Wilkes-Barre, PA — Flash Move, who ended his 2023 campaign with a lifetime-best 1:50 victory in the Pennsylvania Stallion Series Championship for 3-year-old male pacers, shaved a fifth of a second off his career standard in Tuesday’s (May 21) $15,000 pacing feature at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.

Andy McCarthy got the Heston Blue Chip gelding away fourth behind a :26.2 first-quarter duel between Strengthfromabove and Alabamajamma. After Alabamajamma cleared and hit the half in :54.3, Flash Move angled first-over and ground forward to battle for the lead past the 1:22.1 three-quarters. The two continued their duel entering the stretch, and then Strengthfromabove worked to a short lead up the Pocono Pike just past mid-stretch. But Flash Move continued to give his best and outpaced Strengthfromabove by a neck in 1:49.4, with Alabamajamma holding for third, another 1-1/2 lengths back.

Flash Move held off the inside move of Strengthfromabove to win Tuesday’s pacing feature at Pocono. Curtis Salonick photo.

Trainer Robert Cleary owns Flash Move in partnership with Royal Wire Products Inc.

Tyler Buter and Anthony Napolitano guided three winners apiece.

Racing at Pocono Downs resumes with a Saturday (May 24) program at 1 p.m.; the current schedule finds racing at the mountain oval on Saturdays, Mondays, and Tuesdays at 1 p.m. and Sundays at 6 p.m. Free Pocono programs are available at www.phha.org.