BY FRANK
DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY,
Saturday, July 5, 2014—Odds-on favorite PH Supercam
(Jason Bartlett, $2.60) fooled very few Saturday night, winning Yonkers
Raceway's $44,000 Open Handicap Pace.
Pocketed from a very generous post position No. 3, he sat patiently behind
Aracache Hanover (George Brennan). "Aracache" found sub-stations of
:27, 55.2 and 1:23.1, taking a length-and-a-half lead into the lane.
P H Supercam, all dressed up this week after a pair of belated eight-holes
efforts, zipped inside and zipped by. The final
margin was three-quarters of a length in 1:51.1...matching a season's- and
life-best. Last week's winner, Pancetta (Jordan Stratton), flew home to snatch
second, with Aracache Hanover, Sir Ziggy's Z Tam (Pat Lachance) and
Casimir Jitterbug (Larry Stalbaum) rounding out of the payees.
For George Morton Levy Series winner P H Supercam, a 7-year-old Million Dollar
Cam gelding owned by Bamond Racing and trained by PJ Fraley, it was his fifth
win in 19 seasonal starts. The exacta paid $26.60, with the triple
returning $108.
Special Saturday props to Keystone Velocity (Stratton, $2.80), whose
1:50.4, 9¼ -length flogging of the field in the $20,000, fourth-race pace
was the fastest local mile of the season. It also matched the venerable
former all-track record holder Silver Almahurst's 1993 (final of Levy) standard
for an aged pacing horse.
The
Raceway's five-night-per-week live schedule continues, with first post every
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7:10 PM. Evening simulcasting
accompanies all live programs, with afternoon simulcasting
available daily.
