BY FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity
Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS,
NY, Friday, June 17, 2016—A down-the-road Krispy Apple (Jason Bartlett, $6.10)
now has 44 career victories, few as handily as Friday night after winning
Yonkers Raceway’s $45,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace.
Easily
negating her mandated outside post position No. 7, the slight favorite looped
Mach it a Par (Brian Sears) en route to the lead. She worked around
Pasultimatedelite N (George Brennan) before a :28.4 opening quarter-mile.
After a rated 58-second intermission, Mach it a
Par made her second move, extricating from fourth. That one barely engaged the
leader in and out of a 1:25.3 three-quarters.
Entering the lane, Krispy Apple opened 2½
lengths, then ran up the margin. She defeated a second-over Hidden Land (Brent
Holland) by fourth lengths in 1:52.2. Mach it a Par salvaged the bottom of the
ticket, with Pasultimatedelite N and Al Raza N (Mark MacDonald) rounding out
the payees.
For Krispy Apple, an 8-year-old daughter of
Western Ideal co-owned by Bamond Racing and Joseph Davino and trained by Jeff
Bamond Jr., it was her fourth win in 10 seasonal starts (career earnings now
nearing $1.7 million). The exacta paid $56.50, with the triple returning $280.
The win the feature was just one of Bartlett’s
six-pack during the 11-race program.
