Wilkes-Barre, PA — Sire Stay Hungry swept both divisions of the $162,620 Pennsylvania Sire Stakes for 2-year-old pacing colts at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, with winners Lyons Surfing and Annapolis Hanover clocking identical 1:51.3 miles over sloppy going.

Lyons Surfing capped a big stakes night for driver Tim Tetrick and trainer Jim King Jr. when he reached for a nose victory in one division. Lyons Surfing tucked fifth as favorite Bugaboo Lou made the early lead by the :27 quarter, yielded to previous PASS winner Ken Hanover, then reclaimed the lead before a :56 half. Lyons Surfing came first-over and got close to the lead by the 1:23.4 three-quarters before working to defeat the Pocono Pike-shooting Ken Hanover by the tightest of margins. Bugaboo Lou finished third, three-quarters of a length back, having completed the race with broken equipment.

Lyons Surfing (#7) narrowly defeated Ken Hanover in Pennsylvania Sire Stakes action Sunday at Pocono. Curtis Salonick photo.

The win was the second straight for Lyons Surfing, after a victory in a division of the Arden Downs on Adios Day. The freshman, whose dam is Surfside Sexy, is owned by Threelyonsracing.

The other division matched Ervin Hanover, the only two-time winner in the first two PASS legs, against two other previous Sires winners. One of them, the gelding Annapolis Hanover (dam All Night Long), ultimately proved victorious, winning his fourth straight race, a streak that now includes two pari-mutuel Sire Stakes legs. Annapolis Hanover was three-wide through a hot :26.4 quarter before following Fulton on to the lead under David Miller’s guidance before a half in :55.3. The swift early action took some steam out of his two early foes, but Annapolis Hanover stayed on and withstood the first-over bid of Stay Grounded through and past the 1:23.4 three-quarters and prevailed by 1-1/4 lengths.

Annapolis Hanover now has six wins in eight starts. He is owned and trained by Mitchell York, a retired Pennsylvania State Trooper who in the afternoon won a stakes race at the nearby Honesdale (Pa.) Fair.

Tetrick won three of the five $20,000 companion Stallion Series races, including guiding another Stay Hungry gelding, Dempsey Hanover, to a 1:55.2 victory. Two other Stallion Series divisions fell to Team Tetrick/King with sons of Captaintreacherous: the gelding Secret Captain (1:53.2) and the colt Lyons Spirit (1:55.1). Quixote (1:52.4) and Just Bet It All (1:54) took the other splits.

Racing returns to Pocono on Monday (Aug. 8) and Tuesday (Aug. 9) at 1:30 p.m.; program pages are available on the PHHA website.