Moonshiner Hanover 2-for-2 in 2018

CHESTER PA – Moonshiner Hanover, a four-year-old son of Andover Hall who won over $420,000 at two and three, looks like he may soon be ready for big-league harness racing competition after a second straight 1:53.4 victory in the $17,000 trotting feature at Harrah's Philadelphia Thursday afternoon.

David Miller moved Moonshiner Hanover to the lead by the 28 quarter and never looked back from there, posting middle splits of 57.1 and 1:24.4 en route to a 4¾-length runaway victory. Trainer Christopher Beaver also owns a share of the highly -promising trotter with Synerco Ventures Inc. and Bill Manes.

Top event for the "seasoned" trotting set was a $14,500 contest that saw another son of Andover Hall, the gelding Ataboy Hanover, get in under the "nw 7 races" AE condition and then visit Victory Lane for the third straight time after stopping the timer in a new personal best of 1:54.1. Also taking the front end after the quarter, Ataboy Hanover (like Moonshiner a Hanover graduate) had enough late to withstand a late burst from third-in Wheelsandthelegman by a neck for driver Eric Carlson and trainer Mark Harder, the latter sharing ownership with Rick Phillips and Deena Rachel Frost.

PHHA / Harrah's Philadelphia