from the PHHA/Pocono

Wilkes-Barre, PA — The final Pennsylvania All-Stars event of the season at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono will take place this Tuesday evening (July 17), as four divisions of 2-year-old pacing fillies will go for $30,000 each.

The powerful Ron Burke Stable will send out nine fillies in the All-Stars contests, which are slotted for races one, three, four, and five. Eight of them raced in the three divisions of the first leg of their PA Sire Stakes action at The Meadows on July 7, with Burke trainees emerging with two wins, a second, and two thirds. The ninth Burke horse here was second in a Stallion Series race and earned a promotion for this contest.

One of the winners was the Sweet Lou–Great Memories miss Warrawee Beaut, who will begin from the outside post six in the night’s third race. Warrawee Beaut followed up on two straight Gaitway wins with a 1:52.4 victory in her Sire Stakes division, which equaled the national season’s mark of another Sires winner, Bestseller Hanover, who bypassed Tuesday’s contest. Yannick Gingras is scheduled to drive the impressive miss, who came her last quarter in :26.4 at The Meadows.

Burke’s other Sire Stakes winner, She’s Allright, went just a tick slower at 1:53 in her triumph. Another daughter of Sweet Lou, She’s Allright begins in the fourth race division from post five, with Gingras also listed for the steer. Two 1:53.3 winners in overnight action at Harrah’s Philadelphia are among her challengers: Stonebridge Soul (post two for the father/son team of trainer Erv and driver Marcus Miller) and Sweeter Lulu (post seven, the outside, for trainer/driver Stacy Chiodo).

Two Stallion Series winners at The Meadows will start from the outermost posts in the first race field of seven, with Another Beach Day just inside of Michelon’s Filly. Corey Callahan is slated to handle Another Beach Day, a 1:55 winner, for trainer Mike Hall. Michelon’s Filly, who went a tick faster in winning her Stallion Series cut, has the backing of the Erv and Marcus Miller team. The latter is also the filly who edged the Burke promotee, Typhoon.

The fifth race division features two horses who were second in the Sires races. Sylph Hanover, a Burke trainee, goes to the start from post four, with Matt Kakaley listed, while Art Lecture will have to negotiate the outside post seven for driver Brett Miller and trainer Jake Leamon. Also in this division is Blue Ivy (post two, driver Tyler Buter, trainer Chris Oakes), whose lone charted line was a 1:55.4 win here at Pocono.