Trio of winners for Team Schnittker/MacDonald

WILKES-BARRE, PA – Harness racing trainer Ray Schnittker and driver Mark MacDonald combined on a trio of winning sophomores during Wednesday morning qualifying competition at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono.

The Walner trotting filly Brickhouse Babe, second in the Doherty Final last year and a double winner in the Kindergarten Series, trotted her back three-quarters in 1:26.1 while stopping the timer in 1:56.2 for the ownership of trainer Schnittker, Mary Kinsey Arnold, Steve Jones, and Paul Bordogna.

Team Schnittker / MacDonald also clicked with a pair of sophomore pacing males: the So Surreal gelding JD, last year’s New York Sire Stakes champion, coming home in :27.4 to win in 1:54.3 for Schnittker, George Zitone, and Melissa Beckwith; and the Huntsville colt Hunted House, who led at every call in 1:56.1 for Schnittker, David Pepin, and Flintlock Farm Inc.

Racing resumes at Pocono on Saturday at 1:30, with perhaps the finest card of the year so far at the northeast Pennsylvania oval featuring the $50,000 Weiss Series Championship for three-year-old pacing males and the highly-anticipated showdown between Lanjo Lee and All Or Nothing. Program pages are available here.

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From the PHHA/The Downs