BY FRANK DRUCKER,
Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS,
NY, Monday, July 18, 2016—Yonkers Raceway Monday night hosted the $150,425 New
York Sire Stakes Clyde Hirt Pace for 2-year-old fillies.
Five
divisions went at it, with a ‘dead-heat’ for fastest femme.
Odds-on
numbers Planet Rock ($2.90) and Robin J ($2.10) both owned by Ken Jacobs,
trained by Linda Toscano and driven by Tim Tetrick, won in life-bests 1:56. The
first two events went for $29,725 and $30,325, respectively.
The
former is a daughter of Rock N Roll Heaven, while the latter is a Roll with Joe
lass. The ma’ams have each won two races in as many tries begin their careers.
Toscano
and Tetrick did it a tick slower in the fourth ($30,325) event as pole-sitting
Worlds Apart ($2.20) opened through the lane in win her purse debut by 8¼
lengths. The daughter of Art Major, 2-for-2 to begin her career, is co-owned by
the stable quartet of Radio Racing, Bay’s, South Mountain and Little E.
The
fourth puny parimutuel of the sire stakes evening was a final-gathering
($29,725) Roaring to Go (Brett Miller, $2.70). She matched World Apart’s 1:56.1
effort with a snappy, uncovered :27.4 third quarter. The margin was 4¾ lengths
for “Roaring’.
The
daughter of Art Major, owned by Frank Chick and trained by Kevin Lare, is now
2-for-3 in her early going.
Jordan
Stratton had his sire stakes moment in the sun (it was night racing, but play
along) with a first-up That’s How We Roll ($19.20), taking the third ($30,325)
event in a maiden-busting 1:56.4. Trainer Ray Schnittker co-owns the Art Major
miss with Mary Kinsey and Steven Arnold.
