World record holder Dame Good Time wins again in quick time

WILKES-BARRE PA – For the second time in as many starts at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, Dame Good Time, the five-year-old gelded trotter by Chapter Seven, , put in a free-for-all- caliber mile, following up on his 1:50.2 world record-equaling clocking with a very strong 1:51 harness racing victory Tuesday afternoon at the mountain oval.

Dame God Time started from post five in the six-horse $27,500 handicap event, just inside champion mare Warrawee Michelle, and gradually went up for driver Ridge Warren to take the lead away from “Michelle,” who was sent off at 4-5 vs. the gelding’s 11-10, a good bit past the :26.4 quarter. Dame Good Time continued on to post midsplits of :55 and 1:23.1 with nobody able to start an outside charge at him.

Despite the benefit of a two-hole trip, Warrawee Michelle could make up no stretch ground on the new world recordholder; in fact, she wound up three lengths behind the very powerful winner. Dame Good Time, now a career winner of $685,516, seems like he is on a course to face some of North America’s best trotters sometime soon for trainer Nick Devita and owner John Cummins.

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There were two $15,500 trotting events for horses looking to make headway up the class ladder, and both winners set lifetime bests. Caballero, an altered son of Tactical Landing, launched a second move uncovered down the back from which he carried on to a length triumph in 1:54.1 for the hot combination of driver Anthony Napolitano, trainer Anthony Faulkner, and owner Jaypaul Hanover.

Lionheart Hanover, a Greenshoe gelding who has been a mainstay of the Pennsylvania fair circuit the last two seasons, was in form control on the lead in the other sector, stopping the timer in 1:56 for driver Tyler Buter and trainer Linda Schadel, the latter co-owner with husband Tony.

Anthony Napolitano won four times on the Tuesday card to lead all drivers; two of them were for trainer Anthony Faulkner, the only conditioner who doubled. Also winning twice were drivers Tyler Buter and Jim Pantaleano.

There will be a doozy of a $27,500 fast-class handicap pace on the Pocono card Saturday, which begins at 1 p.m.: there are three millionaires handicapped to the outside of the outstanding field – Dandy Ideal, Ruthless Hanover, and Ken Hanover will begin from posts four through six respectively. 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