Chester, PA — The Harrah’s Philadelphia condition sheet had horses who are “non-winners of five races” set to be the feature performers for the Wednesday afternoon (Nov. 10) program. The trotters gathered a full field, and raced for $14,400; neither the male nor female pace had enough entrants to fill a field, so they were handicapped to the outside posts and raced against “non-winners of three” horses in $12,600 contests.

In the trot, the Muscle Massive mare Spree took advantage of an opportunistic drive by Todd McCarthy while reducing her mark to 1:56.2. Coming around the final turn three-wide and looking like she might have to tip four-deep, Spree and McCarthy got a literal break as pocket sitter Red Redemption went off stride, allowing the pair to duck down to the inside to edge Vinny De Vie by a neck. A 28-1 proposition, Spree triumphed for trainer Trish Adams and owner Dante Scattolini.

In both of the paces, horses handicapped outside were able to overcome their outer starting slots for victories.

In the division for males, Mikibytheseaside and Number One Hit were the ones assigned outside and both went off at 6-5. In the end it was the Always B Miki sophomore gelding Mikibytheseaside, the slight favorite, who visited Victory Lane.

Driver Yannick Gingras sent the winner right to the top, put Number One Hit in behind him, then kept him at bay by 2-1/2 lengths in 1:52.4. Ron Burke trains the winner of $101,162 for Burke Racing Stable, Weaver Bruscemi, Joseph Critelli and Bill Switala.

On the distaff side, Capsaicinn, the race favorite, quickly gained control for driver Marcus Miller, then lowered her mark a tick to 1:52.4, staying ahead of pocket sitter Briar by 2-3/4 lengths. John Butenschoen conditions the Captaintreacherous sophomore for Emerald Highland Farm.

Program pages for the 12:25 p.m. first race post Thursday card are available at the PHHA website.