Wilkes-Barre, PA — The Quebec-bred Kinnder Thinktwice took full advantage of a drop in company Tuesday afternoon (Sept. 2) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, making the lead early and then dominating the $11,500 featured fast-class trot in 1:53.1.
Kinnder Thinktwice was away strongly to get the early lead, but when Aardiebythehill N moved up to challenge, he broke stride for the second time in a pair of Stateside starts, giving Kinnder Thinktwice an edge he wouldn’t relinquish. Fractions of :28, :57.2, and 1:25.3 preceded a :27.3 sprint home as the Wheeling N Dealin gelding drew 3-3/4 lengths clear of pocketsitter PC Free Wheeling for driver Braxten Boyd, leading driver of the day with three wins, and trainer Susan Marshall, co-owner with John Marshall.
Trainer-driver Åke Svanstedt won with a pair of good-looking 2-year-old trotters: the Ready Cash-To Soon filly Tindra Cash S, now undefeated in two starts after lowering her mark to 1:56.1 for Suleyman Yuksel Stable Inc., and the Gimpanzee-Final Countdown colt Create Escape, who won at first asking in 1:57.2 for Order By Stable AB.
Racing at Pocono resumes at 1 p.m. Saturday (Sept. 6); there will be a carryover into the Hi-5, which is offered in the final race. Sunday racing is finished for the year at Pocono, so the next card after Saturday will occur on Monday (Sept. 8), also at 1 p.m., and that Monday performances will feature hard-knocking 2- and 3-year-olds battling for divisional bragging rights and a combined $320,000 in purse money in the Pennsylvania Stallion Series Championships. Free Pocono program pages are or will be available at www.phha.org.