GreatHallofChina goes two for two in Scranton Trot

GreatHallofChina, a three-year-old filly trained by veteran Donald Wiest, remained unbeaten in 2010, winning the second leg of the Scranton Trot for three-year-old trotting fillies Friday (April 30) at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs.

Anthony Napolitano once again was in the sulky with the three-year-old Cantab Hall filly. He has won all four of those starts at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs for trainer Wiest.

Friday night’s victory came in the third and final division of the Scranton Trot for three-year-old fillies who were non-winners of $25,000 life or non-winners of three pari-mutuel races life through March 15 of this year.

Time of the mile was 1:57 for a new life mark for the Wiest trotter. She also won the first leg with a time of 1:57.1

Spectacular Bay, trained and driven by Ray Schnittker, was a 2-5 favorite in the race after winning in the late closer last week with a life mark of 1:55.2.  Spectacular Bay went on a break down the backside and finished sixth in the race.

My Winning Way K (Don Irvine Jr.) was second to GreatHallofChina while third place went to Lil’ Miss Tut (Joe Pavia Jr.).

Quite Possible, a three-year-old Revenue S filly trained by Chris Ryder and driven by Jim Morrill Jr., won the second division with a new life mark of 1:55.4 from the one post.

Ally-Gal Ridge (Matt Kakaley) was second to Quite Possible with Front End Rate (Andrew McCarthy) third.

Morrill Jr., also won the opening Scranton Trot division with Closeness, stopping the timer in 1:56. Ed Lohmeyer trains this winner. Second went to Top Photo (Mike Simons) while third was Yansky (J. Duke Sugg).(Pocono)