Wilkes-Barre, PA — The Monday (April 10) card at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania featured five divisions each of two ongoing series: the first preliminary of the Bobby Weiss Series for 3-year-old pacing fillies, and the second preliminary round of the Game Of Claims Pacing Series for horses who raced with a base tag of $12,500.

In the Weiss Series, two fillies posted 1:52.1 miles in their respective $20,000 events. One was C Is For Cookie, a daughter of Betting Line-Sweet Future, with whom driver Scott Zeron was just a passenger late in winning by 1-1/2 lengths for trainer Linda Toscano and Birnam Wood Farms.

The impeccably-bred C Is For Cookie won in Weiss Series action at Pocono on Monday. Curtis Salonick photo.

The other winner in that time was the first of two Weiss wins for driver Braxten Boyd, the Huntsville filly Sweet Home, who rallied up the inside from third-in to win by 1-1/2 lengths and take a new mark for trainer Hunter Oakes and owner Chuck Pompey. Boyd also won with Caris, a daughter of A Rocknroll Dance who defeated Dance Number by a nose in 1:54.1 for trainer Nicholas DeVita and owner John Cummins.

B On The Hunt completed a siring double for Huntsville when she lowered her mark to 1:53.4 a head ahead of EA Audit for driver Marcus Miller, trainer Cory Stratton, and the partnership of Our Three Sons Stable LLC and Stratton Stable Inc. The Stay Hungry filly Relentless Julie sprang a 16-1 surprise in the other Weiss cut, breaking her maiden in 1:52.4 while a neck in front of Team Colors for trainer Travis Alexander, Fiddler’s Creek Stables LLC, and driver Jim Pantaleano.

Pantaleano combined with trainer Brandon Presto to take two $9,000 divisions of the Game Of Claims Series. The faster of their pair was Friday Night Blues (1:52.2), who was claimed, and Riot (1:52.4), who was not. Two horses ran their record to two-for-two in the Game Of Claims: Apple Valley Art (1:53.4, driver George Napolitano Jr.) and Hudsen A (1:54.1, Pat Lachance). The other Monday Game Of Claims winner was Howtotrainurdragon (1:52.3, Matt Kakaley).

Tuesday’s (April 11) card at 1 p.m. closes out the racing week at Pocono, and there will be 10 races with $20,000 purses: four first-round Weiss Series events for 3-year-old trotting fillies, and six second-round Game Of Claims Trotting Series for horses who this week will race with a base-tag price of $27,500. Program pages for all Pocono races are or will be available on the PHHA website.