BY
FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY, Friday, May 5, 2017—Favored
Sell a Bit N (Jordan Stratton, $4.70) lasted on the lead Friday night (May 5th)
, winning Yonkers Raceway’s Cinco de Mayo $55,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap
Pace
In play from post position No. 4, Sell a
Bit N worked around Delightful Dragon (catch-driver Eric Goodell), then
finished (:27.4, :57.2, 1:25.3, 1:54.1) what she started. Sell a Bit N defeated
the ‘Dragon’ by a neck, with a two-move Dublin Rose (George Brennan) third.
Caviart Cari Ann (Dan Dube) and Certified Ideal (Brian Sears) settled for the
remainder.
For Sell a
Bit N, a 7-year-old Down Under daughter of Julius Caesar owned by Harry von Knoblauch
and trained by Peter Tritton, it was her fifth win in nine seasonal starts. The
exacta (two wagering choices) paid $17.40, the triple returned $82 and the
superfecta paid $357.
It turned out that fives were indeed wild
for the fifth day of the fifth month. In addition to the ol’ double-nickel
purse for the feature, March Awareness (Mark MacDonald, $6.60)—horse No. 5 in
race No. 5—rolled home by seven lengths in a $27,000 trot (1:56).
