Tetrick gets a seven bagger at Philly

CHESTER PA – Tim Tetrick, looking for his fifth straight title as winningest driver at Harrah’s Philadelphia, padded an already-sizeable lead by bringing home seven winners during the Wednesday card at the riverside oval.

Among Tetrick’s seven-bagger was the winner of one of the two $12,000 featured paces for distaffs, the Captaintreacherous filly Lyons Benz, who made the lead after the quarter, then came home in :56 to win by eight lengths in 1:53. Jim King Jr. trains the winning filly, who shook off a four-race bout of seconditis, for Threelyonsracing.

LYONS BENZ REPLAY

The same triumvirate braintrust attempted a feature sweep in the other division with another Captaintreacherous-sired favorite, Lyons Anitasangel, but that one didn’t get away well and made a break trying to recover the necessary ground to contend.

The winner was the Stay Hungry mare Shangri La Hanover, who sat in the two-hole behind fast fractions set by Sweet Odds, then caught that one up the inside by three parts of a length while lowering her mark to 1:51.1.

Simon Allard had the winner placed in the most opportune spot for victory for trainer Linda Toscano and the ownership of Steven Held, South Mountain Stables, JAF Racing LLC, and Camelot Stables Inc.

There will be Pennsylvania Sire Stakes and Stallion Series action for trotting fillies on the next two Philly cards. Over $350,000 will be at stake as two-year-olds stage their second preliminary on Thursday’s all-trotting fifteen race card and then three-year-olds have their turn in their third prelim on Friday. 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