November 2025 - Munsee

Sophomore colts in Simpson Stakes, Beckwith wins five – U.S. Trotting News

Wilkes-Barre, PA — The John Simpson Sr. Memorial Stakes series continued Saturday (Oct. 25) at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania, with three-year-old colts racing in three divisions on each gait while chasing a total of $193,210.

The trotting race, known as the Ayres, saw its fastest mile, 1:52.1, turned in by the Face Time Bourbon colt Gap Kronos S, who was driven by George Napolitano Jr. for Bruni Racing Team Inc. Gap Kronos S, the favorite, had to race first-over from before the half, but coming home in a speedy :55.2 got him under the wire first, two lengths ahead of 74-1 shot Onemore Volo.

Gap Kronos S was an easy winner in the fastest Simpson Stakes trot Saturday at Pocono. Curtis Salonick Photo.

Gap Kronos S is trained by Åke Svanstedt, and the master Swedish horseman sent out another Ayers winner in the Walner gelding Don’t Ask For More. The second choice sat on the back of favored pacesetter Karinchak (Matt Kakaley), then came up the inside and caught the leader by a neck in 1:54.1 for driver Johnathan Ahle and the partnership of Åke Svanstedt Inc., Nils Munkhaugen, Barry Carter, and Michael Carter.

The Greenshoe gelding Sensational (Kakaley), who overcame a break to win upon coming to Pocono in his last start, made it two straight over the mountain oval, never looking back to win in a lifetime best 1:53.2 for driver Matt Kakaley and trainer George Ducharme, the latter’s George Ducharme Stable LLC co-owner with W J Donovan. Had Sensational looked back late, he would have seen the chalk Onejetplane (Niko Karna) to his right and Warrior (Ahle) to his left, but he won by a neck over the former, who photoed the latter…

Griffith to speak at Nanticoke museum

Dan Griffith of the Archaeological Society of Delaware will present “17th Century Indian Towns in Sussex County” at 2 p.m. at the Nanticoke Indian Museum near Millsboro on Friday, Nov. 14.

The admission cost is $5 per person.

Griffith, during a telephone conversation with the Coastal Point, said he will focus on American Indian towns from 1600 and 1700.

His research indicated Capt. John Smith came into Delaware downstream from Seaford near the confluence of Broadcreek and the Nanticoke River, Griffith said.

“In June 1608, Capt. John Smith, from Jamestown, Va., sailed up what is now known as the Nanticoke River and encountered an Indian nation he called the Kuskarawaoks. He mapped three Indian towns on that river, Nause, Nantiquak and Kuskarawaoks. The latter was the home of the leadership of the Kuskarawaoks, which John Smith called the Kings’ House. The Kuskarawaoks later became known as the Nanticoke — as well as the river — when, in the mid-17th century, the leadership of the Kuskarawaoks relocated to the town of Nantiquak.

“On the eastern side of Sussex County, near present day Lewes, there was reported a town occupied by Indian people named by the Dutch the Siconece. The Indian town near Lewes was later known in English as Chesonesseck, translated as Place of the Siconece.

“By the late 17th century, the Maryland colony began to establish reservations for the Nanticoke and Assateague peoples. By the mid-18th century, the reservation system was abandoned. Some Indian people migrated to the north, joining Indian communities in what is now Pennsylvania and New York, while some Indian families stayed behind in their home territory of southern Delaware and adjacent Maryland counties,” Griffith explained.

He said Indian towns were not what Europeans expected, but “they found out real quick” that the towns were linear arrangements of houses and dwellings…