Wilkes-Barre, PA — Trainer Ray Schnittker and driver Mark MacDonald combined on a trio of winning sophomores during Wednesday morning (April 27) qualifying competition at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono.

The Walner trotting filly Brickhouse Babe, second in the Doherty final last year and a double winner in the Kindergarten Series, trotted her back three-quarters in 1:26.1 while stopping the timer in 1:56.2 for the ownership of trainer Schnittker, Mary Kinsey Arnold, Steve Jones, and Paul Bordogna.

Team Schnittker/MacDonald also clicked with a pair of sophomore pacing males: the So Surreal gelding JD, last year’s New York Sire Stakes champion, coming home in :27.4 to win in 1:54.3 for Schnittker, George Zitone, and Melissa Beckwith; and the Huntsville colt Hunted House, who led at every call in 1:56.1 for Schnittker, David Pepin, and Flintlock Farm Inc.

Racing resumes at Pocono on Saturday at 1:30 p.m., with perhaps the finest card of the year so far at the northeast Pennsylvania oval featuring the $50,000 Weiss Series championship for 3-year-old pacing males and the highly-anticipated showdown between Lanjo Lee and All Or Nothing. Program pages are available at the PHHA website.