept him in the two-hole until headstretch and then trotted on comfortably in a :28.4 last quarter to win for trainer Fred Grant and owner Russell Williams.

Aggiornamento’s contemporaries gather tomorrow afternoon at Pocono for the first stakes races for 2-year-olds this year, two $35,000 divisions of the Pennsylvania All-Stars series. Global Pandemic, a Cantab Hall – Nicole’s Promise colt who debuted with a 1:56 win in a Tompkins-Geers event at The Meadowlands, heads one division; the horse who finished third behind Global Pandemic in the Jersey race, Keg Stand, is the favorite in the other cut.