by Tony Verruso for AHDC
It was a scorching 89 degree late afternoon at Pocono and with the heat came invaders from around the country. Steve Oldford who runs GLADA, which is a Mid-West Amateur club and Dein Spriggs who runs FADC, which is the Florida Amateur club both made the trek to Northeastern PA and there presence was felt in a big way.
Dein Spriggs immediately sent Uva Hanover to the lead and he rang the first
quarter teletimer in a blazing 26:4 putting last week's pace setter Da Boogie
Man and Tony Ciuffetelli in the two hole. The field stayed in line until about
the half when Oldford pulled Zooming to the outside and quickly forged up to
challege Uva Hanover past the three quarter pole in 1:25:4. Midway through the
lane Zooming cleared the tiring front runner and coasted to an easy 4 length
victory. Hot Summer Knight and Robert Krivelin charged up for the place spot
with last week's winner French Moni with Tony Beltrami steering secured the
show money.
For Zooming that was his 67th career victory with earnings over 1.1 Million
Dollars. It was Steve Oldford's 4th win of the 2021 campaign and 182nd of his
career. The AHDC will take off next week for the 4th of July holiday but will
be back slugging it out on July 11th.
