Trainer Nick DeVita is rolling into Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania starting Saturday with a six-pack of 3-year-olds as he looks to make some noise in the first round of the Weiss Series for late-developing trotters and pacers. The 39-year-old had a bit of a down year statistically in 2024 as he focused on younger horses. "I learned a lot, business-wise and all-around," said DeVita, who has about 50 horses in his barn that races out of Mark Ford's training center in New York. DeVita called 2025 a "restructuring year" for his barn as he looked ahead to the younger horses racing not just now but in late spring and summer. "It's very exciting, especially this time of year and the next couple of months when the 2-year-olds qualify, but there is a lot of disappointment. You get your hopes up and things fall apart in the last minute," said DeVita. DeVita has an interesting group of four slated to compete in the six Weiss divisions for sophomore male pacers on the Saturday afternoon card that gets underway at 1:00 p.m. (EDT), and DeVita has secured Tim Tetrick for all of them. "The owner David Hamm likes Tim a lot and has used him a lot down in Delaware at Dover. He asked me to reach out to Tim and see if he would come out to drive and Tim said 'sure,'" said DeVita. Stay Out Late gets the party started for DeVita and Tetrick in the sixth race. The son of Stay Hungry was victorious at Bally's Dover in 1:58 1/5 in his lone career start on March 17 and is clearly stepping up in company. "He's still very green," said DeVita, who added that they didn't do much with him as a 2-year-old because he was a bit of a "bull" last year. "He's already improved from his first qualifier to his last start at Dover, and I know he's racing against tougher this weekend, but we are all happy with what we've seen so far and are hoping there is more improvement to come. He looks like a good horse and this week he's trained really well. We are anxious to see if he picks up a bit more." Stay Out Late starts from post six as the 9-2 fourth choice on the morning line. Gold Glove Hanover is the 5-2 early choice from post four. ► Sign up for our FREE DRF Harness Digest Newsletter Dune Buggy enters the eighth race and third division of the Weiss as the 7-2 third choice off a pair of second-place finishes at Dover, the son of Huntsville's only two starts of the year. "He kind of got a rough trip in his first start in Delaware but his feelings weren't hurt and he raced well in his next start," said DeVita about the gelding that will start from post four. "We are hoping he improves a little bit racing against tougher horses. He showed a little bit of ability last year, so we weren't afaird to throw him in this race and hopefully it pays off by making some money in the series." On paper DeVita's best chance of success comes in the tenth race when Charge Me Up leaves from post three following a pair of Dover victories as the odds-on favorite with Tetrick in the bike. "He raced very tough, going a big first half and holding on in his last race at Dover," said DeVita. "He seems to like to win, and I'm guessing Tim's thinking his afternoon revolves around this one." Saturday concludes for DeVita and the Weiss Series in the 14th race with Zip Time (7-2), a son of Captain Crunch who starts from post two. The gelding finished fourth in both of his 2025 starts so far at Pocono and hopes to find his way to the win column for the first time in his six-race career. "He's had a lot of bad luck in his first couple of starts. That last race a couple of horses made breaks in front of him and knocked him out a bit, but he closed good and he's been getting better," said DeVita. Pocono is dark on Sunday but starts back up Monday at 1:00 with 3-year-old male trotters racing in a trio of Weiss splits. DeVita's day starts in race three with Big Shot, a son of Propulsion who won his debut at Dover in 1:59 but struggled in his second start to finish sixth in 2:00 3/5. "We paid a lot of money for him so there is a lot of weight on his shoulders," said DeVita, who added that the gelding will race on Lasix for the first time on Monday. Anthony Napolitano is listed to drive Big Shot from post six. DeVita also has Global Twist in the seventh race Weiss event from post seven with Tyler Buter in the bike, and he was thrilled with his second second-place finish over the Pocono surface on March 17. "Tyler drove him great in his last start. He closed really good and I couldn't have been happier with him," said DeVita. "Both of them are alright but still green and learning the process, plus us figuring them out equipment-wise," said DeVita. "Global Twist is a little more fine-tuned right now." The Weiss series is a spring staple at Pocono. It offers three preliminary legs and a $50,000 final for each division on April 19 and 21.