Weiss Series championships featured all week at Pocono

This coming racing week at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, each of the four racing cards will present a $50,000 championship race in the Bobby Weiss Series for developing 3-year-olds. Each day except Sunday will also feature a $20,000 consolation for Weiss competitors who did not earn enough points to secure a place in the championship.

Named after the retired Pocono trackman who helped make the local racing surface into one of the best in North American racing, the Weiss series each staged three preliminary legs for up-and-coming sophomores, and after many competitive races in each division in each week, the best will get to go for the big money this week.

Saturday’s championship is for 3-year-old pacing colts, with the Heston Blue Chip colt All Class the early favorite. All Class won both his Weiss prelims, last week coming home in :26.3 against the wind and under a hold, and he will look to keep his lifetime record unblemished as Jason Bartlett will be behind him as he starts from post six. In this group, there were no fewer than seven different preliminary winners, and everybody will be primed to get after a big share of the big money.

Sunday’s headliner will be for 3-year-old trotting colts, and Bestfriend Volo has been given the favorite’s mantle as he begins from starting slot three for driver Tyler Buter. A Walner gelding, Bestfriend Volo won handily in the first two Weiss prelims for his group, then took last week off. Moni Book (post four, Marcus Miller) also was a double winner in the preliminaries.

Post times for this week’s cards will be 1 p.m. on Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday and 6 p.m. on Sunday.