With late-developing youngsters coming to Harrah’s Philadelphia from every direction, the southeast Pennsylvania track featured four $12,600 events, two on each gait, that could serve as steppingstones to nearby future glory. The meet’s leading driver, Tim Tetrick, guided a feature winner on each gait during a day which would see him win five races overall.
On the pacing side, where both headliners were limited to males, The Cookie Monster gobbled favoured pacesetter Rockin Rocko late to be along in 1:52.4 over what was then a “sloppy +2” surface. The son of American Ideal, unraced at two and three, has now won half his ten lifetime starts, with Tetrick driving and Scott Di Domenico doing the training for JFE Enterprise LLC.