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Sunday, January 13, 2013

YR -ELECTROFIRE WINS SATURDAY NIGHT 35G OPEN HANDICAP PACE

BY FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway

YONKERS, NY, Saturday, January 12, 2013--Favored Electrofire (Brian Sears) was the champion of the chalk players Saturday night, winning Yonkers Raceway's $35,000 Open Handicap Pace.

Starting inside his six rivals, Electrofire retook from the six wins-in-a-row Proven Lover (Jason Bartlett), after a foggy, 28-second opening quarter-mile. The reformed claimer then rolled through a :55.4 intermission and 1:23.4 three-quarters, losing his pocket pursuer and any semblance of an outer flow.

Electrofire had 2½ lengths turning for home and was never threatened. He was two lengths to the good at the wire, which he found in 1:52.3. Second went to Saint William A (Larry Stalbaum), photoing over Here We Go Again (George Brennan). Fitz's Z Tam (Matt Kakaley, seven winners in the first two racing nights) and newly-minted millionaire River Shark (Mark MacDonald) rounded out the payees.

For reformed claimer Electrofire, a 6-year-old son of Electric Stena co-owned by West Wins Stable & Dave Miller and trained by Casie Coleman, he returned $4.20 for his first win in a couple of seasonal starts. The exacta paid $46.20, with the triple returning $172.

The Raceway resumes its normal five-night-per-week live schedule next week, with first post every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7:10 PM. Evening simulcasting accompanies all live programs, with afternoon simulcasting available around the NYRA schedule.