Wilkes-Barre, PA — Despite wet conditions on Tuesday afternoon (Aug. 30) at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, Stonebridge Karis lowered his record over four seconds to 1:51 in winning one of three $13,000 pacing features.

Jim Pantaleano pointed the 3-year-old Sweet Lou gelding frontward and the pair were never headed, winning by five lengths. The one sad part for trainer Herbert Lux III and owners Carver Racing LLC and William Mullin is that the horse was claimed for $33,000 out of the giant victory.

Sophomore Stonebridge Karis impressed in his curtain call for trainer Herbert Lux III, winning a co-featured conditioned claiming event on Tuesday at Pocono in an dazzling 1:51. Curtis Salonick photo.

Anthony Napolitano, who won five races on the card, took the other two pacing cuts. Napolitano used the uncovered route to get the Bettor’s Delight sophomore gelding Team Mac to take a new record of 1:52.3 for trainer Victoria Stratton and the ownership of VIP Internet Stable LLC and Stratton Stable Inc. He then captured the other pacing headliner in the heaviest rain of the day with the American Ideal gelding My Boy Jack in 1:55.4 for trainer Matias Ruiz and owner José Cervantes.

There were also a pair of $12,500 top trots, both taken by first-over horses: the Credit Winner gelding Credit Con, who took a new mark of 1:55.1 for driver Tyler Buter, trainer Todd Buter and owner Lee Sitto; and the Muscle Hill gelding Muscle Dynasty, who added hopples and promptly rallied from off a hot pace to also take a new speed badge, 1:55.2, for driver Marcus Miller, trainer Erv Miller and owner Douglas Overhiser.

When racing at Pocono resumes on Saturday (Sept. 3), it will mark the last week before the end of the four-card-a-week format Pocono has been using much of the spring and summer. Racing will be conducted over the Labor Day holiday weekend on Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. and Sunday at 5 p.m., with the highlight of the upcoming week being the $320,000 Pennsylvania Stallion Series Championship on the Labor Day Monday (Sept. 5) card. Afterward, the track will start racing again on Sept. 12, with a schedule of Saturday, Monday and Tuesday afternoons at 1:30 p.m. Program pages for all Pocono races are or will be available on the PHHA website.