BY
FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY, Tuesday, March 22, 2016—Round
2 of Yonkers Raceway’s series for the adult table set, the Blue Chip Matchmaker
and George Morton Levy Memorial Series, has been drawn.
Friday night, it’s the Matchmaker, with
three consecutive (races 6 through 8), $40,000 events again featuring some of
the sport’s best pacing mares.
The final division collides two of last
week’s first-leg winners in Al Raza N (Jordan Stratton, post 4) and Lady Shadow
(Corey Callahan, post 6). The former benefitted from a quick pace to close in a
season’s-best 1:52.3. The 6-year-old daughter of Gotta Go Cullect has won two
of her three seasonal starts, while the latter, a 5-year-old Shadow Play
miss, won her season’s debut wire-to-wire in 1:53.4.
Last week’s other winner, 39-1 upsetter
Mach it a Pair (George Brennan, post 2), landed in this week’s opening event.
The 6-year-old Mach Three miss, who prevailed by a nose in 1:53.2, has his the
board in five of her six seasonal efforts.
Saturday night finds five $50,000
divisions (races 5,7 through 10) of the Levy, with all six, opening-round winners
back for more.
Two of them—Bit of a Legend N (Stratton,
post 4) and Mach it So (Tim Tetrick, post 6)—landed in the third division. Bit
of a Legend N, a 7-year-old Down Under son of Bettor’s Delight, has three wins
and two seconds in five North American tries, including last week’s 1:52
effort. Mach it So, a 6-year-old Mach Three gelding, won last Saturday’s ’16
debut in 1:51.3.
Lucan Hanover (Brennan, post 6) leads the
opening grouping after wiring last week’s rivals in 1:51.3. The 6-year-old Western
Ideal gelding is 3-for-3 to begin his season.
Last week’s hundred-dollar puzzler, Texas
Terror N (Matt Kakaley, post 4), again tries to tickle the tote board, in this
week’s second division. The 8-year-old Down Under Western Terror gelding has
hit the board in seven of his nine seasonal starts. Foiled Again (Yannick
Gingras, post 3) also drew into this event after a fourth-place effort in his
series/season debut a week ago
P H Supercam (Jason Bartlett, post 8), a
two-move 1:53.1 winner in his series opener from a seven-hole, did himself one
venue worse in the evening’s fourth division. The 9-year-old Million Dollar Cam
gelding, with a win in two seasonal starts. is making his 175th
career start Saturday.
Take it Back Terry (Brennan, post 1) looms
a mini mutuel in the final grouping on the heels of a 1:51.2 effort in Round 1.
It was the first win in two ’16 tries for the 7-year-old Western Terror
gelding, who becomes a career millionaire sooner rather than later.
