BY FRANK DRUCKER,
Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS,
NY, Friday, November 11, 2016—A three-peating Krispy Apple (Jason Bartlett,
$5.20) easily disposed of her rivals Friday night, winning Yonkers Raceway’s
$45,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace.
In
play from behind the eight-ball, the 8-5 favorite worked around Tessa Seelster
(George Brennan), making the lead just before a :27.3 opening quarter-mile. Then, she just toyed with ‘em
(:57, 1:25, 1:52.4), a 2½-length lead into the lane becoming three lengths at
the wire.
Lispatty (Mark MacDonald) snuck inside to grab
second over ‘Tessa,’ with Regil Elektra (Brian Sears) and 41-1 rank outsider
Motu Moonbeam N (Tyler Buter) coming away with the remainder.
For Krispy Apple, an 8-year-old, $1.8 million
daughter of Western Ideal co-owned by Bamond Racing and Joseph Davino and
trained by Jeffrey Bamond Jr., it was her ninth win in 22 seasonal starts. The
exacta paid $29.60, the triple returned $127 and the superfecta paid $404.50.
