BY
FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY, Friday, August 18, 2017—Favored
Sell a Bit N (Jordan Stratton, $4.40) proved the fastest femme Friday night
(Aug. 18th), winning Yonkers Raceway’s $55,000 Filly and Mare Open
Handicap Pace.
Away alertly from assigned post position No. 5, Sell a Bit N worked around
second choice Delightful Dragon (Brent Holland) just after a :27.3 opening
quarter-mile. The track, which had taken on water earlier in the card, wound up
yielding equal halves (:57, 1:25.3, 1:54).
That was swift enough for the eventual
victress, who held off a stubborn, two-move try by Regil Elektra to win by a
neck. Delightful Dragon was a pocket third, with Sail to the Beach (Dan Dube)
and Lispatty (George Brennan) rounding out the payees…the quintet separated by
just two lengths at the wire.
For Sell a
Bit N, a 7-year-old Down Under daughter of Julius Caesar owned by Harry von
Knoblauch Stables and trained by Peter Tritton, it was her second win in 14
seasonal starts. The exacta paid $36.80, with the triple returning $75.50.
