{"id":249618,"date":"2025-07-09T02:40:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T02:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/249618\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T02:40:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T02:40:14","slug":"freshman-fillies-spar-in-pocono-all-star-splits-u-s-trotting-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/249618\/","title":{"rendered":"Freshman fillies spar in Pocono All-Star splits \u2013 U.S. Trotting News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wilkes-Barre, PA \u2014<\/strong> The longest shot on the board in her first lifetime start, Abbess won the fastest of three $30,000 divisions of a Pennsylvania All-Stars event for 2-year-old trotting fillies on Tuesday afternoon (July 8) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>A daughter of <a href=\"https:\/\/stars.ustrotting.com\/stallion.cfm?stallion_id=772\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Father Patrick<\/a>-Dew Can Dew who showed only a second-place finish in a qualifying line for trainer Chase Vandervort, 25-1 outsider Abbess was kept near the back of the field as several of the favorites argued fractions of :28.2, :58.4 and 1:27.2. The light bulb went on for Abbess around the far turn, as she completed an individually timed :57 last half and closed from fifth at the stretch call to garner a neck victory over Contrition, who photoed Litt Up for place. Tim Tetrick drove Abbess for owners Arden Homestead Stable.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Abbess-PCD-TUE-070825.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-200239\"  \/>Abbess scored a 25-1 upset in Pennsylvania All-Stars competition Tuesday at Pocono. Curtis Salonick photo.<\/p>\n<p>After winning a Pennsylvania Sire Stakes event in her last start, the Bar Hopping-Perfect Chance miss Ginger Tree Lex added another stakes credit to her burgeoning resume with a defeat of a game Lainey W by a nose. After fractions of :29.4 and 1:00.2, Ginger Tree Lex went first-over with a :27.3 brush that saw her pass Lainey W to the lead at the 1:28.2 three-quarters. But the former leader was not finished and narrowed back in gamely, with Ginger Tree Lex proving just a nose more photogenic in 1:57.1, equaling her mark. Matt Kakaley drove for trainer Steve Cook and owners Sam Beegle, Ginger Tree Ventures LLC, Knollview Stable 2 and Robert Reber Jr.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/stars.ustrotting.com\/stallion.cfm?stallion_id=878\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greenshoe<\/a>-Tricky Sister filly Shoestrings, third in a Sire Stakes event in her purse debut, had the \u201ceasiest\u201d All-Stars victory, by three parts of a length over French Echo in a new mark of 1:57.1. The latter sat in the pocket as Shoestrings set splits of :29, :59.1 and 1:28.4, then closed a little into a :28.1 last quarter, but not enough to defeat Shoestrings, whom Jim Marohn Jr. drive for trainer-owner D.R. Ackerman.<\/p>\n<p>Though he won no stakes events, trainer \u00c5ke Svanstedt drove three horses from his barn to victory, by a combined 17-3\/4 lengths, to lead the Pocono horsepeople in both categories on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Racing at Pocono resumes on Saturday (July 12) at 1 p.m., and an instant possible bonanza awaits fans: there will be a $1,389.50 carryover into the first-race superfecta. Free Pocono program pages are or will be available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phha.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.phha.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wilkes-Barre, PA \u2014 The longest shot on the board in her first lifetime start, Abbess won the fastest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-249618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114820967661152193","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}