Chester, PA — Tag Up And Go and Watkins emerged as the winners of the $14,500 jointly featured trotting events on Thursday afternoon (April 18) at Harrah’s Philadelphia.

Tag Up And Go enjoyed a drop in class, pointing right to the front for driver Marcus Miller and never locking back through splits of :28, :57, 1:25.1 and 1:53.4. Seven Iron raced in the pocket and stayed close, but at the line he was still 2-3/4 lengths behind the victorious Angus Hall gelding, who now has 42 wins and $560,466 to his lifetime credit. Rob Harmon trains Tag Up And Go for owners Lester Gelardi Jr. and Anthony Passafaro.

The 12-year-old Striking Sahbra gelding Watkins won for the 50th time in his career and boosted his earnings to $913,385, by winning the other co-feature in 1:55.2. David Miller was able to delay a first-over move until well past the five-eighths, and he just kept rolling from there, leaving P L Icabod, who was on his back, a neck behind on the money for trainer Paul Stafford and owner Thomas Ceraso Jr.

On the undercard, the sophomore Cantab Hall-Frau Blucher filly Fraulein Blucher made her 2019 debut a successful in a $14,000 contest, stopping the clock in 1:56.4 for a new mark. Andy McCarthy, who had four driving wins on the card, kept the Nancy Johansson trainee in third-over position, then showed enough sweep in the last quarter to finish three lengths clear at the wire for Hauser Brothers Racing Enterprises LLC and Rojan Stables.