Wilkes-Barre, PA — Horses on the way up the class ladder were featured in $15,000 contests on Tuesday afternoon (March 12) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.

No Words, a son of Tellitlikeitis, suffered interference when pacesetting favorite El Yerno made a break coming into the stretch in the event for pacing males, but he quickly righted and stormed home five-wide from seventh to win in 1:52.3 for driver Patrick Ryder. The Michael Calderone trainee has now won three of his last four starts for lessee Exceedequine.com.

No Words barreled home down the far outside to win a Pocono feature on Tuesday. Curtis Salonick photo.

On the distaff pacing side, the Stay Hungry sophomore filly Stay Classy advanced a long way uncovered before holding off the horse on her back, Cannery Row, by a neck and equaling her lifetime best of 1:55.2 for driver George Napolitano Jr., trainer Jeff Cullipher, and Pollack Racing LLC.

The developing trotter section saw Irish Coffee team with the meet’s leading driver, Matt Kakaley, for an easy win in 1:56.4. Jenn Bongiorno owns and trains the altered son of Father Patrick.

Racing at Pocono resumes at 1 p.m. on Saturday afternoon (March 16), with the final preliminaries for the Game Of Claims Series for top-priced horses yielding this question: “Who is going to wind up with Dontpokethedragon after the race?” The $30,000 claiming tag may not daunt anyone, given that the pacer has won eight times this year, including twice easily in his preliminaries, and will be going for his 11th straight win ahead of the March 23 $35,000 series final. In all, there will be five cuts of this series going for $17,500 each. Free Pocono programs are available at www.phha.org.