Bond wins rematch with Fashion Annie at Pocono PASS
August 22, 2022,
Wilkes-Barre, PA – Favorites Bond and Fashion Annie battled for home in a $74,435 Pennsylvania Sire Stakes event for 2-year-olds moving Sunday (Aug. 21) at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono. And pacesetter Bond, ridden by Sarah Svanstedt, held off Fashion Annie and took a new vital mark of 1:54.2.
The two met at an event in the classic garden the night before the Hambletonian, and Fashion Annie challenged from the pocket to grab Bond by the nose. On Sunday, Svanstedt led Bond after a :27.1 quarter and decisively forced Fashion Annie and Tim Tetrick into third, making it necessary to cover more ground to catch up to Bond as Svanstedt assessed the fractions average of :56.4 and 1:26.3. Moda Annie has early and late speed, but so does Bond, who pulled away late to win by a length.
Bond cruised to a powerful 1:54.2 victory in Sunday’s Pennsylvania Sire Stakes at Pocono. Photo by Curtis Salonick.
Trained by Åke Svanstedt and owned by Åke Svanstedt Inc., Little E LLC and L Berg Inc., the Southwind Frank-Boccone Dolce filly Bond now has three wins and two runner-up finishes in five career starts. She is the only winner in either bracket from Pennsylvania to have two wins in three preliminary rounds. As for Sarah Svanstedt, she took her Pocono driving record to 7-for-9 on the season.
Tetrick won the other Sire Stakes division, worth $74,035, with a daughter of Father Patrick: Vanessa J (by Evelyn) earned her second stakes win in four career outings, adding to her one-race win at All -Stars of Pennsylvania and lowering her mark to 1:56.1. Vanessa J sat in the pocket as Gina’s On Fire, riding the Stallion Series win, posted fractions of :27.3, :57.3 and 1:26.3, then took the lead over Pocono Pike and held off t31-1 shot Flares Ziva by a length half for owner-trainer Lucas Wallin.
Tetrick also won a $20,000 Stallion Series event, teaming with the Southwind Frank-Cruella De Ville filly Lie In Wait, who broke her maiden in 1:57.2 for the winning connections of Hambletonian Runthetable Stables and trainer Jim Campbell. A trio of Father Patrick fillies – Lindys Irishcream (1:56.3, Mark MacDonald), Jameson N Lime (1:56.4, Brady Brown) and Heaven Hanover (1:57, Matt Kakaley) – won their respective divisions, as did Donato. Hanoverian filly Sweet On Her (1:58.3, Wilbur Yoder), who paid $48.00 to win.
Two of the Father Patrick Stallion Series winners also took maiden grades. They were Lindys Irishcream (dam Gin And Lindy), who closed the cover tight for a 1:56.3 victory, fastest in stallion racing, for driver Mark MacDonald, trainer Jessica Fallon and owners Tim Klemancic and Blake MacIntosh; and 1:57 winner Heaven Hanover (dam of Hillarmbro), ridden by leading meeting driver Matt Kakaley, owned by SRF Stable, Rick Wahlstreet, Heights Stable and AMG Stable Inc., and trained by Marcus Melander, who had a great weekend at Pocono with big wins by Joviality S and Temporal Hanover the day before.
Pocono wraps up its weekly card racing action on Monday (Aug. 22) and Tuesday (Aug. 23) at 1:30 p.m. On Labor Day (Mon., Sept. 5), the track will host all eight Championship events of Pennsylvania Stallion Series. which boast a combined purse of $320,000. Program pages for all Pocono races are or will be available on the PHHA website.
