Intricacy upsets, Tetrick wins five

CHESTER PA – The wagerers on the $12,000 featured distaff pace at Harrah’s Philadelphia on Friday afternoon sent off Verity Blue Chip as the heaviest of favorites, but she had to settle for second behind the wire-to-wire winner Intricacy (Papi Rob Hanover), who took a new mark of 1:51.4.

INTRICACY REPLAY

Intiricacy, a sophomore daughter of Papi Rob Hanover who wound up the 5-1 second choice in her second start of the year, headed right for the front end under the guidance of meet leader Tim Tetrick, laying down fractions of :27.4, :56.2, and 1:23.4, with Verity Hanover getting to the wheel while raw at the three-quarters.

But Intimacy had more in reserve and stretched her advantage to 2¾ lengths by the finish while winning for Joseph Davino, Brad Shackman, Patrick O’Brien, and Drennan Stable LLC.

The $11,000 handicap pacing co-feature for fast veteran females also fell to the four-time defending Philly driving champion Tetrick, and again the winner, In The Spotlight N, paid a very un-“Timmy T” price of $21.20.

The Bettor’s Delight mare followed cover late on the backstretch, continued to advance as the first-over cleared mid-far turn, then stayed strong to win by a length in 1:52.2 over favored Miss Dottie Mae. Jeff Cullipher trains In The Spotlight N for Pollack Racing.

IN THE SPOTLIGHT N REPLAY

In all, Tetrick won half of the ten races for which he was at Philly, then headed to The Meadowlands for stakes competition. George Napolitano Jr. visited Victory Lane three times, meaning that eight of the fourteen contests Friday were captured by the two drivers who have won the last eighteen win crowns at the Harrah’s oval (Cat Manzi won in the opening year of 2006; nobody else has ever won that crown).

Philly closes out the racing week on Sunday with a 12:40 card, featuring a pair of races for developing trotters and a duo on the pace for the veteran set. Free Philly program pages are or will be available at www.phha.org.

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

From the PHHA/Harrah’s Philadelphia