Prominent Pocono barns produced sweeps in the action for each sex of two-year-old pacers during the Wednesday early session at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.
Travis Alexander sent out the three winners in the colt division -- the fastest was the Huntsville-Apple Delight colt Avenger Force, who went wire-to-wire in 1:55.3, with back fractions of :56.4 and :27. Matt Kakaley drove the colt for Fiddler’s Creek Stables LLC.
Jim Pantaleano drove the other two winners for the barn: the American Ideal-Arielle Lynn colt Howlenthehills, home in 1:55.4, and the Huntsville-Queen Of Darkness colt Vampire Blue Chip, a winner in 1:56.4.
On the pacing filly side, driver Marcus Miller, trainer/father Erv Miller and owner Douglas Overhiser had a sweep of the two cuts. The faster filly was the Sweet Lou-Some Fancy Filly miss Asweetbeachhere, who made an early move and dashed home first in 1:55 with back half fractions of :56.4 and :27.2.
Overhiser shares with David Prushnok the other Miller winner, the Stay Hungry-Mother Of Art distaff Shezahungrygigi, winning her second straight start, here in 1:56.2.
D. R. Ackerman owns, trains and drives the fastest trotting male winner, Mr Grant, an altered son of Tactical Landing-Flos Conch Shack, who recorded his second win, here in 1:59 with back half fractions of :57.3 and :28.1.
Driver Matt Kakaley and trainer Jenny Melander were the braintrust behind the two other winners in this section: Going Green (Greenshoe-Majestic Lexi) in 2:00.1 and Nottingham (E L Titan-Lady Marian) in 2:01.
Trainer/driver Todd Schadel, also co-owner with Jim Simpson, got the morning session off with the second straight winning charted line for the International Moni-Janderson filly Jakarta Hanover, here going wire-to-wire in 1:58.3 with back half fractions of :58.2 and :28.3.
The other baby winning on the day was her contemporary Sweet Secret (Six Pack-Getinonthesecret) in 2:03.3 for trainer/driver Chuck Norris.
(With files from PHHA/Pocono; Photo of Jakarta Hanover's dam Janderson winning an Ontario Sires Stakes Gold division in 2016 at Woodbine Mohawk Park)