Pocono: Miss Jum Jabber continues to impress in Pennsylvania All-Stars

The Bettor's Wish filly Miss Jum Jabber continued to push her way into national consideration by notching her fifth straight victory and equaling her mark of 1:51 1/5 in one of three $30,000 divisions of her Pennsylvania All-Stars event on Monday at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania.

Owned by trainer Brett Pelling's Pelling Racing LLC., Miss Jum Jabber got away mid-pack behind early fractions of 27 4/5 and 57 seconds. But pacing her own back-half in 53 2/5 while uncovered doesn't seem to bother this filly, as Andrew McCarthy got her straightened away and made the lead coming into the stretch, winning by an easy 1 3/4 lengths over Kissin In The Dark. The latter filly had the distinction of being a 49-1 shot to complete a $5.20 exacta return for $2, as Miss Jum Jabber created a sizable minus pool across the board.

McCarthy won a second division of the All-Stars by coming from sixth at the stretch call with the Papi Rob Hanover distaff Say Goodnight to be along by a neck over Carolina in a new mark of 1:51 2/5. Contested fractions of 27 2/5, 56 and 1:23 3/5 helped set up the late charge of the winner for trainer Nicholas Devita and owners David Hamm and Glenn Phillips. The winner returned a $34.40 win mutuel - mere peanuts against the $135.60 Say Goodnight paid in winning her Sire Stakes Championship at 2.

The third All-Stars section was the fastest of the three at 1:51, as the Captaintreacherous filly Darlin's Angel continued a good All-Stars form run for her sire, who got three credits in Saturday's action for the equivalent division of males. Darlin's Angel, undefeated in three starts this campaign, was quarter-mover #2 by the 27 3/5 opening pole, cut middle fractions of 56 2/5 and 1:24 2/5, then blitzed home in 26 3/5 to win by 2 1/2 lengths over Tall Dark Tequila for driver Lauren Tritton, trainer Juan Cano, and Hot Lead Farm.

The Pennsylvania All-Stars series next pops up at Pocono a week from Monday, May 18, with Hambletonian hopefuls trying to build a solid case for going onto the Grand Circuit in the All-Stars 3-year-old male trot.

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Highlight among Monday's overnight races was a $20,000 fast-class trot, won by Blackhawk Zette while posting a lifetime-best of 1:53 for driver George Napolitano Jr., trainer Robert Baggitt Jr., and owner J L Sadowsky LLC. The son of Cantab Hall had to make two moves to overcome the outermost starting position but still defeated Southwind Arturo by a length.

Napolitano Jr. won the first race and the last two races to lead all drivers with a sulky triple; Braxten Boyd and McCarthy each had two wins. Meet leader Tyler Buter had only one win on the card, but He's Gone Hanover was a huge overlay at a $63.00 mutuel, giving Buter four $50+ "bombers" at the meet while only one other driver has more than one. Among trainers, Linda Toscano harnessed a pair of winners.

The last card of this racing week takes place Tuesday at 1 p.m. (EDT), with five $16,000 divisions of the Game Of Claims Trotting Series' second preliminary, with this week the horses carrying a base tag of $25,000. After that, the glamour division 3-year-old male pacers will contest their Pennsylvania Sire Stakes and Stallion Series second round preliminaries on Saturday, with $231,270 on the line among three divisions of Sire Stakes and six Stallion Series sections.

--press release (PHHA/Pocono)--