Stickney, IL — Driver Casey Leonard changed tactics with the Steve Searle trainee Lous Amazon in Hawthorne’s second leg of the Pop-Up series for freshman state-bred trotters and the result was a better outcome Saturday (Nov. 11) for the daughter of Lou’s Legacy.

Last week Lous Amazon raced on the front as he 4-5 favorite, went to a rather quick 57.2 half only to give way to the late charging winner Change the Tune (Travis Seekman).

This time around after Lous Amazon ($5.80) sprinted out from the three-slot Casey was content to let the 8-1 longshot Lous Enchantress (Todd Warren) get command and cut the fractions, while his horse enjoyed a two-hole journey.

Lous Amazon, the 9-5 second betting choice looked to be lacking racing room coming out of the last turn, however the winner did get clearance and went on for a three-length victory with a new career mark of 1:58.1. The 8-5 favorite Change The Tune raced third throughout but didn’t find her best stride until it was too late and did well to come on for second over a tiring Lous Enchantress.

Bombs Away: Longshot players were all smiles with the result of the first Pop-Up series second leg for juvenile Illinois bred pacer when the prohibitive 2-5 favorite Super Sharp finished off the board.

It was all longshots (1-5-4-2) providing a $770.48 payoff for a 20-cent Superrfecta wager when Hezarengade (Juan Franco) finished first at $39.80, Fox Valley Carlos was second at 8-1, the 27-1 longshot Almost Gone was third, and Fox Valley Bruin at 13-1 took fourth.

Almost Gone (Casey Leonard) paid a plentiful $93.20 to Show.

Super Shark (Travis Seekman) and Gotta Go Gram (Matt Avenatti) duked it out through the middle quarters (58.3 and 1:27). Franco had Hezarengade in the middle of the pack before taking him out on the backside and getting behind the parked-out Super Shark.

Hezarengade then proved best in the stretch for trainer Matt Mac Kenzie, posting a new career best mile of 1:55 flat for his owners Mn & D Racing of Charleston, Illinois.

Too Slow a No Go: The second colt and gelding division looked more like a training mile than a pari-mutuel race for the first three quarters.

My Buddy Steve took the field to a pedestrian 31 first quarter. With such a slow pace, driver Kyle Husted took the 4-5 favorite and first leg winner Doctor Cruise out of third and to the front, but the first half only went in a sluggish time of 1:01.2 and that was followed by a modest, to say the least, 30.1 third panel.

All the while Casey Leonard was slowly getting Mazin Blaze ($5.80) into striking position and once they straighten out for home the Terry Leonard trained two-year-old was full of pace, powering past for the win in 1:58.1, thanks to a very quick 25.3 last quarter.

Mazin Blazin knocked three full seconds off his previous fastest mile for owner and breeder Donald Laufenberg of Highland, Wisconsin.

Jamaica Patton’s filly Adalecia looks to repeat Sunday in Hawthorne’s Pop-Up series for ICF freshman pacers. Four Footed Fotos.

More in Store: Sunday’s eight-race Hawthorne card features the second round of the Pop-Up Series for ICF two-year-old pacing fillies with first leg victor Adalecia as the 2-1 morning line favorite.

Travis Seekman made his first drive behind the Jamaica Patton trained filly a successful one a week ago went she went off as the prohibitive 6-5 public’s choice and pretty much cruised to a 1:56 flat win.

Travis didn’t know much about the filly going into the race however a study of her recent past performances told him a lot.

“She had plenty of bad tracing luck,” said the Michigan native. “Broken equipment, bad trips, poor position, things like that. I wanted to give her a clean trip and see what she could do.”

Seekman did and Adalecia handily prevailed.

Travis made the winning move soon after the first quarter, going from third to first where the filly was never headed for breeder Ron Phillips (Athens, IL), who shares owner of the Time To Roll filly with Ryan Spearle (Springfield, IL) and trainer Jamaica Patton (Rochester, IL).

Adalecia leaves from the two-spot tonight two of her biggest threats alongside of her, Fox Valley Tatum (Cordarius Stewart) on the left and Dandy’s Ms Swifty (Casey Leonard) on the right.

Posts four through ten will be manned by Yankees Party (Todd Warren), Jimmylai (Kyle Husted), Delight Moon (Brandon Bates), Carli Bay (Wyatt Avenatti), Amy Mooss (Gary Rath) Time To Ryde (Kyle Wilfong) and Mattie Shark (Juan Franco).