Chester, PA — The durable Explosive Matter gelding Scirocco Rob exceeded $700,000 in career earnings with a 1:54 win in Thursday’s (Sept. 1) $16,200 fast-class trotting feature at Harrah’s Philadelphia.

Corey Callahan left hard with Scirocco Rob to clear a fast-starting Dee’s Red Delicous, forcing favored JL Cruze to tuck during the :27 opener. Scirocco Rob then got a big breather to the half in :56.4 and resisted any further challenges through a 1:25.1 three-quarters and through the stretch, with the biggest one coming from pocket sitter Dee’s Red Delicous, who came up a half length shy.

Mark Silva trains Scirocco Rob for Kathleen Whitaker.

The Creatine gelding Take All Comers, a $100,000 winner in each of his three years of racing, quarter-moved past a :27.2 initial split for driver Tim Tetrick and trainer Jim Campbell, then posted middle splits of :56.4 and 1:24.2 en route to a 1:53 triumph in the $15,300 sub-featured trot for Scott Farber’s Runthetable Stables. Pocket sitter Star Razor was 4-3/4 lengths back at the finish behind the winner of $515,921, a half-brother to Next Level Stuff.

Tetrick, the meet’s leading driver who got his 13,000th lifetime victory early on the Wednesday card at Philly, is already at 13,008 wins after following up on Wednesday’s five-win performance with four more visits to the winner’s circle.

Test Of Faith, the 2021 Harness Horse of the Year, makes her first ever purse start at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Friday (Sept. 2), being assigned the outside in a field of six in a $22,500 fast-class distaff handicap pace. On Sunday, the finest 2-year-olds in the Keystone State will compete in their Pennsylvania Sire Stakes championships and consolation events; the card, worth $1.3 million in all, also includes a $40,000 Invitational featuring Allywag Hanover, Ruthless Hanover and American Dealer N. Friday’s racing begins at 12:25 p.m. while Sunday’s racing will get underway at 12:40 p.m. Program pages are available on the PHHA website.