BY
FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY, Saturday, March 5, 2016—All
Bets Off (Matt Kakaley, $5.60) avoided some early happenstance and held sway
Saturday night, winning Yonkers Raceway’s $32,000 Open Handicap Pace.
Remanded outside his seven rivals, All
Bets Off floated from the gate early, then saw 3-2 favorite Fan of Terror
(Brian Sears) made a bad break out of the first turn. That allowed All Bets Off
to take a seat fourth as pole-assigned Dream Out Loud N (Georg Brennan) led
through a :28.1 opening quarter-mile.
All Bets Off wanted no part of mid-pack,
cruising to the lead right past a 57-second intermission. Down the backside,
Rock Icon (Tyler Buter)—who was bothered when Fan of Terror jumped it off—tried
his luck moving from fifth.
However, a :27.4 third quarter (1:24.4)
kept him at bay as All Bets Off owned a length-and-a-half lead in the lane.
Dream Out Loud N took his shot from the pocket, but missed a neck in 1:52.2.
Season-debuting Texican N (Eric Carlson) was third, with Duel in the Sun (Mark
MacDonald) and a ’16-bowing P H Supercam (Jason Bartlett) rounding out the
payees.
For second
choice All Bets Off, a 5-year-old son of Bettor’s Delight co-owned (as Burke
Racing) by (trainer) Ron Burke, Frank Baldachino, Weaver Bruscemi and
Panhellenic Stable, it was his first win in a pair of seasonal starts. The
exacta paid $29.20, with the triple returning $216.
The Raceway’s
live season continues Monday night (first post 7:10 PM), with the opening round
of the Petticoat Pacing Series (3- and 4-year-old fillies and mares).
