Tough photo finish in Pocono feature

WILKES-BARRE, PA – Flash Move (Heston Blue Chip), whose last start of his 2023 campaign was a 1:50 victory in the Pennsylvania Stallion Series Championship for sophomore harness racing pacing males, bettered that time by a tick while taking a new mark in the $15,000 pacing feature on Tuesday afternoon (May 21) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.

Andrew McCarthy got the gelding away fourth, watching Strengthfromabove kept Allabamajamma outside through a :26.2 quarter, then letting him go to sit the pocket as the pacesetter hit the half in :54.3. Flash Move was put into first-over grind mode before, though, and past the 1:22.1 three-quarters, battling the leader.

There was not much difference between those two entering the stretch, and then Strengthfromabove got access to the Pocono Pike and worked to a short lead just past midstretch.

But Flash Move continued to give his best and outpaced that innermost rival by a neck, with Alabamajamma holding for third, another 1½ lengths back. Flash Move is owned by trainer Robert Cleary along with Royal Wire Products Inc.

FLASH MOVE REPLAY

Tyler Buter and Anthony Napolitano guided three winners apiece on Tuesday. In an unusual pattern for the four-day racing week, each card yielded five drivers who had at least two winners, but Buter and Napolitano’s daily total of three was equaled only by Kakaley on Saturday. The meet’s leading driver, Kakaley was also the only pilot to have at least two successes each day.

Racing resumes at Pocono Downs with a Saturday program at 1 p.m.; the current schedule finds racing at the mountain oval on Saturdays, Mondays, and Tuesdays at 1 p.m. and Sundays at 6 p.m. Free Pocono programs are available at www.phha.org.

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

From the PHHA / Pocono Downs