Lazarus N gelding continues remarkable winning streak

WILKES-BARRE PA – The Lazarus N gelding Endofstory paid $59.80 in winning an Open at Yonkers two starts ago and $34.80 in winning the $27,500 harness racing feature at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania last Saturday. This past Saturday afternoon, the crowd caught on, and Endofstory returned $3.20 as he repeated in the weekly fast-class handicap pace.

Always A Thrill circled past Endofstory just past the :26.3 quarter, but George Napolitano Jr. was right back out with the streaking pacer to reclaim the lead before the :55.2 half. Jolimont N started to mount a challenge to the pacesetter near the 1:22.1 and grinded up dangerously, but Endofstory is honed to a fine edge right now by trainer Doug Dilloian Jr. and resisted his challenger by a neck in the 1:50.2 mile. David Linker, Brian Loman, Robert Venable, and Kyle Warren own the winner of 23 of 66 lifetime starts to accompany with bankrolls of $128,800 this season and $436,565 lifetime.

ENDOSTORY REPLAY

The top trot of the week saw Oversear overcome the trailing post nine to win a $17,500 contest for developing horses in 1:54.3, running his record to two-for-two since being acquired by Burke Racing Stable LLC and Weaver Bruscemi LLC, Knox Services Inc. and FAC Racing LLC. Oversear, an altered sophomore son of International Moni, rushed uncovered to the lead at the three quarters and won easily for Pocono’s leading duo, driver Tyler Buter and trainer Ron Burke.

The card also featured three $11,000 divisions of the third and final preliminary round of the Game Of Claims Pacing Series for horses base-tagged this week at $15,000, and a unique feature of this Pocono series now will figure prominently – that a horse must start in all three preliminaries to make the Championship, which will be held next Saturday, Closing Day, for $17,500.

The Domethatagain gelding Greater Than Aces ended his series prelims three-for-three, making a big move down the back to sweep the field and go on to a 1:53.1 win. But this is a claiming series, so owner-trainer James Perry Jr., who bought him out of the first prelim, saw Greater Than Aces again change hands away from his shedrow, approaching the final. (Perry can console himself with the $15,500 he made in two weeks from the two wins and Saturday’s higher claiming price.)

Trainer Brandon Presto, #2 in the standings at The Meadows behind the Burke Brigade, conditioned the other two series winners, and neither was claimed – but neither will be in the final because of the “race in all three prelims” series rule. San Remo Hanover came from The Meadows this week and won in 1:53, and Doobie Nights added another victory in as many GOCPS starts, but Presto and his owners will have to be content with these Pocono purses and sharp horses to continue racing.

George Napolitano Jr. won four races for the second straight day – Friday at Philly and Saturday at The Downs. Braxten Boyd and Tyler Buter each sulkysat two winners. Brandon Presto, as mentioned, had a training double, and so did Darren Taneyhill, who has narrowed Ron Burke’s lead in the training colony to 79-75 with three cards left here in the 2026 season.

Those three cards will be held on Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday at 1 p.m., and a series Championship is on tap each day – the Winter Is Coming Series for trotters on Monday and pacers on Tuesday, and the Game Of Claims Championship on closing day, November 21. Free Pocono program pages are or will be available at www.phha.org.

For complete race results, click here: US Trotting results.

From the PHHA / Pocono Downs