Wilkes-Barre, PA — On Monday (July 8) and Tuesday (July 9) The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono will be hosting $330,000 worth of Pennsylvania All-Stars stakes action for 2-year-old trotters.

Monday will find six divisions of competition for males, while on Tuesday five sections of females will go behind the gate.

The Marcus Melander stable will be sending an entrant out in each of the six Monday All-Stars divisions. Five of the Melander sextet show wins in freshman qualifying races. The fastest winner is the Muscle Hill–Nalda Nof colt Hellbent For Am S, who dead-heated for win in 1:56 at The Meadowlands. Another is Rome Pays Off, the Muscle Hill–Order By Wish full brother to Marseille, who just won the Earl Beal Jr. Memorial final here at the expense of Melander’s Greenshoe and Green Manalishi S.

Also among the entrants are the well-bred North American season’s record holders for freshman males on five-eighths-mile tracks: the Andover Hall–D Liteful Hanover colt Paulie Walnuts, a double pari-mutuel winner already with a 1:56.2 mark, and the Muscle Hill–Cooler Schooner gelding Real Cool Sam, who won his purse bow in 1:56.

The 2-year-old trotting fillies have already had a leg of their pari-mutuel Pennsylvania Sire Stakes/Stallion Series already, with two of the divisional Sire Stakes winners coming to race at Pocono on Tuesday.

The fastest cut of the PaSS action conducted this past Tuesday at The Meadows was won by the Father Patrick–Behindclosedoors miss Sister Sledge, who won three straight qualifiers at Gaitway for the Ron Burke stable, the fastest in 1:55.2, then won her purse bow at her home track in 1:56.2.

Three other stakes winners racing Tuesday, representing all the levels of Pennsylvania-sired competition, are Aldabra Hanover, the Muscle Hill–Anonyme Hanover filly who also won a Sire Stakes at The Meadows; the Donato Hanover–Headintheclouds filly Path Of Totality, victorious in a Stallion Series division; and Berry Kay, a daughter of Sebastian K S–Spiceberry Hanover who struck the stakes scoreboard on the Pennsylvania fair circuit with a Sire Stakes win at Butler.