WILKES-BARRE PA – Rubber Duck, who has done his best harness racing on the front end in recent starts, worked out a pocket trip on a 34-degree night and came on to get a half-length decision over tough pacesetter Classicality while taking Sunday's $25,000 winners-over handicap trot in 1:53.2 Sunday night at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono.
Jim Marohn Jr. sat with the Muscle Mass ridgling behind favored Classicality as that one set fractions of 27.1, 56.1, and 1:25.2, then gained into the 28 last quarter to get his third straight victory for trainer Jennifer Bongiorno and owners Blair and Ema Corbeil, who saw their talented trotter cross the $400,000 mark in his last start, and now has a bankroll of $413,301.
There are only two more days of racing left in the 2017 season at Pocono – the track will be dark tomorrow, then will race on Tuesday and Saturday at 6:30, with the Saturday after Thanksgiving action the final of the year at the mountain oval.
PHHA / Pocono