BY FRANK DRUCKER,
Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS,
NY, Sunday, November 20, 2016—After nearly doing it with a 73-1 number a race
earlier, driver Jordan Stratton won his 3,000th career race Sunday
afternoon.
Stratton
teamed with Bingo Queen ($7.70) for a powerful, first-up Yonkers Raceway
victory in the $21,600, second-race trot. The pair negotiated the
mile-and-a-quarter distance in 2:29 en route to a 2¾-length win.
Stratton nearly blew up the tote board in the late-morning opener, missing a
hard-charging head in the featured Open Handicap Trot.
“I
appreciate the number, probably more than my family does,” Stratton said. Then,
in a rather bold assumption, he offered that “they love me anyway.”
The
affable 29-year-old Stratton, regular chauffeur of George Morton Levy Series
winner Bit of a Legend N, was joined in the winner’s circle presentation by his
brother, Cory, a pretty fair horseman in his own right.
Jordan
Stratton has earned $45 million in purses in a career which began in 2006. His
225 wins place him fifth in this season’s local driver standings.
