Shenandoah, VA — When referring to a “triple-double,” one thinks of NBA stars scoring at least 10 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists in a single basketball game. It’s a rare feat and worthy of headlines in sports sections all across the NBA world. Amateur driver Scott Woogen has given a new meaning for a “triple-double” in harness racing.

For the third week in a row, the good doctor had a driving double at Shenandoah Downs in amateur action for the United States Harness Drivers Club (USHDC).

Woogen kicked off the festivities at the “Downs” with a gate-to-wire score with Moneyorroses (Cougar Hall), owned and trained by Eric Davis.

The 5-year-old gelding put up solid numbers throughout on a track labeled “good” to score in 1:57.1, the margin 4-3/4 lengths over Do Ya Think, driven by Justin Griffith, with the favored Texas Terror N, with Kubi Erzene in the bike, a nose further back in the show spot.

Moneyorroses, winless in 32 starts this season before Woogen picked up the drive last week, now has won two straight to nudge his lifetime earnings over the $100,000 plateau ($102,374), of which $19,190 is on the books for this season. The winner paid $6.60 as second choice.

Woogen also won with the 6-year-old mare Hey Siri (Rockin Image), surviving a very tough journey early while chugging her way to the front through a :57.2 opening half on the outside from the get-go. She stretched her lead during the following panel and was never threatened thereafter while hitting the line in 1:59.4, 2-1/4 lengths up on Amazing Ponderosa, closing stoutly for Stacey McLenaghan. Rollatown and Wyatt Long teamed up for third.

Trained by Scott Warnick for Deborah Wainick, Hey Siri won for the third time this season in 27 starts to send her career bankroll to $60,668. A popular winner on the toteboard at 4-5, Hay Siri paid $3.60 to win.

Wyatt Long picked up a hard earned win in USHDC action on Saturday by piloting Lenda Hand Man (American Ideal) to a sharp score in 1:57.3 over the track label ‘good,’ getting by a stubborn Cole On The Beach, driven by Erzene, by three-parts of a length. JK’s Pilot, with John McNeil III handling the lines, was next.

The win gave trainer Scott Warnick and owner Deborah Warnick a double of their own on Saturday with Lenda Hand Man rewarding his faithful with a $4.20 mutuel. This 4-year-old boosted his 2023 bankroll to $26,802 which brought his lifetime earnings to $79,352.

The USHDC finale was won by the 5-year-old gelding Righthererightnow, given a superb, heads-up drive by McLenaghan. From post seven and leaving alongside a headstrong Anythingforlove A, while the latter was putting up some very quick numbers early — :27.4 and :56.4 — Righthererightnow had settled close up in third, though eight lengths away and behind Fox Valley Mondo.

But the leader’s advantage started melting away like ice in hot waters, as Fox Valley Mondo surged from the garden spot and into the lead. In the lane, Fox Valley Mondo and Righthererightnow went warring right to the wire with the latter sticking his head up right on the line in 1:59.1. Fox Valley Mondo was ably handled by Erzene while KJ Erich, with Woogen in the bike, was third, just a length away.

Eric Davis trains the winner for Joseph Pisarski with a $25.80 mutuel paid to the $2 win ticket holders. The win was the second for Righthererightnow in 25 season’s starts with his lifetime bounty at $89,915 — $21,275 this semester.

Scott Woogen now has 218 career wins, the 19-year-old Wyatt Long has 18 lifetime wins — 17 this year to go along with his first $100,000 season in purse earnings, and Stacey McLenaghan has 38 lifetime wins to go along with 378 training successes.

The USHDC, whose members donate all of their driving fees to charitable causes, have teamed up with Shenandoah Downs to continue their tradition of giving — the most recent gift to the American Cancer Society.