BY
FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY, Monday, May 2, 2016—The
phrases ‘Jason Bartlett’ and ’80-1’ aren’t usually uttered together, but those
folks who successfully connected the dots were handsomely rewarded Monday
evening.
Yonkers Raceway’s leading driver and
Hearts Wild blew up the tote board (figuratively, since it didn’t actually go
anywhere), rallying from sixth entering the lane for a $163 upset in the
$14,000, second-race pace.
From post position No. 4, she defeated
Mother of Art (George Brennan) by a nose, with 60-1 Lilmisstalksalot (Dan Dube)
third.
Hearts Wild, a 3-year-old daughter of
Western Ideal co-owned by William & Barbara Ethier and trained by Scott
Blackler, had make an early break in last week’s local debut. Her second win in
a dozen seasonal/career starts matched her previous life-best effort.
She led a
$514 exacta and $2,845 triple, enhanced when 1-5 favorite Soulmate Hanover
(Scott Zeron) caved and wound up sixth.
