Wilkes-Barre, PA — Concise capped a sweep of the Bobby Weiss Trotting Series for 3-year-old fillies with a lifetime-best 1:54.3 score in the $50,000 final on Tuesday afternoon (April 28) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.
Todd McCarthy drove the daughter of Gimpanzee, and after letting Aviatrix Blue Chip take the field to the quarter in :27.3, the pair retook command and got a breather to a :58 half. From that point, there was no relaxing, as I Take The Care challenged Concise to a 1:25.1 three-quarters, and when that foe faded, Aviatrix Blue Chip came on to try the favorite again, but she fell short by a length/
Trained by Nik Drennan for his Drennan Stable LLC, which shares ownership with Joseph Davino and Brad Shackman, Concise was the only four-time winner among all the divisions of the Weiss. She has won five of six lifetime trips to the gate.
In the $20,000 Weiss consolation for trotting fillies, the E L Titan miss B Eyelash also proved worthy of being backed as the favorite, winning by 3-1/2 lengths and posting a lifetime mark of 1:56.3 for driver Braxten Boyd, trainer Jenny Melander, and Exceed Stables LLC.
Pacing fillies also raced their $50,000 Weiss final on the Tuesday card, with no entrant having two preliminary wins but six of the eight having won one preliminary round. Posting her second Weiss success at the optimal moment was the American Ideal filly American Cheese, who posted a swift 1:51.1 lifetime best while winning as the second choice.
Like his filly, driver Scott Zeron showed good Weiss timing as American Cheese was his only drive at Pocono on Tuesday. He worked out a two-hole trip behind fractions of :27, :56.2 and 1:23.2 behind Vanna By The River, then headed to the Pocono Pike and beat out the pacesetter by a half length with favored Sicerto another half length back.
Jared Bako conditions the winner, now three-for-five this season for Blue Chip Bloodstock Inc. and Philip Steinberg.
Tyler Buter, top Pocono driver in 2025 and again so far in 2026, won the last race to take Tuesday’s honors with three wins, including two sent out by the day’s only doubling trainer, John Butenschoen. Also visiting Victory Lane twice were drivers Braxten Boyd, Todd McCarthy, and George Napolitano Jr.
Thoroughbred racing’s most famous race, the Kentucky Derby, will be preceded this Saturday (May 2) by a 1 p.m. card of live Standardbred racing at Pocono. Free program pages for Pocono are or will be available at www.phha.org.