Wilkes-Barre, PA — Prominent Pocono barns produced sweeps in the action for each sex of 2-year-old pacers during the Wednesday (June 21) early session at The Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.

Travis Alexander sent out the three winners in the colt division, the fastest of whom was the Huntsville–Apple Delight colt Avenger Force, who went wire-to-wire in 1:55.3, with back fractions of :56.4–:27. Matt Kakaley drove the colt for Fiddler’s Creek Stables.

Jim Pantaleano drove the other two winners for the barn: the American Ideal–Arielle Lynn colt Howlenthehills, home in 1:55.4, and the Huntsville–Queen Of Darkness colt Vampire Blue Chip, a winner in 1:56.4.

On the pacing filly side, driver Marcus Miller, trainer Erv Miller, and owner Douglas Overhiser had a sweep of the two cuts. The faster was the Sweet Lou–Some Fancy Filly miss Asweetbeachhere, who made an early move and dashed home first in 1:55-:56.4-:27.2; Overhiser shares with Andray Farm the other Miller winner, the Stay Hungry–Mother Of Art distaff Shezahungrygigi, winning her second straight start, here in 1:56.2.

D R. Ackerman owns, trains, and drives the fastest trotting male winner, Mr Grant, an altered son of Tactical Landing–Flos Conch Shack, who recorded his second win, here in 1:59-:57.3-:28.1.

Driver Kakaley and trainer Jenny Melander were the brain trust behind the two other winners in this section: Going Green (Greenshoe–Majestic Lexi, 2:00.1) and Nottingham (E L Titan–Lady Marian, 2:01.1).

Trainer/driver Todd Schadel, also co-owner with Jim Simpson, got the morning session off with the second straight winning charted line for the International Moni–Janderson filly Jakarta Hanover, here going wire-to-wire in 1:58.4-:58.2-:28.3.

The other 2-year-old winning on the day was her contemporary Sweet Secret (Six Pack–Getinonthesecret, 2:03.3) for trainer/driver Charlie Norris.

As we noted in the Philly freshman report yesterday, this will likely be the last of the morning session 2-year-old reports, as overnight races are filling daily, the PA fair stakes season begins Saturday, and the pari-mutuel stakes a week after that. We will be reading about many quality 2-year-olds in the upcoming weeks.

Pocono qualifiers can be seen on the PHHA’s website, www.phha.org. We remind you that drivers may not be wearing their colors driving in these non-purse sessions.