Pocono: Concise polishes off Weiss Series sweep

The Gimpanzee filly Concise didn't exactly make short work of her opposition, but the answer to every question she was asked in the Bobby Weiss Trotting Series for fillies was "Correct" - she won all three of the preliminaries and then the $50,000 Weiss Championship on Tuesday afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.

Todd McCarthy had the catch-drive behind Concise, and after letting Aviatrix Blue Chip take the field to the quarter in 27 3/5, the pair retook command and got a breather to a 58 second half. From that point there was no relaxing, as I Take The Care challenged the leader to a 1:25 1/5 three-quarters, and when that foe faded Aviatrix Blue Chip came on to try the favorite again, but she fell short by a length to the 1:54 3/5 lifetime-best winning time posted by Concise.

Trained by Nik Drennan for his Drennan Stable LLC., Joseph Davino, and Brad Shackman, Concise was the only four-time winner among all the divisions of the Weiss, taking three prelims and then the Championship. Her four Weiss starts is her total output for the year, and she has won five of six lifetime trips to the gate.

In a $20,000 Weiss Consolation for the trotting fillies, the E L Titan miss B Eyelash also proved worthy of being backed as the favorite, posting a lifetime mark of 1:56 3/5 in winning for driver Braxten Boyd, trainer Jenny Melander, and Exceed Stables LLC. B Eyelash won by 3 1/2 lengths while coming home in 57 2/5.

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The pacing fillies also raced their $50,000 Weiss Championship on the Tuesday card, with no entrant having two preliminary wins but six of the eight having won one prelim round. Posting her second Weiss success at the optimal moment was the American Ideal filly American Cheese, who posted a swift 1:51 1/5 lifetime-best while winning as the second choice.

Like his filly, driver Scott Zeron showed good Weiss timing as American Cheese was his only drive at Pocono on Tuesday. He worked out a two-hole trip behind fractions of 27, 56 2/5 and 1:23 2/5 behind Vanna By The River, then headed to the Pocono Pike and beat out the pace-setter by half a length, with favored Sicerto another half-length back. Jared Bako conditions the winner, now three-for-five this season for Blue Chip Bloodstock Inc. and Philip Steinberg.

Tyler Buter, top Pocono driver in 2025 and again so far in 2026, won the last race to take Tuesday's honors with three, including two sent out by the day's only doubling trainer, John Butenschoen. Also visiting Victory Lane twice were sulky-sitters Braxten Boyd, Todd McCarthy, and George Napolitano Jr.

Thoroughbred racing's most famous race, the Kentucky Derby, will be preceded this Saturday (May 2) by a 1 p.m. (EDT) card of live Standardbred racing at Pocono.

--press release (PHHA/Pocono)--