BY FRANK
DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY, Wednesday, March 25,
2015—Yonkers Raceway’s stakes and series continue, then conclude, over the next
few racing programs.
After Thursday’s overnight soiree, the
girls are back it Friday night (March 27), with Round 2 of the Blue Chip
Matchmaker. A pair of $40,000 divisions (races 6 and 7) include two of last
week’s three, opening-leg winners. Carolsideal (Dan Dube), who wired ‘em from
the pole a week ago, won the draw again in this week’s first event, while
Krispy Apple (Tim Tetrick), an off-the-pace winner last Friday, drew post
position No. 7 in the second grouping.
(Note that last week’s other
Matchmaker winner, Venus Delight, is AWOL [Philly, actually] as part of the
one-horse-per-trainer-per-division rule).
Saturday night’s second round of the
George Morton Levy Memorial Series offers 32 Free-For-All lads, neatly divided
into four, $50,000, consecutive events (7 through 10). All five opening-leg
winners have returned, with three—Polak A (Brian Sears, post 1), Michael’s
Power (Dube, post 5) and Warrawee Needy (Mark McDonald, post 7)—landing in the
second division…
…along with one Foiled Again (Yannick
Gingras, post 2). Harness racing’s richest-ever horse, eying $7 million
lifetime, was a solid second a week ago in his seasonal debut.
P H Supercam (Jason Bartlett), last
season’s series champ who whipped Foiled Again out of the pocket last weekend,
drew post No. 4 in this week’s opening Levy division.
Beach Memories (Gingras), who threw down
a :26.4, third-quarter gauntlet to bottom out his series foes a week ago,
starts from post No. 4 in Saturday night’s third series event.
Monday night (March 30) finds Witch Dali
(Tetrick, post 4) looming a prohibitive proposition in the $54,800 final of the
Petticoat Pacing Series (8th race). Tuesday afternoon (March 31) is
the Raceway’s richest race of the season to date, the $62,200 final of the
Sagamore Hill Pacing Series (to be draw Thursday afternoon).
