Chester, PA — The evergreen 11-year-old JL Cruze recorded his 49th career victory with a decisive 1:52 score in the $16,200 featured fast-class trot at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Thursday afternoon (July 7).

Tim Tetrick pulled the pocket with JL Cruze at the :27.2 quarter to step around Rock Of Cashel, and those two maintained the top positions through middle splits of :56 and 1:24. The victorious Crazed gelding, who bumped his lifetime earnings to $1,727,092, drew three lengths clear at the end for trainer Eric Ell and owners Ken Wood, William Dittmar Jr., and Stephen Iaquinta.

The royally-bred Bee Forever won his way out of the $15,300 “non-winners of eight races” class, keeping his 2022 record unblemished after five starts while lowering his lifetime mark to 1:53.2. At 2-5, the 4-year-old Muscle Hill-Bee A Magician gelding got a slow start, but driver Dexter Dunn let him find his rhythm, and Bee Forever trotted his own last three-quarters in 1:25.1 — most of it two- and three-wide — as he drew clear late for trainer Nifty Norman and owners Melvin Hartman, Herb Liverman and David McDuffee.

Tetrick drove three winners on the card.

The schedule at Harrah’s Philadelphia for the remainder of this racing week is Friday (July 8) at 12:25 p.m. and Sunday (July 10) at 12:40 p.m. Program pages are or will be available on the PHHA website.