The winner of the position was the well-traveled one Muscle Hill gelding Little Expensive, an “Orange Crush” performer for Team Miller: Driver Tyler Miller sent him into the lead, yielding to the favorite and making a nice trip in the gold chair, then coming in to hold off the fast-closing Lefties Righies by 1½ lengths in 1:53.1. Tyler’s mother Julie trains Little Expensive, which has also won at Cumberland Run, Oak Grove, Lexington and The Meadowlands in 2025, and his father Andy (as Andy Miller Stable Inc.) co-owns him with Jean Goehlen and VIP Internet Stable LLC.
SMALL EXPENSIVE REPETITION
The highest pace on the card offered a $12,000 bounty, and it was taken by the Control the moment three-year-old gelding Shining Moment in 1:52.4. Shining Moment hadn’t shown much gate speed of late and was saddled with post eight, but driver Mark Herschberger thought the front was the best place for him, and he was proven right – despite being five wide into the first corner, three wide to the 3/16 and two wide to the 3/16, the pacer eventually made it to the top and did not relinquish his lead when the favored Touchback came upon him late and prevailed by a neck to trainer Bill “Moon” Mullin and owner Howard Taylor.
Fast pacers produced a rare 1:50f mile in an $11,000 race in late November when Belmont Shadow N, a modified son of Betterthancheddar, made a backstretch move and then stayed 1¼ lengths ahead of chalk Ignatius N in a 1:50 plane. Mark Herschberger also had the winning wheel behind this horse, now winner of two of his last three for trainer Nifty Norman, whose Enzed Racing Stable Inc. shares ownership with renowned riders Archie McNeil and Bill O’Donnell.
Simon Allard and meet leader Tim Tetrick both had three winners on the day and eight for the three-day week in Philly.
Harrah’s Philadelphia will now be dark for Thanksgiving on Thursday and Friday so the entire Philly family can enjoy their Thanksgiving holiday. Racing in Philly resumes on Sunday, November 30 (that card will be drawn on Tuesday), with the popular series’ $12,500 championship for $10,000 claiming pacers share the spotlight with a transfer to the Pick-5 betting for the fifth race. Free Philly program pages are available at www.pha.org.
For full race results, click here: American trotting results.
From the PHHA/Harrah’s Philadelphia
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