Wilkes-Barre, PA — In wet weather and over a worsening surface Sunday night (May 26) at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, Millies Possesion remained undefeated in her career and after three Pennsylvania Sire Stakes preliminaries for 3-year-old trotting fillies, triumphing in one of three $55,168 divisions.

Millies Possesion showed a great deal of fortitude in her 1:56.3 tally. Curtis Salonick photo.

Millies Possesion showed a great deal of fortitude in her 1:56.3 tally. She tucked fourth before the :29 quarter, then looked to make a quarter move for driver Dexter Dunn but was beaten to the punch by Firedbylindie, who moved from third to take the field to the half in :59.2. Dunn had the winning daughter of Possess The Will going again uncovered by the five-eighths and up to challenge by the 1:28.2 three-quarters, with $480,000 yearling and race favorite Beautiful Sin on her back.

Through the stretch Millies Possesion showed her talent, closing into a :28.1 last quarter to win by 1-1/4 lengths over Beautiful Sin, who was moving very well late. She in turn was a length ahead of Firedbylindie.

Now perfect after four career starts, all this year, Millies Possesion is trained by Jim Campbell and pushed her bankroll to $76,184 for Fashion Farms.

Napolitano’s Sire Stakes win was in signature front-end fashion with the Muscle Hill filly Asiago, who now has two wins and a close fourth in the Sire Stakes after this 1:55.2 triumph. Fractions of :29.1, :58.2, and 1:27 were posted by Asiago, with pocket-sitting Fade Into You trying to rally but falling short by 1-1/4 lengths, with The Ice Dutchess, a $320,000 yearling and race favorite, coming third-over from last and moving strongly late to be another three-quarters of a length back.

Per Engblom conditions Asiago, a winner of $163,626 for Marvin Katz, Sam Goldband, Al Libfeld, and Black Horse Racing.

A sweep of second choices in the Sire Stakes was completed by the Explosive Matter miss Nomo Volo, who notched her first seasonal tally in 1:56. Trainer/driver Jeff Gregory had Nomo Volo in front at every pole, with fractions of :27.4, :58.3, and 1:27.1 preceding the neck victory over Navarone Hanover, last year’s Stallion Series champion. Favorite Swizzle Sticks had to make two moves and wound up fifth. Nomo Volo now has lifetime earnings of $129,937 for Jesmeral Stable.

Morning line favorite Sonnet Grace was scratched sick.

The four $20,000 Stallion Series sections were divided equally between drivers George Napolitano Jr. and Tyler Buter.

Napolitano was behind the Cantab Hall filly Keystone Abbey, who became the only three-time Stallion Series winner after leading at every call in 1:57.1 for trainer Chris Beaver, who is also co-owner with Donald Robinson, Martin Yoder, and R.B.H. Ventures Inc.

Napolitano’s other stakes win came with the Explosive Matter miss Matterlei, who went to the lead in front of the grandstand and went on to a new mark of 1:57.4 for trainer Trond Smedshammer and Purple Haze Stable.

Tyler Buter’s first visit to the Stallion Series winner’s circle was with the Donato Hanover filly Jezzys Legacy, who sported a second in the Sire Stakes but was lowered a notch by trainer Ray Schnittker and got a popular victory in 1:57.2 for co-owners Schnittker, Little E, Ted Gewertz, and Mary Kinsey Arnold.

Buter came back with another daughter of Donato Hanover, Hanovers Best, playing pocket rocket to perfection and then holding off Spring In Paris, who had won her first two Stallion Series starts, in 1:57.1 for trainer Rob Harmon and the partnership of Lester Gelardi Jr., Anthony Passafaro, Seafood Delight Stable, and Harmon Racing Stable Inc.