BY FRANK DRUCKER,
Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY, Saturday, June 27, 2015—If
your favorite driver is Dan Dube and your favorite number is four,
congratulations and go collect.
Dube went “four-th” Saturday night,
winning both halves of Yonkers Raceway’s soggy $42,000 co-featured Open
Handicaps.
Great Vintage ($6.20) had nary an anxious
moment in the weekly pacing feature, working around a returning P H Supercam
(Jason Bartlett) and strolling through fractions of :27.4,
:57.1, 1:25.2 and 1:53.2.
Great Vintage whipped 19-10
choice P H Supercam—out four weeks prior to this start—by a couple of lengths.
Texican N (Eric Carlson) was a three-hole third, with Rock on Moe (Jordan
Stratton) and a tough-trip All Bets Off (George Brennan) settling for the
remainder.
For second choice Great Vintage, a 7-year-old
son of American Ideal trained by Jimmy Takter for co-owners his wife,
Christina, John Fielding and a pair of Gorans (Anderberg and Falk) it was his
third win in five seasonal starts. The exacta paid $19, with the triple
returning $62.50.
The week’s marquee trot saw 11-10 choice
Daylon Miracle—in one notch after an inside scratch—duplicate the down-the-road
(:28.3, :58.2, 1:27, 1:56.4) MO of Great
Vintage.
Daylon Miracle held off a second
move of outside assignee Luminosity (Brennan) by a length-and-a-half, with
Backstreet Hanover (Tyler Buter), Rock of Cashel (Eric Goodell) and Lorenzo
Dream (Carlson) rounding out the payees.
For Daylon Miracle, a 6-year-old daughter of Pegasus Spur owned (as Allard
Racing) and trained by Rene Allard, it was her eighth win in 14 ’15 tries. The
exacta (two wagering favorites) paid $11.20, the triple returned $47.80 and the
superfecta paid $165.50.
The Raceway’s live season continues Monday
night (7:10 PM), Tuesday matinee (1 PM), then Thursday through Saturday
(all at 7:10 PM). Note Sunday matinees are done until November. Evening
simulcasting accompanies all night programs, with afternoon simulcasting
available daily.
