Wilkes-Barre, PA — After being forced to cancel its scheduled Monday (Feb. 23) program due to weather, Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania completed the bookends of its racing week on Tuesday (Feb. 24).
The $15,500 trotting feature had long shots galore getting the highest checks. Moni Multiplier, second at 61-1 in her 2026 bow, was bet down to 8-1 this week and won in 1:58.4 while defeating Vanguard (25-1), Brother Love (14-1) and Melissa P (39-1) and forcing a superfecta carryover.
Now 50% in the win column since teaming with trainer Neal Ehrhart and owners JMF Racing LLC, Moni Multiplier was given a patient steer by driver Jim Pantaleano. The International Moni mare sat second-over, was kept in the two-path by Pantaleano on the far bend when favored Net Weight launched wide off her back, and found clearance from the blind switch after the sweeper broke and then herself closed to get the win very late.
Tyler Buter, winner of the 2025 driving dash title at Pocono, showed he was still a major danger for this campaign as he won five times. Braxten Boyd won three races while George Napolitano Jr. and Ridge Warren doubled. On the training side, defending Pocono kingpin Ron Burke had both his winners driven by Buter; the other doubling conditioner, Cote Keim, had his victorious charges guided once by Buter and once by Napolitano.
The excellent early-season racing at Pocono will continue this coming week, with a trio of $27,500 contests slated: fast-class events for both trotters and pacers on Saturday (Feb. 28), and a handicap contest for distaff pacers on Monday (March 2). The next Pocono card will be Saturday at 1 p.m., and in addition to the aforementioned races will contain four $17,000 divisions of the third and final preliminary leg of the Game Of Claims Pacing Series, with no horse base-tagged for $30,000 this week able to post wins in the five divisions of both of the first two legs.
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