by PHHA/Pocono

Wilkes-Barre, PA — The team of owner Bob Key, trainer Trish Adams and driver Jim Morrill Jr., accounted for two of the four $15,000 divisions of the second preliminary round of the Bobby Weiss Series for trotting females Tuesday night (April 10) at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono.

Baby Wants, a Conway Hall filly, had not won in 14 prior career starts and was up against the heavily-favored Myrna Myrna, the fastest winner in the first prelim, but was moved to the lead in front of the stands by Morrill. She then stepped home in 1:57.2 to post a half-length decision over the chalk, who came from sixth at the half.

The other winner for Morrill/Adams/Key was, Corrupt, a Deweycheatumnhowe filly. She was a good-closing third in her Weiss bow with Morrill using the same early move tactic that helped Baby Wants.

Deweycheatumnhowe got a second siring credit and Anthony Napolitano posted the first of his two Weiss wins on the night, when the 4-year-old Dewitonemoretime raced on the engine and held off Åke Svanstedt’s white trotting mare, Via Lattea IT, by a head while equaling her mark of 1:57.3 in her seasonal bow. Scott Betts trains the winner for owners Timothy Betts and Nicholas Catalano. First-round winner Miss Ruby made an early break but rallied from last to be third here.

I M Fishin was favored in the first leg of the Weiss, but had to settle for third after a good recovery from an early miscue while Ms American Muscle posted the victory last Tuesday. This week Ms American Muscle was the victim of a lapse from gait and I M Fishin (Anthony Napolitano), with the 1:56.3 final clocking lowered her speed tab by just over two seconds to win the event. Jody Riedel conditions the victorious ABC Garland mare for Super Mile LLC.

Jim Morrill Jr. went on to have five winners on the night; Anthony Napolitano wound up with three. That gives each driver 30 wins as they are tied at the top in the early Pocono standings. And since Pocono has raced only 12 cards so far in 2018, that means they are each averaging 2-1/2 winners a card so far — fancy numbers at anybody’s racetrack.