BY
FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY, Friday, August 11, 2017—A
pocketed Jag Out (Brent Holland, $18.60) proved best Friday night (Aug. 11th),
winning Yonkers Raceway’s $55,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace.
Away alertly from post position No. 4, Jag Out made the first lead, then gave
it up to HP Sissy (Dan Dube) before a :27.2 opening quarter-mile.
It was a :56.3 intermission before Freeze
Out (Joe Bongiorno) moved first, from sixth. He then was relegated to a poor
tow from just-over-even-money favorite Darlinonthebeach (Brian Sears). That one
did nothing for the back markers as HP Sissy found a 1:24.4 three-quarters.
‘Sissy’ owned a length-and-a-half lead in
the lane, but Jag Out moved out and moved by. The margin was a neck in a
season’s-best 1:53.2. Betabcool (George Brennan) offered good pace on both ends
of the mile to grab second, with HP Sissy, Arielle Lynn (Eric Goodell) and
Newborn Sassy (Jordan Stratton) settled for the remainder.
Darlinonthebeach wound up sixth.
For sixth
choice Jag Out, a 5-year-old daughter of American Ideal co-owned owned by
(trainer) Nick Surick, J L Benson Stable and Bert Hochsprung, it was her fourth
win in a dozen seasonal starts. The exacta paid $85.50, the triple returned
$601 and the superfecta paid a palindromic $2,552.
