FIELD FINALIZED FOR YONKERS INTERNATIONAL TROT

BY FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway

YONKERS, NY, Friday, September 30, 2016—In this election season, the votes have been counted…for Yonkers Raceway’s International Trot.

The complete field of 10 world-class invitees/acceptances for the million-dollar event, set for Saturday afternoon, Oct. 15^th, is now final. The seats at the table (alphabetically), with country of representation… 

BBS Sugarlight – Norway

Explosive de Vie – Sweden

Flanagan Memory – Canada

Hannelore Hanover – USA (mare)

Jonesy -- Finland

Oasis Bi -- Italy
On Track Piraten -- Sweden

Resolve – USA

Ringostarr Treb -- Italy

Tano Bork – Denmark

Three of the entrants – BBS Sugarlight (4^th), On Track Piraten (7^th) and Oasis Bi (5^th) competed in this race a season ago. Last season’s winner, Norway’s Papagayo E, is injured and unable to defend his title.

The international horses are scheduled to arrive in New York next Wednesday (Oct. 5^th), and after a couple of days of quarantine, get Raceway-situated Friday (Oct. 7^th). 

Please note post time for the rare afternoon program is 1:10 PM, with International Trot No. 38 set to go at 3:20 PM (numbers of races on card and race number of International Trot both TBA).

Also note and make use of the race-dedicated website, www.InternationalTrot.com as an excellent resource.

The race is to be drawn Tuesday, Oct. 11^th, along with a pair of $250,000 Invitationals (1¼-mile trot [10 horses] and flat-mile pace, [eight horses]).

            More information regarding all these races in the coming days.