Wilkes-Barre, PA — The Sunday (Aug. 25) card at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono will feature the fourth and final preliminary round for Pennsylvania-sired 2-year-old trotting colts with two divisions of the $184,018 PA Sire Stakes, along with four divisions of the PA Stallion Series competition.

Real Cool Sam is undefeated in six career starts and has earnings of $248,134. Chris Gooden photo.

No horse was victorious in all of the first three rounds of the Sire Stakes, but the tenth race second division, which on paper figures to be a slightly-tougher cut, features a horse who was victorious in both his PaSS starts — the double world champion Real Cool Sam, who starts from post four for driver David Miller, trainer Jim Campbell, and owner/breeder Fashion Farms.

An altered son of Muscle Hill–Cooler Schooner, Real Cool Sam set world records in his last two starts. He equaled the 1:53.1 standard for freshman trotting geldings on a mile track, first set by Outburst in 2013, when he won the Peter Haughton Memorial final, and then at The Meadows in Sire Stakes action he equaled the divisional world record of 1:54.4 set by Amigo Volo a week earlier.

Real Cool Sam is undefeated in six career starts and has earnings of $248,134.

Two other single Sires winners will go against him Sunday: Rome Pays Off (post one, trainer Marcus Melander, driver Mattias Melander), a winner at The Meadows in his last start; and Chestnut Hill (post seven, trainer Nifty Norman, driver Tim Tetrick), who won at Philadelphia on Aug. 9.

In the other division, the Father Patrick–Margarita Momma gelding Amigo Volo, who at Philadelphia first set the 1:54.4 divisional world record that was equaled by Real Cool Sam in that one’s last start, has drawn the rail for the team of trainer Nifty Norman and driver David Miller. His only other start in the Sires was a neck defeat to Gangster Hanover, a two-time Sires winner who is sitting out this last prelim.

Gangster Hanover is part of the Ake Svanstedt stable, and Svanstedt has two single-time Sires winners going against Amigo Volo: Swiss House Onfire (post five, driver Yannick Gingras) and King Alphonso (post six, Svanstedt up). The latter is actually the divisional points leader with a win and two seconds in the competition.

The battle for high finishes will determine who earns enough points to qualify for the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes final and consolation, to be held Sept. 8 at Harrah’s Philadelphia.

The competition should be equally fierce in the Stallion Series races, which will have their final here at The Downs on Monday (Sept. 9). Three horses have two Stallion Series wins apiece so far, and the fourth race division matches two of them: Town Victor, the leading point winner in the series so far with two firsts and a third, and Saxon, who is undefeated in his only two Stallion Series starts.

The other double winner is Beyond Kronos, also unbeaten in a pair of series contests, who will go postward in the sixth race.