BY
FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY, Saturday, August 12,
2017—Somewhere in L A (Jason Bartlett, $7.70) avoided the third-turn
happenstance Saturday night (Aug. 12th), winning Yonkers Raceway’s
$55,000 Open Handicap Pace.
Passive from assigned post position No. 6, Somewhere in L A watched as Luck Be
Withyou (Eric Goodell) ‘won the break,’ making the lead directly outside of
11-10 fave Sunfire Blue Chip (Dan Dube).
The former, not in a giving mood, then
hung the latter though testy early fractions of :26.1 of :54.3. However, passing the half and moving toward
the three-quarters, Lucky Be Withyou had none of his own. He made a filthy
break, wiping out himself and the parked-out ‘Sunfire’.
A three-holed
Dynamic Youth (Carl Cito Jr.) then found himself leading at the 1:23.2
three-quarters, but the back markers were closing in. Somewhere in L A rolled
wide around Sunfire Blue Chip opening a length-and-quarter lead into the lane.
He won by a
length-and-a-quarter in 1:52. Second went to an inside dive of 42-1 Polak A
(Greg Merton), with Evenin’ of Pleasure (George Brennan), Bit of a Legend N
(Jordan Stratton) and P H Supercam (Brent Holland) rounding out the payees.
For third choice Somewhere in L A, a
6-year-old Somebeachsomewhere co-owned by D’Elegance Stable IX, Carmen
Iannacone, T L P & Gandolfo Stables, it was his 10th win in 25
’17 tries. The exacta paid $139.50, the triple returned $1,163 and the
superfecta paid $10,118 (base $2 payout).
Yonkers offers up
the fifth of eight consecutive Sunday matinees (Aug. 13th), with a
first post of 12:30 PM.
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