Wilkes-Barre, PA — Developing horses were featured in a quartet of $15,000 headlining contests on Tuesday afternoon (March 26) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.

In the pace for males, A Major Attitude sprang a 23-1 upset, with the Captaintreacherous gelding brushing to the lead into the far turn then maintaining his advantage to the wire to take a new mark of 1:53 for owner-trainer Howard Birney.

A Major Attitude lowered his mark to 1:53 winning a feature at Pocono Tuesday. Curtis Salonick photo.

The female pace saw Miss Majesty improve her 2024 record to 6-5-1-0 with a 1:54 win. Matt Kakaley, who led the driving colony with four wins on the day, handled the Always B Miki mare for trainer Nik Drennan and the partnership of Joseph Davino and Drennan Stable LLC.

The winners of both trotting events were both driven by Tyler Buter and sired by Southwind Frank: the gelding Chase Mateo, who lowered his mark to 1:56.2 for owner-trainer Susanne Lopez, and the mare I Can’t Refuse, trained by Linda Schadel and co-owned by her with her husband, Tony, in 1:57.2.

The top five drivers at The Downs – Matt Kakaley, George Napolitano Jr., Anthony Napolitano, Tyler Buter and Braxten Boyd – accounted for 13 of the 15 races among themselves, with each reinsman winning at least two races.

Racing at Pocono resumes on Saturday (March 30) at 1 p.m., with two $17,000 trots and a pair of $16,500 paces heading the bill of fare. In April, every card will feature series action: Game Of Claims events for $10,000 pacers and $25,000 trotters, as well as all four of 3-year-old divisions of the Bobby Weiss Series. Free Pocono programs are or will be available at www.phha.org.