Tetrick at the top of his game

CHESTER PA – Driver Tim Tetrick was at the top of his game on Tuesday morning at Harrah's Philadelphia, winning five times in ten qualifiers, including a sweep with four quality-proven performers.

Donttellmeagain, as good as the best harness racing FFA pacers when at his best last year, won his second straight 2019 qualifier, this one in 1:51.4.

The Jim King Jr. trainee, an altered son of Dragon Again, moved out of the pocket down the backstretch and covered each of the last two panels in 27.1 to be 2¾ lengths clear of Closing Statement, third as a baby in his Breeders Crown event and on the comeback trail.

Caviart Ally, a consensus second-best in the 2018 aged mare ranks behind Shartin N (ironically another Tetrick/King horse), came from last to be third, with her own last quarter in 27.

Three-year-old stakes fillies who had had six-figure campaigns at two put in some sharp miles in other events, all under the guidance of the green, yellow, and white.

The So Surreal filly So Awesome, a nose shy in her New York Sire Stakes final last year, came home in 27.4 to win in 1:54.1 for Tetrick and trainer Scott DiDomenico, while the "hometown horse," Rockin Philly, lowered her freshman record by a tick, the A Rocknroll Dance filly reporting home first in 1:53.1 – 27.2 for the Donttellmeagain team of Tetrick and King.

Tetrick's mastery also extended to the trotting fillies, as the Cantab Hall miss Magical Beliefs, a neck shy in her Pennsylvania Sire Stakes Championship, came out to win at first crack in 1:57.2 for Tetrick and trainer Linda Toscano.

 

PHHA / Harrah's Philadelphia

Jerry Connors