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Saturday, November 14, 2015

SELL A BIT N WINS FRIDAY NIGHT 40G DISTAFF FEATURE

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

YONKERS, NY, Friday, November 13, 2015—Sell a Bit N (Jordan Stratton, $11.60) went the distance and repeated Friday night, winning Yonkers Raceway’s $40,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace.

Rarin’ to go from post position No. 7, Sell a Bit N worked around Medusa (George Brennan) and was then left without much in the way of adult supervision.

So, she toyed with her rivals (:28, :57.1, 1:25.3, 1:53.2), easily whipping a second-over Al Raza N (Eric Carlson) by three-quarters of a length. Medusa, a first-up Dune in Red (Brian Sears) and Stormunn (Brent Holland) rounded out the payees. As for 3-2 favorite Krispy Apple (Matt Kakaley), she wound up seventh, done in by a non-leave from an eight-hole in a paceless race.

Stratton won four of the evening’s first eight races (updated upon completion).

For third choice Sell a Bit N, a 5-year-old Down Under daughter of Julius Caesar owned by Harry von Knoblauch and trained by Peter Tritton, it was her seventh win in 18 seasonal starts. The exacta paid $37.20, the triple returned $221.50 and the superfecta paid $2,270.